Noon Chill

Arto Lindsay | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 17, 1998)
• Original Release Date: March 17, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bar/None Records
• ASIN: B0000069SX
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151,713 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #13 in Music > Indie Music > Latin Music > Latin Pop

Track Listings

1. Noon Chill

2. Whirlwind

3. Simply Are

4. Blue Eye Shadow

5. Mulata Fuzarqueira

6. Ridiculously Deep

7. Anything

8. Gods Are Weak

9. Take My Place

10. Daily Life

11. Light Moves Away

12. Why Compare

13. Reentry

14. Auguri

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

For three albums now, Arto Lindsay has done his best to be a modern-day Antonio Carlos Jobim. Backed with subtle electronica sounds (yes, it's possible) and guitar, the ballads and bossa novas found on Noon Chill are some of his finest. Lindsay is at his best on tracks like "Simply Are," a jazzy number with great vocals that serenades your stereo speakers. Great stuff. --Jason Verlinde

Amazon.com

Even in Arto Lindsay's guitar skronk days, the tropicalia music he grew up with in Brazil remained a primary influence. Now with his recent solo albums, Lindsay's musical vision as a postmodern tropicalista has truly flowered. He tentatively explored bossa nova in 1996's O Corpo Sutil then boldly plunged forward by adding trip-hoppy beats and textures on 1997's Mundo Civilizado and to his remixes on Hyper Civilizado. This installment, Noon Chill, unites these adaptations and appropriations with his more discordant past. The results provide a climax for Lindsay's Brazilian trilogy, and his richest, most realized statement yet.

Noon Chill starts with spare guitar and percussion rhythms, then overlays off-kilter sound treatments to provide depth and drama without adding distraction. Lindsay's quiet, warm vocals make up in phrasing and melodic subtlety what they lack in power. Sensual and often startling, Noon Chill introduces the unlikely joys of avant-garde make-out music. --Roni Sarig

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellently tropic and hypnotic, March 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Noon Chill (Audio CD)

This is a beautiful album for the melancholy summer nights and spring evenings.. Beautiful album by a great lyricist. I highly recommend

5.0 out of 5 stars Fits right in with 3 other of his CDs, soothing, fun bossa nova, January 9, 2006

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Chris bct "music everyday" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Noon Chill (Audio CD)

And it's not just plain bossa nova. There's a bit 'o scamp to his music that shows up here and there in some songs. When I want to hear something that's both soothing and yet not sappy or mass market poppy, this is what I go to along with his other three great CDs: Subtle Body, Prize and Invoke, in that order. Unfortunately, I have not heard Mundo Civilizado which, based on reviews, fits right in with this category nor have I heard Salt which may not belong in this group.

If you know Arto Lindsay from being in DNA this is the opposite end of the musical spectrum from that grating guitar, I'd say exciting music of the last 70's, early 80's. This is for high quality relaxing of the mind. His voice is so perfect for this style of music, it's half of what's best about these records. The other half is the classic bossa nova style that's never stuffy or sounding like it's from a 50's record (not that that's a bad thing). [e-mail]

3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Primal Rythmn, March 10, 2000

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Jessica (Hawaii) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Noon Chill (Audio CD)

His small voice and powerfully rythmic sound reminds one of a pocket protector nerd who has stepped out from behind Windows to express his sexual frustration with acoustic guitars, conga, cymbals, Turkish drums, trombone, trumpet and more. For someone who wants to hear something powerfully different and doesn't mind a little noise.