Customer Reviews

Tribalistas

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This will always be the CD that reminds me of my recent, first trip to Bahia (I intend to go back every year.) Warm, lush, gorgeous music. Track #3 is very popular in Brazil right now. Buy this CD - I saw a ton of bootlegged copies being sold on the beaches, so I fear Tribalista is not making the money they could be, and they deserve it.

I ordered the DVD from somlivre.com and besides having all the great music, it offers an unobtrusive, intimate look at the environment in which the music was created - having watched the DVD, I can tell you that contrary to the previous reviewer's comments, Carlinhos Brown contributes a lot to what you hear on Tribalistas.

Tribalistas is such a fantastic recording! There are five or six instant hits and several dreamy songs. The songs are so catchy you won't be able to get them out of your head. Marisa's vocals are her best yet and she always works so well with Carlinhos and Arnaldo. The lyrics are unique (get a Brasilian friend to translate them for you!) and the melodies charming. Like the best of Brasilian music it feels like they are playing at your own party! Don't miss this one!

A lovely little album! The band's name and all-star cast are an apparent tribute to the Veloso-Gil-Bethania-Costa mid-1970s supergroup, Doce Barbaros (The Sweet Barbarians), but in this case the musicians, neo-tropicalistas Arnaldo Antunes, Carlinhos Brown and Marisa Monte, go for tender restraint, rather than wild excess. It's a remarkably gentle, dreamy album, with an interesting blend of voices and styles. If I had to characterize it, I'd say this sounds more like an Arnaldo Antunes album than anything else, with its off-kilter sensibility and unhurried style. Monte, who put this album out on her own Phonomotor label, plays the central vocal part, though, with both Antunes and Brown complimenting her in unusual harmony parts. Carlinhos seems a little lost in the mix, at least his former trademark Afro-Brazilian percussion is hardly as prominent as on other albums. All in all, this is a very pleasant, inventive and multi-textured record, well worth checking out!

This CD is playing in every store, restaurant, radio station in Brazil right now. It is fantastic, so sweet and funny and smart. The three singers really get along well together. Let's hope that this is not their last CD - although they suggest that it is in their last track, "Tribalistas," where they threaten to "desintegrar no proximo momento."!

Tribalistas by three great musicians: Marisa Monte, Arnaldo Antunes y Carlinhos Brown is a rare and unique album. Love buying at Amazon!

Arnaldo Antunes is clearly a unique character. His voice, several octaves below most people's, sounds very cool and unique. His arrangements ideas and instrumentation s and totally unique and a refreshing break from the normal sounds of music.

This is an incredible cd... even for those who do not speak portuguese, their style of music is incredible! I have seen them live and they are an incredible show to watch.

Finally they made their partnership official. Do not take this album as a new "tropicalist" movement. Forget "Mary Cristo". Just enjoy the good musical teamwork. The voice of Marisa, the poetry of Arnaldo and the freshness & rhythm of Brown. A must have!

Arnaldo, Marisa and Brown did a wonderful job.