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| Obrigado Brazil | 
 enlarge | Artist: Yo-yo Ma
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $18.97
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (33 reviews)
Sales Rank: 11238
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 89935
UPC: 696998993525
EAN: 0696998993525
ASIN: B00009ZKXD
Release Date: July 29, 2003
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 lovely January 3, 2004
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I like this very much. It seems oddly French to me. It makes me think a little of Jacques Brel--not his music, but the plaintiveness of some of his lyrics--and of certain French movies I've seen, one in particular I can't remember the name of. It has a mature restraint which should not be confused with a lack of soul; in fact, that restraint is the very manifestation of a particular depth of soul. It also has an uncanny three-dimensional quality to it. You feel that wherever the music is taking place and wherever the things the music is singing about are taking place, you are there.Those that complain, by the bye, that this is not an authentic representation of Brazilian music or some such thing should, as they say, "get a life". It's Yo-Yo Ma playing with Brazilian musicians. Okay? I regret that the jacket calls the last track a "bonus" track. I don't want my jacket marred with shabby marketing ploys.
Just MUSIC December 31, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yo-Yo has done many different styles of music some good and some very good. This to me is his best effort yet. This is not the usual style of music I listen to, but I'm always open to any style of music as long as it is MUSIC. So far Yo-Yo has introduced me to some incredible sounds that normally I'd never find. The thing is this chappy always does a very professional and inspired performance of whatever he decides is his next project. For me its a ride into the unknown and I've yet to be dissapointed.For recording it gets 92% and music 90%.
A commendable effort . . . November 27, 2003
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
. . . if a bit too refined and suffering from a faint whiff of carpetbagging. After being underwhelmed following the first couple of listens, I decided to step back and take stock. What was right here, and what was wrong? What's right is that this is a very listenable overview of Brazilian music, providing a staggeringly wide-ranging selection of this country's hugely diverse musical landscape--everything from Heitor Villa-Lobos to Pixinguinha to Camargo Mozart Guarnieri to Antonio Carlos Jobim to Egberto Gismonti. To even attempt to effectively present such a panorama requires a certain amount of chutzpah; to pull it off requires genius, which, I'm sorry to say, this disc lacks. Nevertheless, listeners unfamiliar with the richness of Brazilian music will find here a decent introduction. Alas, that's also what's wrong with it--it's little more than an introduction, a buffet, albeit, a not untasty one. To retain any kind of sense of musical continuity and flow in the presentation of such an enormous variety of indiginous musics, an artist must engage in a trade-off, a kind of dumbing down of the inherent wild eccentricities of this remarkable music, a relegation of the delicacies to the musical equivalent of a steam table. Yes, this disc is unfailingly pretty, but it lacks the madcap, unruly beauty that is at the heart of so much of this music. For example, Egberto Gismonti, a man who spent several years in the Northern Brazilian jungle researching the ethnic music of that region resulting in such spectacular discs as Danca Das Cabecas, Sanfona, and Sol Do Meio Dia has never sounded so sedate (although there's some of the old fire and earthiness in Salvador, the concluding cut). If this tempts listeners into exploring the glories and richness of Brazilian music, great. But it must be recognized that this is, at best, a sampler, and that it pales in comparison to the real thing. 3 and 3/4 stars would be about right, I'd say.
 By Bossa Nova standards, just ok November 8, 2003
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
The first time I listened to the CD, I thought, "Let's give it a few more tries...Let it sink in." It never did. The talent is there, but the creativity and passion are not. Bossa Nova is not applied classical music. Classical music is beautiful; Bossa Nova is beautiful. But they are different. There is far more exciting stuff out there in the Bossa Nova world. Kenny Barron's gig with Trio da Paz; or Morelenbuam(2)/Sakamoto -now that is Bossa Nova cello! Surely Yo Yo Ma could some day be a great Bossa Nova cellist, but until then, don't waste your money.
Marvelous Brazilian music November 3, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am from Brazil. This is five stars CD!!The buyer will understand that different cultures blended to creat a joyfull and dificult to perform music. 1 x 0, Brasileirinho and Carinhoso are called "choro" or "chorinho". This style of music is the root music for samba, that evoluted in the sixties to bossa nova. The performance and the music arrangment are superb. Mr Ma plays with grace, mood and flexible spirit exactly as the native Brazilians,usually impossible task for not natives. For all, who lived in Brazil, listening this CD will remind this marvelous country and you will be filled of "saudade".
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