Time: 34:23
Size: 78.7 MB
Styles: Bossa Nova
Year: 2009
Art: Front
[4:03] 1. I Wish
[3:45] 2. That Was Yesterday
[4:34] 3. Sweet Sorrow 2
[5:06] 4. Sasha's Lullaby
[4:51] 5. Burden Of Choice
[3:33] 6. Fallin' In Love
[4:24] 7. You Are
[4:05] 8. Inspiracao
Brazil has a very special allure—not only for the Bacchanalian enjoyment of its Carnival in Rio, but for artists as well. Swinging musicians from all over North America have found the rhythmic seduction of the samba and the urbane swish and sway of bossa nova quite irresistible for decades. Lately, however, North American musicians appear to have discovered that seduction alone is not the prerequisite for making music in an authentic Brazilian idiom, even in the most popular one of all: the bossa nova.
Houston-born vocalist Kristine Mills is one of those North American musicians who has shown she can sashay with the best, with a moving record soaking in the spirit of Brazil's most popular urban export: bossa nova. The appropriately entitled Bossanovafied is a short yet beautiful collection of songs done in the rhythm of this urban mélange of jazz and samba, made internationally popular by Joao Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Mills and musicians like her appear to have also been influenced by a slew of other more contemporary musicians from Brazil's tropicalia movement.
Mills sings with child-like charm, recalling the guileless wonder of Blossom Dearie's annunciation and phrasing. Despite a flatter, slightly oblique attack, Mills' lyrical approach is to soak the words and phrases in the emotion of their poetry. Her sense of tone is sharp, and she can make subtle changes in inflection to alter the color of the song, with minute changes in breath or dallying over end-words or phrases to create just the effect she wants. ~Raul D'Gama Rose
Houston-born vocalist Kristine Mills is one of those North American musicians who has shown she can sashay with the best, with a moving record soaking in the spirit of Brazil's most popular urban export: bossa nova. The appropriately entitled Bossanovafied is a short yet beautiful collection of songs done in the rhythm of this urban mélange of jazz and samba, made internationally popular by Joao Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Mills and musicians like her appear to have also been influenced by a slew of other more contemporary musicians from Brazil's tropicalia movement.
Mills sings with child-like charm, recalling the guileless wonder of Blossom Dearie's annunciation and phrasing. Despite a flatter, slightly oblique attack, Mills' lyrical approach is to soak the words and phrases in the emotion of their poetry. Her sense of tone is sharp, and she can make subtle changes in inflection to alter the color of the song, with minute changes in breath or dallying over end-words or phrases to create just the effect she wants. ~Raul D'Gama Rose
Bossanovafied
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