★★★★★
When Os Mutantes released their wonderful English language version of Caetano Veloso's "Baby" in 1971, they provided a small but perfectly formed map of what made Anglo-Brazilian music so appealing, a cosmopolitan and knowing mix of different linguistic and musical cultures that did not let its potential cheesiness eclipse its utter cool...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
When Tanto Tempo was released in 2000, Bebel Gilberto's voice became one of the most recognizable in the world. Her North American debut album brought Brazilian-flavored, down-tempo electronica to the global stage, becoming the third biggest selling Brazilian album in U.S. history. The follow-up, Bebel Gilberto (2004), added more acoustic ingredients to the swirl of electronica that so characterized Tanto Tempo...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
It's nearly shocking, the simplicity: a muddled, slightly granulated B&W as an album cover for Brazil¹s modern Athena. It's so basic, in fact, you have to stop and look; her soft smile, delicate sunbeams lighting the upper right corner, her name in pink and off-pink with the most basic Photoshop element¬ a solar flare ¬ lighting up "Be" in her name...
- www.afropop.org
2010-12-19
★★★★★
Bebel Gilberto's mother is a well-known singer in her native Brazil, while her uncle Chico Buarque is recognised as one of the country's first pop stars, so it'll come as no surprise that Gilberto was performing music on stage as early as the age of nine. Fast-forward to more recent times, and Bebel's debut release, 'Tanto Tempo', is regarded by many as one of the most successful records to come out of Brazil, having shifted over a million copies, including reaching gold status in the UK...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
If you can wade through the opening cover song, the annoying Baby, then Bebel's first solo record in four years is a beautiful collection of simple, acoustic, contemporary South American melodies. Like on the much-remixed Tanto Tempo, Bebel alternates between English and Portuguese, and between her own songs and those written for her by other international musicians...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Bebel Gilberto is the daughter of one of the big Brazilian bosses of the bossa nova, Joao Gilberto. She sounds a bit, no a lot like Astrid Gilberto ("The Girl From Ipanema") but deeper, with a shade more darkness in her tone, and sings in both Portuguese & English. The music is classic bossa nova style: picked acoustic guitar, gentle & restrained percussion, only Bebel G. is not trying to turn back the clock...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
There must be something in the Gilberto blood, though Bebel Gilberto may not thank me for pointing her illustrious lineage out. The daughter of Joao Gilberto, one of the actual inventors of the Bossa Nova sound, and step-daughter of Astrud Gilberto, the movement's premier ambassador, has some tough acts to follow. More feted by the Lounge cognoscenti in Europe than in her native Brazil, Bebel found international success with her first album Tanto Tempo four years ago...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
The remix album is so often abused as a potential sales generator, butin the right hands it can shed new light on an artists body of work and introduce the listener to a group of new artists. Brazilian singer and producer Bebel Gilberto is a good choice for such a treatment, despite having only two big albums to her name. Those two are true heavyweights however, Tanto Tempo introducing her worldwide, and her self titled follow-up topping world music charts for Amazon and iTunes...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Momento is Bebel Gilberto's third solo album, and proves her most personal to date. While it finds her continuing an exploration of her style through collaborative songwriting efforts, this appears to be the first record where creative veto is totally hers.As far as the home listener is concerned, its ideal role is a sultry accompaniment to a summer's day, with the windows thrown wide open...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
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