Memories, Chronicles and Declarations of Love

Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Brazilian superstar Monte's fifth album is arguably her most daring yet, as she makes her art-pop leanings more explicit than ever. Memories is also her most beautiful and sensual disc; while it doesn't easily fit a radio format, it nevertheless begs the question of why Monte isn't better known in the States. --Rickey Wright

Product Description
After Four Years of Waiting, Marisa is Back with a New Album. This CD was Recorded with the Writing Help of New and Old Friends. Highlights Are: 'agua Tambem E Mar', 'abololo', and 'o Que Me Importa'. ( a Cover Version of an Old Tim Maia Song.) --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Memories, Chronicles and Declarations of Love

Tracks:

Amor I Love You
Nao Va Embora
O Que Me Importa
Nao E Facil
Perdao Voce
Tema De Amor
Abololo
Para Ver As Meninas
Cinco Minutos
Gentileza
Agua Tambem E Mar
Gotas De Luar
Sou Seu Sabia

Amazon.com's Best of 2000

Brazilian superstar Monte's fifth album is arguably her most daring yet, as she makes her art-pop leanings more explicit than ever. Memories is also her most beautiful and sensual disc; while it doesn't easily fit a radio format, it nevertheless begs the question of why Monte isn't better known in the States. --Rickey Wright

Amazon.com Music Reviews

Marisa Monte, one of the strongest voices of Brazilian popular music, has one of the sweetest and most seductive voices you'll ever hear. But since the early 1990s, she's kept close ties with the downtown New York scene, connecting with people like David Byrne, guitarist Marc Ribot (who guests here), and producer Arto Lindsay, who's behind the board again for this record of romantic songs. Unlike some past outings, there are no unusual covers this time, just self-penned material and pieces by Jorge Ben, Carlinhos Brown, and other native talents. Monte manages to inject a wistfulness even into an outright love song like "Amor," and the despair of memory is never far below the surface throughout. Ranging from utterly acoustic to gently electric, Monte doesn't try to rock your world, but lets her voice slip into the bloodstream and the heart on songs like "Tema de Amor." If only all pop music were as good as this.... --Chris Nickson

Album Details

After Four Years of Waiting, Marisa is Back with a New Album. This CD was Recorded with the Writing Help of New and Old Friends. Highlights Are: 'agua Tambem E Mar', 'abololo', and 'o Que Me Importa'. ( a Cover Version of an Old Tim Maia Song.)

Customer Reviews:

A Perfect Song.......2007-03-18

I bought this CD back in 2000. I got my first Marisa CD in 1990. I have followed her career, dropped out for times, always when I reconnect I am amazed.

This CD has great moments, maybe a few songs miss but I won't mark them here. It has what I think is a perfect song.

If you love the music of Brasil, you must have this CD. That is all I have to say. It is the basis of her video DVD from Rio in 2000, and get that watch it to see her and how she performs. This concert is amazing.

The perfect song is not in the concert unfortunately. It is the last cut here. "Sou seu sabia." A song by Caetano Veloso. And perfectly Caetano.

Marisa sings it perfectly. She went to Italy to study to be an opera singer but decided that was not for her and returned to Brasil and began her great career. In this song, you hear her technique. I am an opera person, and I know that here the technique pays off. Her singing is just fantastic, I would say perfect.

Caetano's lyics are just as perfectly composed. His song becomes the exact thing he is trying to express. I can't say anymore. He has composed a song that expresses human desire through birdsong and Marisa perfectly signs it. This is lyrical and musical expression at its most intense. The arrangement here is lush, some people might misinterpret this. The expessive intensity is everywhere apparent, although.

One should buy this CD for that one track but there is so much else to buy it for.

BRAZILIAN SOFT MUSIC.......2006-07-24

Amazing songs... music to take a a moment for relax with the beautiful brazilian sounds...

Explore Brasil's finest voice.......2006-06-14

I truly agree with "wordsmule" review on this CD.

Marisa Monte shows us what love is all about brazilan style. Do not get me wrong, this is not "typical", folklore or "world like" music.. Brazil has its own contemporary dimmension in many fields including music... and this is so universal..lets not forget that through internet and Amazon we can have access to this expression that otherwise would be reserved to those priviligied to have the access to this treasures. I live in one of the many countries neighbouring Brazil and its still very hard (and expensive) to locally find brazilian music.

musica para todos.......2004-10-26

a lot of my brazilian friends don't like her voice on this cd, but as an american who's brazilian at heart, i have to say i love this cd...especially songs 2 and 4. i've listened to it so much now my cd skips.

brazil has given us the next joni mitchell.......2004-05-11

Marisa Monte is the real deal! one the most amazing records i have ever heard. a hauntingly beautiful record, drippiing with emotion and mood. i think i'm in love.

Memories, Chronicles and Declarations of Love

Average customer rating:

finally !

Memories, Chronicles and Declarations of Love
Marisa Monte
Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004UAJM
Release Date: 2000-06-01

Tracks:

Amor I Love You
Nao Va Embora
Que Me Importa
Nao E Facil
Perdao Voce
Tema De Amor
Abololo
Para Ver As Meninas
Cinco Minutos
Gentileza
Agua Tambem E Mar
Gotas De Luar
Sou Seu Sabia

Album Description

2000 release from the Brazilian sensation. Recorded with the help of new and old friends. Highlights include: 'Agua Tambem E Mar', 'Abololo', and 'O Que Me Importa'. ( a Cover Version of an old Tim Maia song). EMI

Customer Reviews:

finally !.......2000-07-01

ok, we had to wait a long time for the new album of marisa monte (we could enjoy work of her with carlinhos brown on his 'omelete man') but finally, it has arrived, marisa's new album... it's everything i expected and much more... for the first time, marisa monte plays the guitar (on the songs she has written or co-written). as always, she has got a little help from her musical 'friends' like arnaldo antunes, carlinhos brown... this is marisa at her best ! muito obrigado por sua musica marisa !

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