Elis, Como & Porque

1. Aquarela Do Brasil/Nega Do Cabelo Duro

2. O Sonho

3. Vera Cruz

4. Casa Forte

5. Canto de Ossanha

6. Giro

7. O Barquinho

8. Andança

9. Récit de Cassard {Do Filme "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg"}

10. Samba da Pergunta

11. Memórias de Marta Saré

Elis, Como & Porque,Elis Regina,Polygram Brazil,Brazilian Pop,Int'l & World Music,MPB

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Elis, Como & Porque/In London Elis Regina Manufacturer: Universal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000MV92Z6 Release Date: 2007-04-02

Average customer rating: BREATHTAKING AND ELECTRIFYING! An Essential Elis Regina Recording!! Hot Elis Regina with a swinging Trio!

Como E Porque Elis Regina Manufacturer: Universal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Elis Em Pleno Verao Elis & Tom Elis 1973 Falso Brilhante ASIN: B00006LW8S Release Date: 2002-09-18

Tracks:

1. Aquarela Do Brasil / Nega Do Cabelo Duro
2. O Sonho
3. Vera Cruz
4. Casa Forte
5. Canto De Ossanha
6. Giro
7. O Barquinho
8. Andanca
9. Recit De Cassard
10. Samba Da Pergunta
11. Memorias De Marta Sare

Customer Reviews:

BREATHTAKING AND ELECTRIFYING! An Essential Elis Regina Recording!!.......2005-11-25

Five MAXIMIZED Stars!! Brilliantly Arranged, Totally Overpowering Performances by Brazil's late SuperDiva!! Heck, just give it a Thousand Stars!! A vocal performance for the ages!! Elis Regina at her most powerful and affecting, 'uping the ante' on many songs she had previously recorded. The more I hear Elis Regina, the better she gets. I'm currently a third of the way through her discography (14 recordings) and she's positively unrelenting in her vocal art and excellence. Now I fully understand the tremendous sense of loss that the country of Brazil continues to experience a full two decades after her accidental death, why days after her death 100,000 grief-stricken Brazilians filled a soccer stadium to mourn her passing and sing her songs, and why her recordings continue to fly off the shelves. Like this brilliant recording, for example. It's mostly in beautiful, sensual Portuguese except for one song in French, but the words are almost besides the point of her incredible singing and ability to communicate through music.

The song "Aquarela Do Brasil" (Watercolors of Brazil) is excitingly re-cast with strings and an extra-sensitive Elis wringing every nuance from it, and adding the characteristic 'batacuda' "Nega Do Cabelo Duro" as the companion piece, with Elis adding "crickets" as her own integral sound effect. "O Sonho" (The Dream), also known in the USA as "MoonDreams", is a sizzling version that tops any that I have heard, including a stupendous English version. She multi-tracks her voice on Edu Lobo's "Casa Forte", creating fascinating echoes that have her eerily 'answering herself', and in the process she cuts the definitive version of this classic. "Canto De Ossanha" (Song of Ossanha- African diety) is an extention of the version on Elis' "Aquarela Do Brasil" CD, creating a greater sense of intensity and urgency that erupts on the bridge of the song. The French classic "Recit de Cassard" (Watch What Happens) from "The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg" movie, is sung in dead-on French in as good a version of this classic as you will ever hear, heavy with nuances and a great atmospheric orchestral arrangement. "Samba De Pergunta" (Question Samba) is plain and simply drop dead beautiful singing of a short, gentle samba. "Memorias De Marta Sare" demonstrates how she can unrelentingly drive both the song and her group to musical perfection. "O Barquinho" (The Little Boat) is a great funky afro-cuban version of that classic.

"Vera Cruz" is one 'Piece D'Resistance' that is an iNCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE of this Milton Nascimento classic. Using a perfect arrangement and a stunning orchestral performance (note the driving conga in the beginning and how the drummer savagely drives the orchestra using Art Blakey-like rim shots throughout), Elis takes the song through hairpin twists and turns, spinning nuances unseen before in any previous version, riding the crest of the orchestra's crescendo, charging and slowing down, charging again and then daringly bringing the orchestra to a full stop, only to restart the entire sequence again. One word: BREATHTAKING! She uses her voice the way she did on her first hit "Arrastao" (The Trawling Net), wringing incredible angst from the song and the arrangement in a way that places her squarely AMONG THE BEST FEMALE SINGERS OF ALL TIME, regardless of genre. Clearly one of her best performances ever and huge kudos to the orchestra and arrangements by Roberto Menescal. A MUST HAVE recording!

(Note:One wonders if the recording "Aquarela Do Brasil", with jazzman Toots Thielemans, came before or after this one. There are similar songs and arrangements shared between each, but Toots Thielemans is missing on this recording, giving Elis the lead all the way on those songs and adding some terrific new songs and performances. And she takes full advantage. Both recordings can be considered bookends to any comprehensive collection. Elis' sizzling, sultry ballad treatment of "O Barquinho" (The Little Boat) on the "Aquarela" CD is not to be missed, nor is "Corrida De Jangada" and "Voce". Buy both, there are huge differences in the songs and the performances)

Hot Elis Regina with a swinging Trio!.......2003-05-18

Always choosing the best musicians, Elis Regina had pianist Antonio Adolfo as the leader of the moment. This album includes Elis Regina's smash hit performance of a traditional samba titled "Nega do Cabelo Duro".

The ensemble is a piano-bass-drums trio.
A must-have album!

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Elis, Como & Porque Elis Regina Manufacturer: Universal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000EZ8BC0 Release Date: 2006-05-29

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Elis, Como e Porque Elis Regina Manufacturer: Universal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000060N9L Release Date: 2002-03-21

Tracks:

1. Aquarela Do Brasil
2. O Sonho
3. Vera Cruz
4. Casa Forte
5. Canto De Ossanha
6. Giro
7. O Barquinho
8. Andanca
9. Recit De Cassard
10. Samba Da Pergunta
11. Memorias De Marta Sare
12. Deixa (Bonus Track)
13. A Noite Do Meu Bem (Bonus Track)
14. Noite Dos Mascarados (Bonus Track)
15. Tristeza (Bonus Track)

Album Description

Japanese DSD remastered reissue for the late Brazilian jazz vocalist. Includes four bonus tracks, 'Deixa', 'A Noite Do Meu Bem (Le Nuit De Mon Amour)', 'Noite Dos Mascarados' (With Pierre Barough) & 'Tristeza'. 2002.

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring Four Bonus Tracks

Average customer rating: Hey, I like the arrangements...this IS a masterpiece She deserves better! genius singing and songwriting

Nada Sera Como Antes (Elis Interpreta Milton Nascimento) Elis Regina Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Folk | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000046UV Release Date: 1990-11-27

Tracks:

1. Nada Sera Como Antes (Nothing Will Be As It Was)
2. Morro Velho (Old Hill)
3. Cais (Pier)
4. Credo (Belief)
5. Conversando No Bar (Talking In The Bar)
6. Travessia (Crossroads)
7. Caxanga (Crab)
8. Vera Cruz
9. Cancao Do Sal (Salt Song)
10. Ponta De Areia (Sand Reef)

Customer Reviews:

Hey, I like the arrangements...this IS a masterpiece.......2003-10-23

This is one of the great Elis albums. I do know where the reviewer below is coming from in criticizing the arrangements, but what one might call kitsch, I call wonderfully quirky and an charming support to the inimitable voice of Elis. (In fact, there is almost a tropicalia weirdness to some of the arrangements.) I picked up a used copy of this CD in an Amsterdam shop and treasure it. She was one of the greats and any true collector of Brazilian music cannot be without this collection of masterpiece-level recordings. God Bless Elis Regina.

She deserves better!.......2002-05-08

Lousy sound and mix, the drums being the worst recorded. The amateurish arrangements don't help either. Ms.Regina needed the kind of playing & production that other great Nascimento interpreters such as Flora Purim & Kevyn Lettau have received on their recordings.

genius singing and songwriting.......2000-02-28

elis is a fantastic, gutsy singer and she has sung some amazing songs from the likes of jobim and others, and this compilation has as many if not more spine tingling moments then even her greatest releases.

i always found nascimentos songs a bit too involved, they never really got under my skin, but this changed that. "cais" is incredibly haunting "vera cruz" and "salt song" have great momentum and hooks that just steamroller over you. and as always, her voice tears at you with emotion, never over wrought, just enough. shudders! you rarely get this much for your overburdened c.d. dollar, what a shame that this disc has one of the ugliest covers i've ever seen and a truly unflattering picture of the otherwise beautiful elis regina.

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Elis, Como & Porque Elis Regina Manufacturer: Polygram Brazil ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008ESPW Release Date: 1997-04-01

Tracks:

1. Aquarela Do Brasil/Nega Do Cabelo Duro
2. O Sonho
3. Vera Cruz
4. Casa Forte
5. Canto de Ossanha
6. Giro
7. O Barquinho
8. Andan
9. Rt de Cassard [Do Filme "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg"]
10. Samba da Pergunta
11. Mems de Marta Sar

Average customer rating:

Nada Sera Como Antes (Elis Interpreta Milton Nascimento) Elis Regina Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Folk | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000DENFD Release Date: 2000-03-28

Tracks:

1. Nada Seromo Antes [Nothing Will Be as It Was]
2. Morro Velho [Old Hill]
3. Cais [Pier]
4. Credo [Belief]
5. Conversando No Bar [Talking in the Bar]
6. Travessia [Crossroads]
7. CaxangCrab]
8. Vera Cruz
9. Cancao Do Sal [Salt Song]
10. Ponta de Areia [Sand Ref]

Average customer rating:

Elis, Como & Porque Elis Regina Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000DER69 Release Date: 2000-03-28

Tracks:

1. Aquarela Do Brasil/Nega Do Cabelo Duro
2. O Sonho
3. Vera Cruz
4. Casa Forte
5. Canto de Ossanha
6. Giro
7. O Barquinho
8. Andan
9. Rt de Cassard [Do Filme "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg"]
10. Samba da Pergunta
11. Mems de Marta Sar

Salsa Music:

1. Feliz Navidad
2. Grandes Cantautores [Import]
3. Grandes Interpretes Andinos: Coleccion Disco De Oro [Import]
4. Grandes Interpretes Del Folklore [Import]
5. Grandes Interpretes Del Neo Folklore [Import]
6. Grandes Interpretes Tropicales [Import]
7. It's About Time
8. La Nueva Ola En El Festival Vina 2001 [Import]
9. Las 40 Mejores Cuecas Para Bailar [Import]
10. Las Numero Uno de la Radio

Salsa Music

salsa music

Salsa Music

Pure Speed Garage V.2 [Import]

Taneyev: String Trio In E/String Trio In D

The Prestige: Bluesville Sampler

Early Years, Vol. 1

The Specialist (Score)

Sus Más Grandes Exitos: 32 Canciones...32 Emociones [Import]

Unfinished Music #2: Life With The Lions

Turn #2

Tanzania Instruments

Strauss: Sonata For Violin and Piano/Respighi:Sonata For Violin and Piano

Talk To Me

Trio

The Awakening

Lettin' Go

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