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Morelenbaum²/Sakamoto

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Collaborative project featuring Brazilian musicians Jaques and Paula Morelenbaum with Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto; celebrated for the album Casa, an intimate reinterpretation of Jobim's songs recorded at the Jobim home.

Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer and musician, co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra, and a prolific soundtrack composer (including Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence). Jaques Morelenbaum is a Brazilian cellist/arranger; Paula Morelenbaum is a Brazilian vocalist who worked with Jobim. Reviews note the Casa sessions were recorded at Jobim's home and feature piano (Sakamoto), cello (Jaques) and vocals (Paula). David Sylvian is a frequent Sakamoto collaborator mentioned in reviews.

DeBaser reviews highlight Casa as an intimate, chamber-like bossa nova tribute recorded at Jobim's home. Sakamoto's versatility and eclecticism are praised across Heartbeat and Chasm. The Morelenbaums' cello and Paula's voice are repeatedly singled out for emotional depth.

For:Fans of bossa nova, chamber arrangements, Ryuichi Sakamoto's eclectic work, and listeners who prefer intimate acoustic reinterpretations.

 If it is true, as one of its main interpreters claimed, that Tango is "a sad thought that is danced", then Bossa nova could be defined as a dance that turns into poetry, a movement of the body that inevitably becomes reflection, contemplation.

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 The sudden melancholic discourse of Paula Morelenbaum's voice in "As praias desertas" is a gush of melancholy in the stomach, perhaps unbearable if listened to at the wrong moment… like when you've lost her…

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 Today I fished out from my musical hat a CD from 1991, "Heartbeat" by the maestro Sakamoto San.

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 Sakamoto continues with this album, undaunted, along his path as a well-rounded musician, heedless of those who accuse him of being too scattered, of those who reproach him for his descents into the "underbelly" of popular music.

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