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San Francisco Chronicle, CD review >>
We often fall for intriguing records when the lyrics grab us. That's the key to many artists earmarked as "acquired" tastes -- their music may need a few listens before we can accept it, but if we like the words from the start, we're already halfway sold. Language barriers are the reason many imports don't sell well in America. The music has to arrest us immediately, since the sentiment can't. The sound of Brazilian thrush Mylene Nunes and her nocturnal future-samba does that. With arranging help from South American percussionist Ramiro Musotto, the album bridges alluring Brazilian rhythms with a contemporary ethos of dark tones, subtle sampling and quirky innovation. It's part trip-hop, part future cabaret and all Rio. And Mylene's melodious alto is so seductive, does it matter that one song title translates as "Contemporary Popcorn"? -- James Sullivan 11/16/03 >> go there
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