Author: GonÇalo Frota
View album and artist detailsArtist/band: |
Celso Fonseca |
Label: |
Wrasse Records |
Magazine Review Date: |
July/2019 |
For quite some time now, Celso Fonseca has led a solid career as an MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) singer-songwriter. His songs have been recorded by luminaries such as Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento, but Fonseca never quite made the major league on his own. Arguably his best album is Natural (from 2003 on Ziriguiboom), but even then Fonseca wasn't really climbing to any stratospheric artistic dimension. His bossa nova always carried a charming smoothness that nevertheless went by unnoticed.
Now 14 albums down the line, he releases this and it's an odd ‘turning point.’ Collaborating with Erika Ender, one of the co-writers of reggaeton hit ‘Despacito’, on the duet ‘Desliga a Luz’, Celso Fonseca enters the world of electronic music following in the footsteps of the DJs that intrigue him. But sticking to his guns at the same time, he delivers it with some subtlety. ‘Desliga a Luz’ is a clear example of this light bossa nova tinged with soul that becomes the standard for the album. ‘Like a Bossa Nova’, ‘Vem Prá Cuidar de Mim’ and Coldplay's ‘Sparks’ play by the same set of rules and tell us that Fonseca has not yet struck gold.
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