"Moondance" - Van Morrison
"Feel Good Inc." - Gorillaz
"Float On" - Modest Mouse
"Fisherman's Blues" - The Waterboys
"Lost Verses" - Sun Kil Moon
"In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" - Neutral Milk Hotel
"2 Sisters Drunk On Each Other" - Califone
"History Song" - The Good, The Bad, & The Queen
"The Dexterity Of Luck" - June Of '44
"Sulfer" - Red Red Meat
"The Snow Leopard" - Shearwater
"Spilled Milk Factory" - Ugly Casanova
[size=large]Artist: Marta Gomez Album: Cantos de Agua Dulce [Chesky Records][/size]
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Simply glorious.
Such amazing mid-range texture and beauty in this young ladies voice.
Highly recommended purchase.
Here's some review notes:
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Marta Gomez was born and raised in Cali, Colombia, and began her musical career performing as part of a choir in her hometown. In her teens she moved to the Colombian capital of Bogota. There, she got into doing recording for radio and TV commercials, but set her sights on bigger things. In 1999, she applied for and was accepted by the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she won a so-called "best achievement" scholarship. She released her debut CD, Solo Es Vivir last year, and it gained a good deal of praise by the local Boston press. And it was also apparently released in Colombia. Now, on Cantos de Agua Dulce she has received some national distribution in this country, and it is most deserved. Her music is a delightful blend of various less-heard South American influences, ranging from the Andean folk music of Peru to more upbeat sounds from Colombia and Argentina, in a laid-back setting of often just acoustic guitar and some hand percussion. But what makes this CD so enchanting is Ms. Gomez' remarkable voice. She shuns the sometimes overly dramatic sound of Latin American ballad singers for a pure, almost vibrato-less sound reminiscent of the style of Brazilian women singers like Monica Salmaso. Ms. Gomez sings in Spanish throughout, though in her style often one would expect to hear the Portuguese of the Brazilian vocalist. The material is mostly original, and she is joined by an intimate and sympathetic group of Boston-based South American natives, most from Argentina, including Julio Santillan on guitar, Franco Penna on percussion, Fernando Heurgo on bass, and Alejandra Ortiz on backing vocals. All are also associated with Berklee, either having graduated from the music school or teaching there.
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This particular Chesky recording of Marta is, again, something any fan of spatious and seductive latin music should own. It's sublime.
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