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Now by Astrud Gilberto

Now

Release Date: 1/1/2001

Recording Date: 1/1972

Tracks: 10

Length: 00:34:46 Hrs

Label: Castle Music Ltd.

Type: CD,DVA,LP

Genre/Styles:
Pop/Rock, Vocal, International, Bossa Nova, Vocal Pop, Brazilian Pop, AM Pop, Brazilian Traditions

Album Tracks (10)

Song Title
Length
1.
Zigy Zigy Za
04:03
2.
Make Love to Me
03:16
3.
Baiao
03:00
4.
Touching You
03:48
5.
Gingele
03:59
6.
Take It Easy, My Brother Charlie
03:22
7.
Where Have You Been?
03:05
8.
General da Banda
03:36
9.
Bridges
03:46
10.
Daybreak (Walking Out on Yesterday)
02:51

What the Critics Say

Two years after her underrated album on CTI Records, Astrud Gilberto's follow-up is her first attempt to be taken seriously, not as a singer -- she had that covered -- but as a songwriter, at a time when simply singing standards was seen as lacking. Her four songs on this ten-song album show she has a way with a melody, though obviously influenced by countrymen Milton Nascimento and Jorge Ben, and her producer Eumir Deodato. "Gingele" and "Zigy Zigy Za" are exactly the kind of riff-based tropicalismo that Ben and company were making popular around this time. "Take It Easy My Brother Charlie" is probably her best song here (covered over 20 years later by Kahimi Karie), though it is Ben who often gets the writing credit (here it's listed as Gilberto and associate producer David Jordan). Very few concessions are made to America; only "Daybreak (Walking Out of Yesterday)" comes from the pop world, with instrumentation and sound coming from south of the equator. ~ Ted Mills, Rovi

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