Track Listing 1. Use Your Head - Money Mark 2. Corcovado - Everything But The Girl 3. Desafinado - Astrud Gilberto/George Michael 4. Non-Fiction Burning - P.M. Dawn/Flora Purim/Airto Moreira 5. Boy From Ipanema, The - Crystal Waters 6. Interlude 7. Seguranca - Maxwell 8. E Preciso Perdoar - Cesaria Evora/Caetano Veloso/Ryuichi Sakamoto 9. Interlude 10. Water to Drink - Incognito/Omar/Ana Caram 11. Dancing... - Milton Nascimento 12. How Insensitive - Antonio Carlos Jobim/Sting 13. Waters of March - David Byrne/Marisa Monte 14. Interlude 15. One Note Samba / Surfboard - Stereolab/Herbie Mann 16. Interlude 17. Black Orpheus Dub - Mad Professor 18. Maracatu Atomico - Chico Science/DJ Soul Slinger 19. Sambadrome - Funk 'N Lata 20. Refazenda - Gilberto Gil 21. Preciso Dizer que Te Amo - Cazuza/Bebel Gilberto
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes RED HOT + RIO, which raises money for AIDS research and relief, is a tribute to Brazilian bossa nova music. About half the tracks on RED HOT + RIO were written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. The album features collaborations between pop and alternative-rock stars and modern Brazilian musicians whose styles range from cutting edge to conventional. The resulting amalgam of bossa nova, hip-hop, samba, pop and too many other genres to mention makes for an idiosyncratic tribute to Jobim, the late godfather of bossa nova. Highlights include such once-in-a-lifetime alliances as the incomparably soulful Cape Verdean diva Cesaria Evora singing with Brazil's Caetano Veloso, backed by Ryuichi Sakamoto's atmospheric keyboards (on "E Preciso Perdoar"); and David Byrne's no-frills vocals converging with Marisa Monte's graceful voice on a Talking Headsy version of Jobim's classic "Waters of March." The lyrics to the latter song are especially poignant and prophetic: "It's a sliver of glass, it is life, it's the sun/It is night, it is death, it's a trap, it's a gun/The oak when it blooms, a fox in the brush/The knot in the wood, the song of a thrush."
Editorial Reviews ...an inspired, modern-sounding tribute, though few of the artists match the subtle beauty of Jobim's melodies... - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (10/18/1996)
...there is enough great material and inventiveness to ensure that RED HOT + RIO is never far from the short-list stack... The Beat
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