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SILVANA MALTA GROUP: CRAVO E CANELA
Olufsen Records DOCD 5501 2001
SONGS
1. Feitiço da Vila 5.39 - featured song
2. Beagá 3.25 - featured song
3. Quando te Vi (Till There Was You) 4.30
4. Morro do Chapéu 3.06
5. Cravo e Canela 2.37 - featured song
6. Encontros e Despedidas 3.18
7. Sentado a Beira do Caminho 5.18
8 . Chuva, Suor e Cerveja 3.42
9. Sempre 5.40
10. Em Minas 3.37
11 Ponta de Areia 1.41
MUSICIANS
Silvana Malta, Per Gade, Steen Rasmussen, Torben Westergaard, Jonas Johansen, Afonso Correa, Jacob Andersen, Special guest: Hans Ulrik
REVIEW – THE SOFT BRAZIL, Jyllands-Posten
The Brazilian singer Silvana Malta - resident in Denmark - has just released a very fine and cool CD with bossa nova and soft samba music. She sings songs composed by notabilities such as Milton Mascimento and Caetano Veloso as well as her own compositions.
REVIEW – BRAZILIAN-DANISH, Politiken
On the Brazilian (resident in Denmark) singer Silvana Malta’s excellent CD »Back to Brazil« released in 1997 most of the songs were composed by Malta herself and her husband, the bass guitarist Torben Westergaard. On her new - not less excellent - CD »Cravo e Canela« the couple does not contribute with so many songs.
This time several Brazilian song writers are represented which makes the music more multicoloured. In Milton Nascimento’s »Cravo e Carnela«, Caetano Veloso’s »Chuva, Suor e Cerveja« and Silvana Malta’s »BeagÔøΩthe music appears in the most unbridled way, whereas in Meredith Wilson’s »Quando te Vi« and Roberto Carlos’ »Sentado a Beira do Caminho« one recognizes the dreamlike, sensual mood being characteristic for Antonio Carlos Jobim’s compositions, and if you listen carefully to Westergaard’s »Em Minas« it is impossible to find a Danish tone which is not in the most beautiful way combined with the Brazilian tradition.
Silvana Malta’s voice does not take the big dramatic movements, and exactly this is why her interpretation seems so sincere, which is quite in harmony with the distinguished and just right muted accompaniment, spiced with fine solo features by Per Gade on guitar, Steen Rasmussen on keyboards and Hans Ulrik on clarinet.