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  |  Artist______________  Mia Doi Todd                                     |
  |  Title_______________  Floresta                                         |
  |  Label_______________  City Zen Records / CTZ007                        |
  |  Genre_______________  Latin                                            |
  |  Year________________  2014                                             |
  |  Release Date________  2021-05-08                                       |
  |  Street Date_________  2014-09-16                                       |
  |  Source______________  WEB                                              |
  |  Encoder_____________  MP3 / LAME                                       |
  |  Quality_____________  CBR 320kbps 44.1kHz                              |
  |  Size________________  89.7MiB                                          |
  |  Playtime____________  0:39:01                                          |
  |  URL_________________  https://amazon.com/dp/B00MHX03SC/                |
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  |  01. Misterios                                                   04:01  |
  |  02. Chovendo Na Roseira                                         03:25  |
  |  03. Menina, Amanha de Manha                                     03:43  |
  |  04. Luz do Sol                                                  04:42  |
  |  05. O Vento                                                     04:28  |
  |  06. Ewe                                                         03:02  |
  |  07. Portal Da Cor                                               04:04  |
  |  08. Segredos Vegetais                                           04:59  |
  |  09. Preciso Me Encontrar                                        03:13  |
  |  10. Cais                                                        03:23  |
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  |  Floresta (2014) is an album of covers of some of Mia's favorite        |
  |  Brazilian songs, featuring Fabiano do Nascimento on seven-string       |
  |  guitar and Mauricio Takara on percussion. It was recorded at Estudio   |
  |  el Rocha in Sao Paulo.                                                 |
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  |  The material encompasses the rainbow offering of Brazilian song.       |
  |  While there are classics, including Tom Jobim's "Chovendo Na Roseira"  |
  |  and Tom Ze's "Menina Amanha de Manha"-both sambas from different       |
  |  sides of the spectrum-there are also traditional songs such as "Ewe".  |
  |  Interestingly, despite the band's pedigree, there is an unmistakable,  |
  |  laid-back, L.A. post-hippie feel here. It's loose, but focused on      |
  |  nuance and essence.                                                    |
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  |  Todd's reading of Joyce's "Misterios" seamlessly melds bossa and MPB.  |
  |  While Caetano Veloso's "Luz du Sol" is as lithe as one might expect,   |
  |  the opposite is true in the two songs by Milton Nascimento. "Portal    |
  |  da Cor" is poignant and striking in a far more skeletal arrangement,   |
  |  while "Cais" is more structured than the songwriter's ballad from      |
  |  Clube Da Esquina, yet no less dreamy. There is a gorgeous version of   |
  |  Antonio Candeia's "Preciso Me Encontrar".                              |
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  |  With her airy, slightly smoky alto, Todd approaches this material      |
  |  with respect and as someone to whom these songs mean a great deal      |
  |  (check her reading of Dori Caymmi's profound "O Vento"). As an         |
  |  interpreter she sings like she wants to share these songs, rather      |
  |  than leave her mark on them. The academic construct of authenticity    |
  |  isn't an issue because her encounter with this material is             |
  |  emotionally true. Floresta is a gem. It brings the honesty of          |
  |  Brazilian music in all its harmonic and poetic richness to listeners   |
  |  without artifice or affectation.                                       |
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  |        YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?!        |
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