Track Listing

1. Samba Da Bencao
2. August Day Song
3. Tanto Tempo
4. Sem Contencao
5. Mais Feliz
6. Alguem
7. So Nice (Summer Samba)
8. Lonely
9. Bananeira
10. Samba E Amor
11. Close Your Eyes
12. No Return

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42132 in Music
• Released on: 2002-08-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .17 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Daughter of the famed Brazilian pop and bossa nova singer João Gilberto, Bebel recalls her father's own classic recordings on Tanto Tempo, with a sure sense of pitch. Bebel Gilberto is hardly less charming for that, though, and the album entices with hushed passion. Relying mostly on acoustic instruments and some muted orchestrations, Tanto Tempo is nonetheless smartly paced to allow for some tasteful dance-club electronics to augment a few tracks, and ends on a celebratory note with "Close Your Eyes"--all but an invitation to Carnival. The current trend for things Brazilian should assure this disc a deservedly wide audience. --Rickey Wright

CD Description
'Tanto Tempo' is the debut album from Brazilian songstress Bebel Gilberto. The album takes the classic sounds of South American samba and bossa nova, and fuses them with modern electronica and Bebel Gilberto's sultry vocals. 'Tanto Tempo' features production work by the Thievery Corporation, Smoke City and Beastie Boys producer Mario Caldato Jr.

Customer Reviews

****10 Stars******* - The Most Perfect Summer Album
...The coolest, gentlest Bossa Nova, the most soothing voices, the greatest production, the most fantastic Brazilian tunes, old and new, - and you have Tanto Tempo and the wonderful Bebel Gilberto.

Bebel's step-mum is Astrud Gilberto (of Girl From Ipanema fame) her father is one of Brazil's most celebrated musicians, the girl has pedigree and boy does it show. The producer of much of the album is the legendary Suba (sadly no longer with us).

If you like chill-out music or latin or smooth laid back jazz you will love this - honestly one of the greatest albums of its the genre ever, possibly the best summer album ever. BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT!!...

Ok, enough evangelising....but honestly it is that good.

p.s. once you're into this...try "Sao Paolo Confessions" by Suba, anything by Smoke City, "Gemini" by Sven Van Hees, the last two albums by Silje Neergarde, Outro Lado by Zuco 103 and the Tanto Tempo remixes album, "Tributo" the Suba tribute album....all very cool.

Give it time and I think you will grow to love it.
When I first bought this I was a little disapointed, pleasant enough but it seemed to lack the strong songs / identity that characterised Astrud Gilberto and the other Bossa Nova pioneers.

However, I stuck it in the car CD player and as a result listened to it fairly frequently. Now I love it! The subtilty of the songs and arrangements takes time to make its mark but now I'm hooked. Bebel is a classic Bossa Nova singer but the more contemporary arrangements mean that this is no period piece.

Lovely, cool bossa nova, but......
In terms of pure style, this CD is great - cool, sexy, relaxing, it creates a mood that only this genre of Brazilian bossa nova can. Bebel has a good voice, and the production is crisp and has a good balance of pace and texture - you can't really fault it on those grounds. The sound of Bebel's Brazilian Portuguese is a pleasure to listen to. However, if, like me, you were brought up on Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, Elis Regina etc., what this CD lacks is any really great tunes. By two thirds of the way through, the cool starts to wear a bit thin as one starts to wonder where this CD is going. What was truly great about Astrud was that every song she sang was a classic - one rather forgave her breathy, out-of-tune singing because it all blended into the easy-going feel of the music, elevated by typically stunning impresario performances by the likes of Getz on the Saxophone. Bebel's work seems to lack any particularly special instrumental performances - the snippets of saxophone (?) heard on some tracks are stylised and processed, rather than genuine performances and this CD becomes a pastiche of an older, better latin jazz, where (so typical in music these days) style, production and mood dominate over melody and harmony.
This will be a great CD to put on as background music at a cocktail party or some such, but as listening music, there is something a bit lacking.