Artist: Male solo artist
Career: debut
Language: Portuguese
Genre: bossa nova
Marcio Faraco moved halfway across the world from his native Brazil (to Paris) to make his name as an excellent old-school bossa nova writer and performer (I always think singers in bossa nova should be called whisperers) and record this debut album. It’s Brazilian through and through, but maybe it evokes a Brazil that doesn’t exist anymore. Maybe that’s what he’s singing about on one of his excellent songs ‘Nostalgia’. Only Joao Gilberto gets to make records of this old fashioned hue anymore. It’s all centred on Faraco’s beautifully expressive classical guitar playing and world weary, warm singing (Chico Buarque duets on one track – a great singer as well, of course). Listen close and the arrangements are typically deep, though never dense or confusing: string and horn arrangements, bass and different percussion, a solo violin or accordion, piano in the background… From some angles you could argue the arrangements are the European contribution to the record – like some old French jazz crooner records, very sophisticated and suave, expressive in its elegance and stylishness. Typically for this kind of record, give it some room to lure you in. It’s not going to leap out and pull you in, it’s a more subtle type of allure, but it’s no less effective.
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