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| Encanto | 
 enlarge | Artist: Sergio Mendes
Label: Concord Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 4848
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 30278
UPC: 888072302785
EAN: 0888072302785
ASIN: B0012RLWSY
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | The Look of Love - featuring Fergie | | • | Funky Bahia - featuring will.i.am & Siedah Garrett | | • | Agua de Beber - featuring will.i.am | | • | Waters of March - featuring Ledisi | | • | Odo-Ya - featuring Carlinhos Brown | | • | Somewhere in the Hills (O Morro Nao Tem Vez) - featuring Natalie Cole | | • | Lugar Comum - featuring Jovanotti | | • | Morning in Rio | | • | Dreamer - featuring Lani Hall & Herb Alpert | | • | Y Vamos Ya (...Let's Go) - featuring Juanes | | • | Catavento (Catavento e Girassol) - featuring Gracinha Leporace | | • | Acode - featuring Vanessa da Mata |
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People en Español
Given his 40-year career, it's difficult to imagine that Sergio Mendes is still able to reinvent himself and create a new sound. But the record-breaking Brazilian musician doesn't seem to have any limits. Two years ago he came out with Timeless, which distinguished itself from his usual bossa-nova sensibilities and featured a fantastic mix of hip-hop and Latin Jazz. For Encanto, Mendes and his band, Brasil '6--collaborating with Fergie and will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas), Natalie Cole, and Herb Alpert--have made the perfect lounge CD, which fans of Bebel Gilberto and Ceu will certainly appreciate. --Ernesto Sanchez (People en Espanol  ) Con mas de 40 anos de carrera, es dificil pensar que Sergio Mendes todavia tenga la capacidad de reinventarse y crear un sonido distinto. Pero pareciera que para el brasileno de mayores ventas en el mundo no hay limite. Si bien hace dos anos presento Timeless, un disco completamente distinto a su tradicional bossa-nova, con una espectacular mezcla de hip-hop y latin-jazz, en Encanto, Mendes y su banda, Brasil '66--acompanados de la mano de Fergie y will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas), Natalie Cole, y Herb Alpert--logra el disco perfecto de "lounge," que los fans de Bebel Gilberto y Ceu sabran apreciar. --Ernesto Sanchez (People en Espanol )
Album Description
Brazilian music legend Sergio Mendes spins his remarkable magic on his newest recording, a bona fide classic! This is a kaleidoscopic album that underscores the maestro's ear for addictive melodies, as well as his ability to cast incredibly talented singers and musicians from all over the world
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Summery and enchanting. June 14, 2008
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
"Encanto" follows the highly acclaimed 2006 collaboration with will.i.am Timeless and with this latest release, Sergio takes us even deeper into Brazil, having recorded all the basic tracks in Rio and Bahia and finally finishing up in in California, where the studio band included Alphonso Johnson.
For "Encanto" (in Spanish for Enchantment), Mendes has also enlisted the formidable and enchantingly diverse talents of an array of guest musicians who hail from the world over.
Latin superstar Juanes from Colombia and multi-talented Carlinhos Brown & Vanessa da Mata from Brazil jostle alongside the foremost Japanese pop group Dreams Come True, Belgium's Zap Mama and Italian rapper Jovanotti.
This international cast is completed by the American stars Fergie, Siedah Garrett and Herb Alpert who is accompanied by his wife, original Brasil '66 singer, Lani Hall.
Old smoothie Mendes gets jiggy on a selection of bossa-favourites with a raft of guest stars including the ubiquitous Will.i.am and Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas, Natalie Cole and Herb Alpert et all...
This new album essentially is a cross between Mendes' soft, salsa-tinged melodies and modern day R'n'B.
The opening track, "The Look of Love" with rap/vocals by Fergie, is a deliciously moreish funky-fusion, and for the first third or so, the combination of Sergio's Rhodes with the hip-hopped production style is terrific.
Perhaps this new version of Burt Bacharach's "The Look Of Love", which Mendes had originally transposed to bossa nova heaven in 1967 is the boldest track on "Encanto".
This new interpretation, produced by Black Eyed Peas will.i.am, preserves the alluring melody of the original while bringing the song into the new millennium with crisp drum programming and a sexy rap by Fergie.
Then it goes all smooth jazz on you. Not bad, though.
Whether you are a Sergio Mendes fan especially the earlier stuff, Brasil 66, Equinox, etc or a Black Eyed Peas fan, or indeed R&B then there's something on this album to please everyone.
I'd say for such a challenging album there are only a couple of songs that are just to heavy hip hop for me.
The rest is a joy to listen to, if you are open minded about remixes and love to see what Sergio has been up to.
This album is a grower. The more I listen to it, the better it gets.
You will like it.
Picks of the album: "The Look of Love", "Waters Of March", "Dreamer", and "Somewhere In The Hills (O Morro Nao Tem Vez)".
Equinox
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Greatest Hits
The Very Best of Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66
The album debuts at # 1 of Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz and at # 60 of The Billboard 200 (Issue Date: 2008-07-12).
 Don't buy unless you enjoy using your "skip" button July 19, 2008
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
Hip hop elements just don't belong in Sergios music! Guest performner Fergie is atrocious and makes we want to stick a fork in my ear. The only good track is by Lani Hall/Herb Alpert. The rest can be banished to short memory. I wish Sergio would have hired a producer that understood what it is that makes his music stellar. Instead we get Producer Will I Am and his grossly misguided contemporary "flava". I've already traded my copy for the Brasil 66 "Equinox" cd. Listen to that album and you'll thoroughly understand my review.
 Mendes proves that you can go home again! July 20, 2008
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
Two years ago Sergio Mendes came back into the mainstream with the Grammy-winning "Timeless" co-produced by wil.i.am with songs featuring Erykah Badu, Stevie Wonder, Jill Scott, John Legend, Justin Timberlake and several other international stars. That album, by virtue of its all-star pop line-up and co-producer had a more hip-hop "flava" to it.
Though wil.i.am returns on "Encanto," most of the new album sounds remarkably like Mendes's classic albums from the 60's and 70's with updated technology. It's like a trip back in time when Brasil '66 was heating up the pop charts.
Ledisi, Carlinhos Brown, Jovanotti, Juanes, Gracinha Leporace, and Vanessa da Mata, along with Siedah Garrett, Natalie Cole and wil.i.am possess the right vocalizations to match Mendes' sultry trademark keyboards.
The benchmark of the album, however, is "Dreamer," featuring the legends Lani Hall on vocals and Herb Alpert on trumpet. That song is worth the price of the whole release.
Fergie's contribution is pretty good on the update of "The Look of Love" but that one pales in comparison to the original classic.
Sergio is back, yeah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! July 14, 2008
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
Tracks (Not available at Amazon's page)
1. The Look of Love - With Fergie -
2. Funky Bahia - With Siedah Garret -
3. Waters of March - With Ledisi -
4. Odo-Ya - With Carlinhos Brown -
5. Somewhere in the Hills (O Morro Nao Tem Vez) - with Natalie Cole -
6. Lugar Comum - With Dreams Come True -
7. Dreamer - With Lani Hall & Herb Alpert -
8. Morning in Rio - With Toninho Horta -
9. E Vamos La
10. Catavento - With Gracinha Leporace -
11. Acode - With Vanessa Da Mata -
12. Agua de Beber - With Will I Am -
Bonus Tracks japanese version:
13. Les Eaux De Mars (Waters of March) - With Zap Mama -
14. Y Vamos Ya (E Vamos La) - With Juanes -
This CD brings back Sergio in full speed to the music industry and in perfect shape; this is the Sergio Mendes we all like; full of those Brazilian rhythms that have made him the best embassador of Brazilian Music for 5 decades already, here you also have Sergio's Rhodes 73 keyboard very modern sound with retro elements and very importantly his guests here are:
- Sergio Mendes / Rhodes 73, Arrangements, Pianos, Clavinets, Vocals
- Gracinha Leporace / Vocals
- Paul Jackson Jr. / Electric & Acoustic Guitars
- Alphonso Johnson / Bass
- Carlinhos Brown / Compositions, Vocals, Percussions
- Natalie Cole / Vocals
- Toninho Horta / Guitars
- Mike Shapiro / Drums
- Herb Alpert / Trumpet
- Lani Hall / Vocals
- Miwa Yoshida / Vocals
- Kleber Jorge / Guitars
- Bill Cantos / Vocals
- Steve Baxter / Trombone
- Justo Almario / Flutes
- Meia Noite / Percussions
- Giunga / Compositions, Acoustic Guitar
- Vanessa da Mata / Compositions, Vocals
- Joao Donato / Compoistions, Rhodes 73 keyboard
... and many more.
Get it now, you will LOVE it.
Sergio does it again June 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sergio Mendes's last album - Timeless - was soooooo good that I couldn't wait for a follow-up.
Encanto does the job. Natalie Cole, Herb Alpert and Lani Hall are all big treats here.
I've been a huge fan of the "Brasil '66" sound since it started. Can't get enough of this infectious beat. Glad that Sergio is still around to give it to us!
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