Agnes Gosling - Cacador [CD]

Cacador is the new album by singer Agnes Gosling, who made her debut with Cais, an Edison-nominated album dedicated to the Brazilian songs of Milton Nascimento and Elis Regina. On Cacador, Gosling explores new avenues. The album is made up from a mixture of Brazilian popular music, jazz, pop and electronic music and contains almost exclusively original compositions full of suspense, harmonically braver and more mysterious. In close collaboration with studio magician Vincent Helbers and the renowned drummer Richard Spaven, these arrangements rouse emotions with an acute expression of the enchantment, rapture and despair of love. As in real life, there is light and shadow. Gosling has matured as a composer and arranger and is not afraid to show her vulnerability. The track "Abe rich liebe dich (But I Love You)" shows deep feeling, something we all experience but only few can immediately express that way. Elsewhere she and her band refine standards like "Bianca" (Egberto Gismonti) and "Trem Azul" (Lo Borges), the latter with Richard Spaven's inimitable drumming and Vincent Helbers on synths modulating Bob James. Finest and demanding guitar, harmony singing, hard rhythms, orchestral passages- this album has it all. Expect a fascinating mix of contrasts, a Portisheadesque bridge between the acoustic and the electronic spheres.