Cool nippo bossa!!!
Galileo Cavazzini | Rovigo, Italy | 10/01/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is a fantastic cool bossa nova album of Astrud Gilberto sung in japanese language and recorded with Sadao Watanabe and his orchestra in Tokio in 1969. 2/3 of the record are written by japanese musicians, 1/3 are the best bossa standard of Astrud. The whole album is melancholic bossa with sweet and tender orchestration: no redundance, great chill out music!!!
This album is a real Masterpiece"
Gilberto Goes To Japan In The Crest Of A White Wave
Carmelo Hernandez Ramos | Spain | 11/09/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"In 1969 Astrud Gilberto produced three wonderful albums for Verve. Nevertheless, in an paradoxically inexplicable and unjustifiable way, her two "official" records from that year, the published ones for the american and european market, still have not been reissued by Verve. Two authentic marvels ("I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do" and "September 17, 1969") that still are sleeping the eternal dream, hoping that someone intelligent in Verve does the correct thing: to manage his reissue by request.
The third album published in 1969 for Gilberto was her "Gilberto Golden Japanese Album" a magnificent (re)collection of special moments in which, apart from the impressive arrangements, there shines with proper light her only and unrepeatable voice of velvet capable of transmitting, from her soft fragility, the ripple of the waves in the distance, when the first rays of the morning sun so it seems to dismiss the night, a little before when everything returns to begin.
Fantastic."
¡Very good!
F. M. Salome | Mexico City, Mexico | 07/13/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"It's a cd wonderful. Astrud Gilberto is a sorceress. Your interpretation of "A man and a woman" is beatifuil. Your sweet, calm and melodious voice transports to the stars.It is one of the Astrud Gilberto's best works. ¡¡¡¡¡¡Excellent!!!!!!"
Track Listings (12) - Disc #1