Artist: Gabriela Anders
Album: Wanting
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Bossa Nova
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 1998
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Fire Of Love [0:04:17.25]
- The Girl From Ipanema [0:04:24.60]
- Wanting [0:04:39.53]
- Forever [0:05:00.30]
- You Know What It's Like [0:04:44.52]
- Seven Days [0:05:41.15]
- Just An Hour [0:06:03.03]
- Fantasia [0:05:07.40]
- I'll Be Loving You [0:04:12.60]
- Love Is So Unkind [0:03:48.05]
- Feels So Good [0:05:11.27]
- Brasileira [0:03:39.63]
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Gabriela Anders got her big break singing a duet with soft jazz giant Michael Franks, and like that new age patriarch, Anders wraps laid-back vocals around even more tranquil rhythms. It's all very calming and proficient and breezy. And also bland as hell. Like her mentor, Anders has a hard time injecting any soul into her work. Wanting, her debut album, mixes bits of her Argentine heritage with late-'70s California jazz; so, Brazilian music coasts along with soft and hazy saxophone fills and tapping percussion leads. It all can be very pretty -- the opening "Fire of Love" represents Anders at her most relaxed and relaxing -- but boring if you're expecting tempo shifts or even minor vocal inflections. Anders merely settles for a place next to the band to drift along. Yet, no one seems to be going anywhere or really caring about their passivity.
Review by Michael Gallucci