The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves, Cibelle's second full-length recording effort, further defines her as one of the most inventive and distinctive musicians to emerge in recent years. The record features collaborations with Seu Jorge, Devendra Banhart and Spleen. Artist cover songs include Tom Waits' "Green Grass," Caetano Veloso's "London London" and Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Por Toda a Minha Vida." Mike Lindsay of the English folktronica band Tunng and Apollo Nove co-produce the album along with Cibelle.

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The debut album from the Brazilian singer made semi-famous as the voice on Yugoslavian/Brazilian pianist Suba's hit album. The lyrics and songs are essentially all written by Cibelle over the course of a few months surrounding the creation of the album, and the sound was engineered by Cibelle along with Apollo 9, an up-and-coming Brazilian producer. To add to the pot, a couple of the musical minds behind Morcheeba lent a hand in the process. The songs are in large part ballads, capitalizi...   [ read more ]

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For anyone fond of Cibelle's 2003 self-titled debut, a pleasant album of Brazilian downtempo typical of Six Degrees (a trendy worldbeat label based in San Fransisco with a Lonely Planet-like following), The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves is likely to generate a sense of surprise. It's a bold move in an indistinct direction, away from the broadly appealing samba-lite downbeat of her self-titled debut album and toward abstract soundscapes and poetics. It's a consciously artistic directio...   [ read more ]

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