ZE IBARRA レコード& CD

Review: A new Glasshouse acoustic session from Ze Ibarra, Dora Morelenbaum and Julia Mestre (three-quarters of Brazilian MPB supergroup Bala Desejo) snaps the group at a most intimate moment. While Lucas Nunes was back in Brazil performing with Caetano Veloso (a neat parallel, given the group's debts to Tropicalia), the trio held court in Brooklyn, where cross nine stripped-down tracks, they revisit material from their debut LP Sim Sim Sim and interpret classics by Dorival Caymmi, Caetano and Chico Buarque with a natural warmth and vocal blend with enough novel aspiration to entirely sidesteps nostalgia. Loose and luminous, the session feels less like a performance and more like a gathering, part homage, part continuation of the lineage they draw from.