Next Stop Wonderland

Performer: Original Soundtrack
Engineer: Mark Wessel
Producer: Claudio Ragazzi
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Original music composed by Carlos Ragazzi. Original score personnel: Arto Lindsay, Bebel Gilberto (vocals); Claudio Ragazzi (guitar); Billy Novick (clarinet); Alon Yavnai (piano); Wesley Wirth (bass); Steve Langone (drums); Pemell Satumino, Joel Perpignon (percussion). Original score recorded at Blue Jay Studios, Carlisle, Massachusetts. Contemporary American listeners show no sign of tiring of bossa nova, a decades- old musical style that stays fresh no matter how often one has heard "The Girl From Ipanama." Fittingly, a '90s version of "Ipanema" sung by Bebel Gilberto, daughter of great Brazilian singer Joao, appears on this winning soundtrack. WONDERLAND features bossa nova old and new, the latter also performed by downtown producer/solo artist Arto Lindsay and a fine new Brazilian musician Vinicius Cantuaria, whose debut album SOL NA CARA was one of 1996's best. Among the treats offered on NEXT STOP WONDERLAND are the Tampa Trio's original 1963 version of Sergio Mendes' hit "Mas Que Nada," the Brazilian organist Walter Wanderly's tropically exotic "Baia" and two appearances each by Astrud Gilberto (with Stan Getz, of course) and the late, great Elis Regina. Film composer Claudio Ragazzi skillfully fills any gaps between the tunes with properly idiomatic romantic interludes. Bonus: classic tenorman Coleman Hawkins' funky version of "O Pato (The Duck)," which closes the set.

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