National Geographic Music (National Geographic)

With this second international release, the seductive singer/guitarist Celso Fonseca (who has been a regular collaborator of such classic artists as Gilberto Gil, Marisa Monte and Caetano Veloso) continues to cement his reputation as one of the most exciting new voices in Brazilian music.
Rive Gauche Rio features nine new haunting compositions, two unusual covers (a reinterpretation of British singer-songwriter Damien Rice's "Delicate", a Portuguese version of French crooner Henri Salvador's "J'ai vu"), and a refreshing duet with Urugayan singer/guitarist and Academy Award Winning composer for the Motorcycle Diaries, Jorge Drexler (on the latter's composition "Don de Fluir").

— CalabashMusic.com