Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Deserves a chance and a half

At first I found this something of a disappointment. The initial cuts seemed alarmingly short on melody--just repeated Tinkertoy riffs with textural variations--and I couldn't believe a guitarist and vocalist as brilliant as Vinicius Cantuaria had been reduced to beating time on a bass drum. Slowly, though, it won me over. The second half is much stronger than the first. "Listen" is gorgeous, "Anywhere Road" has the classic, off-kilter shape of Frisell's best compositions, and "Procissao" is a percolating wonder, with a fine vocal from Cantuaria. So I was wrong--sort of. I still wonder whether the textural novelty here tends to overwhelm Frisell's (many) other strengths. But hey, I'd hate to be without it. Hence the four stars.