terça-feira, 25 de abril de 2006

LUSOFONIAS


Não foi de modo algum fácil e curto o caminho percorrido por essa expressão cultural hoje designada por música popular portuguesa. Desde as «canções heróicas» até ao «canto de intervenção», passando pelos movimentos da «balada» e da «trova», pelo «canto de protesto», «nova canção portuguesa» e «canto livre», justamente as principais fases de todo esse complexo percurso, a música popular portuguesa dos nossos dias é o resultado de todo um longo trajecto cultural intensamente vivido em estreita relação com a evolução da situação política, económica e social do país, assumindo toda uma tradição de luta e de resistência que lhe confere um estatuto de invulgar significado e expressividade quando comparada com semelhantes fenómenos noutros países (Mário Correia in Prefácio de “Música Popular Portuguesa”, Março de 1984).
Agora que se cumpre mais um aniversário da revolução portuguesa Rato Records apresenta uma compilação desses tempos de resistência onde a música desempenhou um papel central na evolução do desejo comum por um país livre de mordaças e falsidades. Muitos anseios ficaram entretanto pelo caminho mas hoje, trinta e dois anos depois, o balanço continua felizmente a ser positivo. São, como não podiam deixar de ser, 25 canções, que vão desde os primórdios da década de 60 (onde por influência do início das guerras coloniais a intensidade dos protestos começou a aumentar significativamente) até ao desabrochar de Abril, com as primeiras canções editadas livremente.

domingo, 23 de abril de 2006

EVA DOIS MIL E UM


EVINHA: EVA 2001
Original Released on LP Odeon MOFB 3572 (1969)
1- Casaco Marron (Bye Bye Cecy)
2- Tigre da Esso Que Sucesso!
3- Traços de Amor (Traces)
4- Meu Mundo
5- Psiu!
6- Vou Seguindo
7- Estorinha
8- Os Dentes Brancos do Mundo
9- Sózinha
10- O Vale dos Sonhos
(Theme From Valley of The Dolls)
11- De Polo a Polo
12- Samba, Negro
I discovered Evinha only recently. She was a contemporary of Claudia on the Odeon label in Brazil, and thus her albums have similar arrangements. Evinha went on to form the Trio Esperança, but it was with this album that she recorded what I think was her first big hit, "Casaco Marron". This beautiful and tender ballad opens the album. The whole thing is very pleasant, with a couple of lesser-known Marcos Valle/Paulo Sergio Valle tracks thrown in as well. Evinha's voice is not particularly strong, but it has a kind of vulnerable sound to it that appeals to me. The backings and orchestrations are superb. Probably the grooviest track is "Vou Seguindo", but the whole album is a winner. (in Musical Taste)

sábado, 22 de abril de 2006

GAL CANTA CAYMMI


Edição Original em LP Phonogram 6349 174 (1976)

LA BELLE EST DE RETOUR


Et parce que vous l'aiment bien, voici un autre album originale de B.B., celui-ci paru chez Philips en 1964:
01. Moi je joue (G. Bourgeois – J.M. Rivière) 1’40
02. Une histoire de plage

(G. Bourgeois – J.M. Rivière – Y. Spanos) 1’53
03. Ça pourrait changer

(“Don’t You Ever Change Your Mind”)
(B. Barratt – G. Bourgeois – J.M. Rivière) 1’41
04. A la fin de l'été... (tu sais)

(G. Bourgeois – J.M. Rivière) 2’20
05. Ne me laisse pas l'aimer

(F. Fumière – J.M. Rivat) 1’46
06. Maria ninguém
(Carlos Lyra) 2’39

07. Je danse donc je suis
(André Popp – J.C. Massoulier) 1’54
08. Mélanie (G. Bourgeois – J.M. Rivière) 2’08
09. Ciel de lit

(G. Bourgeois – Gloria Lasso – J.M. Rivière) 1’39
10. Un jour comme un autre

(G. Bourgeois – J.M. Rivière) 2’22
11. Les cheveux dans le vent

(G. Bourgeois – J.P. Calvet – J.M. Rivière) 1’42
12. Jamais trois sans quatre
(G. Bourgeois – J.M. Rivière) 2’11

sábado, 15 de abril de 2006

LENO: "VIDA & OBRA DE JOHNNY McCARTNEY"


Este disco foi produzido por Raul Seixas (Raulzito na altura), e teria constituído um verdadeiro marco no seu tempo caso tivesse sido editado integralmente. Mas com temas como reforma agrária, censura, tortura, drogas e repressão, "Vida e Obra" foi censurado (9 das suas 13 músicas foram proibidas, sendo lançado na época apenas um compacto duplo com as 4 que sobraram). Sómente nos anos 90 esse material foi achado nos arquivos da CBS e lançado pelo selo de Gileno, o Natal Records. Foi o primeiro disco gravado em oito canais no Brasil, o máximo de tecnologia na época.
This album was produced by Raul Seixas (Raulzito then), and it would be a landmark at its time if it was totally released. But with songs about agrarian reform, censorship, torture, drugs and repression, “Vida & Obra” was censured (9 of its 13 tracks were forbidden, which caused that only an EP with the remain 4 tracks was released in 1971). Just in the 1990s the complete album was finally released in CD. It was the first album ever recorded in 8 channels at Brazil, which was the very best technology at the time.

sexta-feira, 14 de abril de 2006

SGT. PEPPER'S BAND

Since 1990 when it was formed, the Sgt. Pepper’s Band has commitments itself to performing the Beatles’s music as near to the original as possible. Sgt. Pepper's Band has researched the work of the most important pop band in history - The Beatles.
The Sgt. Pepper’s Band hail from Brazil’s third city, Belo Horizonte, wich has a population of three million. The group has been so critically acclaimed that they have been invited for the most important talk shows and news programs on TV in Brazil. Currently many radio stations broadcast the band's songs daily and they have been invited to play all over the country.
The most performed English rock band in the world originated the traditional Beatle Week. It's an yearly festival that takes place in Liverpool bringing together bands from the whole world. In 1994, Sgt. Pepper's Band became the first Latin American group comming to perform live in this event and it was acclaimed by the Organizers and British audience as one of the very best in the world. Since then, it has always been invited to participate in this festival. In 1996 the band introduced Europe to it's first CD,"Come And Get It", a result of a scrupulous research that put together 13 Lennon & McCartney songs not released by The Beatles, bringing the English people to amazement concerning the CD arrangements that received an endorsement from Paul McCartney by himself («Thank you for your helpful comments and it sounds like you got a great band going. Well good luck on your music, your job sounds so natural and unforced. Nothing on the album sounds fussy, does it sound like a meticulous reconstruction of the past.»). The band has just released the new CD "Afonso Pena com Abbey Road" which presents the second part of that work and the own original song “Two Wars” . Sergeant Pepper's work is a result of passion : passion for the life and work of these four hairy guys who changed the world. This feeling means hard work and rigorous research that brought back all the beauty and radicalism of this revolution named The Beatles.

Desde 1990, a Sgt. Pepper's Band se dedica à pesquisa e interpretação da obra do mais importante grupo da música pop internacional da história - The Beatles.
O talento desses mineiros repercutiu em todo o Brasil. Jô Soares Onze e Meia, Jornal Nacional, Fantástco, Vídeo Show, Domingão do Faustão foram algumas de suas vitrines.
O mais tocado conjunto de rock inglês do todos os tempos deu origem ao tradicional Mersey Beatle Festival, um festival anual que acontece em Liverpool, na Inglaterra, reunindo bandas de todo o mundo. Em 1994, a Sgt. Pepper's Band se torna a primeira banda latino-americana a se apresentar no festival. Já no seu primeiro ano, foi aclamada pela mídia inglesa como uma das três melhores do mundo.
Em 1996, a banda lançou na Europa seu primeiro CD,"Come And Get It", fruto de minuciosa pesquisa que reuniu treze canções inéditas da dupla Lennon e McCartney. Os ingleses se impressionaram com a qualidade dos arranjos do disco, recebendo inclusive elogios do próprio Paul McCartney em mensagem enviada para a banda («Agradeço os gentis comentários e me parece que vocês estão indo muito bem. Boa sorte em sua música. O trabalho de vocês é muito natural. O álbum está "limpo", e em minha opinião reflete uma meticulosa reconstrução do passado»). Em Junho de 1999 a banda lança seu segundo álbum "Afonso Pena com Abbey Road" que completa a releitura da obra dos Beatles não lançada oficialmente.
No famoso Abbey Road Studios, onde os Beatles gravaram 95% de sua obra e que deu nome ao último disco da banda inglesa, os mineiros gravaram duas faixas para o selo Cavern Records.
A Banda participou também do International Pop Overthrow Festival em Los Angeles. Por se tratar de um evento que tem o compromisso de preservar a música pop e como não poderia deixar de ser, a Sgt. Pepper’s Band foi a escolhida pelos organizadores para representar a música dos Beatles. O som de Minas que vem dos Beatles é fruto de uma paixão: pela vida e a obra de quatro cabeludos que mudaram o mundo. Paixão que se traduz em trabalho árduo e pesquisa rigorosa para trazer de volta toda a beleza e radicalidade de uma revolução chamada The Beatles.

ESTÚPIDO CUPIDO


Trilha Sonora da Novela editada em 1976
1. Banho de Lua (Tintarella di Luna) - Celly Campello
2. Quem é? - Osmar Navarro
3. Diana - Carlos Gonzaga
4. Meu mundo caíu – Maysa
5. Broto legal (I'm in love) - Sergio Murillo
6. Alguém é bobo de alguém
(Everybody's Somebody's Fool) - Wilson Miranda
7. Por Uma Noite – Stradivarius

8. Boogie do bebê (Baby Sitter Boogie) - Tony Campello
9. Sereno - Paulo Morin
10. Neurastênico - Betinho & Seu Conjunto

11. Biquini de Bolinha Amarelinha Tão Pequenininho
(Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini) - Ronnie Cord
12. Tetê - Sylvia Telles
13. Bata Baby(Long Tall Sally) - Wilson Miranda
14. Ela é Carioca- Os Cariocas
15. Estúpido Cupido (Stupid Cupid) - Celly Campello

Quem freqüenta sebo de discos já cansou de se deparar com centenas de cópias da trilha sonora da novela Estúpido Cupido. Normalmente, os discos estão em péssimo estado, muito arranhados e com marcas de dedos. Não é para menos. A trilha da novela de Mário Prata, levada ao ar pela TV Globo entre 1976 e 77, vendeu um milhão de cópias (!). Todo mundo estava louco para reviver sucessos pré-jovem guardistas de Celly Campello (as irresistíveis "Banho de Lua" e "Estúpido Cupido") e de outros artistas que tiveram seu auge entre 1958 e 1963. Há na trilha, em sua maioria, roquinhos pioneiros a emplacar no Brasil como "Biquini de Bolinha Amarelinha Tão Pequenininho" (Ronnie Cord), "Boogie do Bebê" (Tony Campello), "Broto Legal" (Sérgio Murillo), "Diana" (Carlos Gonzaga), "Bata Baby" (Wilson Miranda) e alguns (raros) rock-baladas que não são versões e sim músicas originalmente compostas por brasileiros, como "Quem É?" (Osmar Navarro, também sucesso na voz de Hebe Camargo) e "Sereno" (Paulo Molin, outra que também emplacou na voz de outra cantora, Leny Eversong). Paralelamente aos roquinhos, há ecos de samba-canção ("Meu Mundo Caiu", com Maysa) e bossa nova ("Ela É Carioca", com Os Cariocas, e "Tetê", com Silvinha Telles). Eis uma trilha recheada de nostalgia seja para a turma que viveu intensamente essa fase, ou para os trintões que curtiram esse período na infância graças a esse disco. Aos mais novos, é uma oportunidade de conhecer o quão ingênuas eram as canções jovens de 40 anos atrás. Atualizando as gírias, vale esclarecer que, naquela época, tchutchuca era "brotinho", morou? (Rodrigo Faour)

SUPERSTAR


Conceived and created by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice as a rock-opera double album in 1971, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR achieved almost unprecedented sales around the world and inspired a subsequent series of concerts produced by Robert Stigwood, which took place in New York, Los Angeles, London, Copenhagen, Paris or Sidney (just to refer the main cities). But it was as a motion picture (directed by Norman Jewison two years later) that the nearly unlimited potencial of the score has been most realized: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR transcended the boundaires of both set and stage to become a statement of historical significance. The director took the motion picture company to Israel and filmed entirely on location, utilizing natural settings that added a stunning dimension to the music – music that is poignant, dramatic, starting in its intensity, and timeless in its statement as conducted by André Previn. The cast was not so good as the London Original (with Ian Gillan from Deep Purple, Yvonne Elliman – that was casting also to the movie – Murray Head and Madeline Bell) but it served its purpose as well.
Have yourself a bellyful of Easter little eggs!

quinta-feira, 13 de abril de 2006

FOUR FRESHMEN: "TODAY IS TOMORROW!"


Original Released on LP Liberty LST 7563 (1968)
With the luminous Today Is Tomorrow!, the Four Freshmen updated their groundbreaking harmonies to keep pace with a generation of sunshine pop acts beholden to their influence. Tackling contemporary hits like "Cherish," "Lady Madonna," and "Daydream," the group proves far more than mere elder statesmen, revealing new dimensions of vocal mastery that boast an energy and edge well-matched to the flower-power era. The Freshmen treat songs like "Walk on By" and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" with genuine respect, clearly relishing their timelessness and mutability. Their clever arrangements bridge the gap between traditional pop and its counterculture counterpart, even bringing together "Come Fly with Me" and "Up, Up and Away" for a medley that transcends its surface silliness on the wings of harmonies that truly soar (Jason Ankeny in AllMusic)

sábado, 8 de abril de 2006

JACQUES BREL: "OLYMPIA 64"


Le 16 Octobre 1964, Brel fait, à l’Olympia, une rentrée fracassante. Après "Amsterdam", c’est un délire qui s’apaise d’autant moins que Brel ne perd pas une seconde pour déguster la frénésie des applaudissements. Avec ses enchaînements sans concession, la présence de Brel en scène est jugée “fascinante”. Après sa quatorzième et dernière chanson, huit minutes de rappels acharnés et tout à fait vains. Le lendemain, Jacques Chancel titre son article: «Jacques Brel, l’ouragan que tout Paris attendait».
“I wll die, loving” (Jacques Brel, 1966)
Brel’s second album of 1964 was also his second recorded at the Parisian concert hall, a venue that was to Europe what Carnegie Hall or the Royal Albert Hall were in their respective countries: you hadn’t made it until you’d played there. By October 16-17, Brel hadn’t just made it – as far as the French and the Belgians were concerned, he was king of the world. Unlikely though it might seem, French chanson was even starting to build a hip following in the notoriously resistant Britain and America. (Bob Dylan once described Charles Aznavour as one of the greatest performers he had ever seen).
Following close behind Brel’s 1964 studio LP Les Bonbons, Olympia 64 introduces “Amsterdam”, “Mathilde” and “Tango Funèbre”, and revives “Au Suivant”, all of which would be covered by Scott Walker. It also features “Les Bonbons”, “Les Vieux”, “Les Toros”, and “Les Bigotes” from his previous album, but the repetition simply demonstrates the difference between Brel in person and in the studio. At Olympia, he inhabits the songs, living the stories, throwing himself in from the outset, acting them out. There is no let-up in drama, satire, or passion. He dies many, many times over the course of the 48 minutes; the rest is spent in sick beds, mobile brothels, and bars. In “Les Toros”, he becomes a dying bull, staring up at his tormentors, relating it to Waterloo, Verdun, and contemporaneous wars on formerly French territories. Released as Music For The Millions in America and Britain, this album is the reason a Belgian chanson singer is still the coolest rock cult of all time (David Hutcheson in “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die”).
Jacques Brel is born 77 years ago, on the 8th April 1929, and died of cancer on October 9th 1978. Rato Records pays a tribute to this unique singer and songwriter sharing soon some Anthologies of his greatest songs.

sexta-feira, 7 de abril de 2006

TRINI LOPEZ: "THE FOLK ALBUM"


Original Released on LP Reprise RS 6147 (1965)
Produced by Don Costa
(Not available on CD - Ripped from the original vinyl album)
01 - Lemon Tree (Will Holt) 2:50
02 - Pretty Eyes (Randazzo - Weinstein) 2:45
03 - Greenback Dollar (Axton - Ramsey) 2:22
04 - Puff (The Magic Dragon) (Yarrow - Lipton) :30
05 - I Love Your Beautiful Brown Eyes (Lopez - Zeller) 2:45
06 - Blowin’ In The Wind (Bob Dylan) 3:11
07 - We’ll Sing In The Sunshine (Gale Garnett) :40
08 - Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) (Segal - Danzig) 3:30
09 - Crooked Little Man (Ersel Hickey - Ed. E. Miller) :27
10 - Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Bob Dylan) 3:35
11 - Michael (Dave Fisher) 2:52
12 - This Train (Yarrow - Stookey) 2:32

terça-feira, 4 de abril de 2006

SMILE & SADNESS


Original Released on LP Verve V6-8673 (US, 1966)
01. A Certain Smile 1’27
02. A Certain Sadness 3’08
03. Nêga do Cabelo Duro 2’18
04. So Nice (Summer Samba) 2’41
05. Você Já Foi à Bahia 2’15
06. Portuguese Washerwoman 1’30
07. Goodbye Sadness (Tristeza) 3’33
08. Call Me 3’20
09. Here’s That Rainy Day 2’43
10. Tu Mi Delirio 3’38
11. It’s A Lovely Day Today 2’39
12. The Sadness of After 2’27 (bonus track)
13. Who Needs Forever? 2’48 (bonus track)
Astrud Gilberto: Vocals
Walter Wanderley: Organ, piano
José Marino: Bass
Claudio Slon: Drums
Bobby Rosengarden: Percussion
Recorded September 1966
Engineering: Val Valentin, Rudy Van Gelder
Produced by Creed Taylor

This LP, full of wonderful Wanderley arrangements, was a collaboration between Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto and Walter Wanderley's Trio. It is the first U.S. album where vocals appear on a Wanderley album. The last two bonus tracks were only released on the Verve CD, in 1998 (see original liner notes on the back cover)

segunda-feira, 3 de abril de 2006

Nicoletta 67


Première Edition en LP Barclay, 1967
Cet album c'est un trés bon example du meilleur pop français des années soixante. Prends surtout attention aux covers de deux classiques absolus: "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" ("Les Orgues D'Antan") et "I Put A Spell On You" ("Ça Devait Arriver"). Ravissante

domingo, 2 de abril de 2006

Victoria Goes Samba


Original Released on CD BMG-International 68823 (2005/05)
One more time Rato Records makes an exception and presents a complete album of the present days. Because it was a very nice surprise to listen to La hermosa Victoria singing in portuguese. Great versions of great bossa songs! What a sensational beginning to this sensual actress...
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