From Saudades do Brasil
From: | Date: | Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:55:21 +0000 |
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Daniella wrote:
> Marcos Sacramento: "A Modernidade da Tradic,ao" (Buda Musique)
> I LOVE it!
> Clear tenor voice and guitar. The style is clearly in the Joao
> Gilberto/Rosa Passos tradition.
> Wonderful song selection. Beautiful singing and playing.
> No time to provide more info.
> My advice: If you see it, don't think twice -- buy it!
>
I concur without hesitation. I saw Mauricio Carrilio (the
guitarist) last week with his group called " the Trio" and they were
spectacular. Joao Gilberto's guitar style is a _direct_ outgrowth of
this "guitar, voice and light percussion" style of samba which has
always been popular in the morro. Giving credit where it's due, I'd
say Joao is in their tradition :-)
Another good example is the guitar on Paulinho da Viola's cd "Samba
na madrugada".
P.S. There is a great scene in the film "Bananas is (sic)* my
Business" where one of Carmen Miranda's composers (still living at
the time!!) plays and sings one of his sambas. My thought while
watching it: Joao gave his personal twist to something that's
been going on a _long_ time. With much old samba, if you could take
away the percussion and cavaquinho...and turn the guitar up to the
point where you could hear it, basically what you'd have is "Joao"
The sambista singer/songwriters themselves, though rarely recorded,
have apparently been doing the Joao thing "off-the-record"
(literally) since at least the 1930s.
David Rumpler
(Rio)
* I've always wanted to use "sic"
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