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Monday, January 23, 2006
UNDIU
Joao Gilberto
Joao Gilberto
Polygram : 1973
[Buy It]
CEGOS DO NORDESTE
Baden Powell
Canto on Guitar
MPS : 1970
[Buy It]
AOS BAROES
Lo Borges
Lo Borges
Bomba : 1972
Out of print
O TREM AZUL
Milton Nascimento
Clube de Esquina
EMI : 1972
[Buy It]
MANTRA
Nelson Angelo e Joyce
Nelson Angelo e Joyce
Odeon : 1972
Out of print
TODA ESSA AGUA
Lo Borges
Lo Borges
Bomba : 1972
Out of print
While I had threatened to post more about Tropicalia last time around, that's the aspect of MPB that's always getting recapitulated, and with the recent Soul Jazz one disc overview (not to mention plenty David Byrne-funded discs on Os Mutantes and Tom Ze as well as their explicit influences on Beck, Redd Kross, Tortoise, Arto Lindsey, Animal Collective) well within reach on the shelves, instead here are a few choice cuts of early 70s output, post-Tropicalia. Rather than recapitulate the Western and avant-garde clashes that the movement embraced, and still deep in the grips of a censoring dictatorship, the songs here opt for something more effervescent, exquisite, poppy, while also containing a kernel of haunting melancholy.
There's the legendary Joao Gilberto, who is so low-key here as to almost be pure alpha waves, as well as Baden Powell, whose hypnotic playing seems slightly less Brazilian, more Arabic, and yet it really exists on its own plane. As does the collaboration between Joyce and Nelson Angelo. Spikiest of the bunch is the tightly knotted music of teenager Lo Borges (both with Milton Nascimento and on his first solo album), who reaches such rarefied air casually, a kid Icarus mixing Beatles pop, razor-tipped funk, dazzling polyrhythmic patter, and sweeping baroque moves in punk-length outbursts.
posted by beta
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