Sunday, February 25, 2007

Luiz Eca & Sagrada Familia - Onda Nova do Brasil (1970)

Here comes Caetano again with another of those nice and challenging LPs. This time featuring one of Loronix favorites, Luiz Eca, accompanied by a giant group of top-notch Brazilian musicians. This LP was recorded in 1970, Brazil and besides this info and personnel listing, everything else is uncertain.

This is Luiz Eca & Sagrada Familia - Onda Nova do Brasil (1970), for Lazarus, Mexico (1978). It is amazing that this LP, recorded in Rio de Janeiro, 1970, featuring large and wonderful personnel on the set was release eight years after recorded. I spoke with Caetano about this gap, but we could not make any further research on this. I invite you to have a try and bring more info; this LP is very good and ahead of its time, full of nice experiments. Tracks include:

Personnel

Mauricio Maestro
(guitar, arrangements, bass and vocals)
Claudio Roditi
(trumpet, vocals)
Bill Voguel
(trumpet, vocal and arrangements)
Zeca
(trombone)
Ion Muniz
(sax tenor)
Gege
(drums)
Wilson Simonal
(vocal)
Angela Viana
(vocals)
Joyce
(vocals)
Nelson Angelo
(arrangements, vocal and guitar)
Luiz Eca
(piano, vocals, instrumental arrangements and Director)
Nana Vasconcelos
(berimbau, vibraphone, cowbell, guiro, ganza, caxixi, triangle, conga and vocals)

Track List

01 - O Homem da Sucursal - Barravento
02 - Pais Tropical
03 - Juliana
04 - Atras das Portas da Tarde
05 - Vamos Nos
06 - Sequestro
07 - Se Voce Pensa
08 - Sa Marina
09 - Yemele
10 - Please, Garcon

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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousSunday, 25 February, 2007

    An interesting story about the sax player in this group, Ion Muniz.

    Many years ago during one of our trips to Rio, a friend at the time, the drummer Deduca deFonseca, knew my wife and I were going to Rio and knew of my love for Bossa. He told us to look up his friend Ion Muniz and we went to some very small jazz club where Ion and a quartet were playing. When we came in they were playing a set that was all modern jazz. After the set I introduced myself to Ion and gave him Deduca's regards. He sat at the table with my wife and me. My wife told him that his playing was great but that it was modern jazz which she was used to in the US. Would he please play Bossa Nova. He said that they were there to play jazz but as a favor to us would play some Bossa Nova and he did. Seems like an eternity ago.

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  2. AnonymousSunday, 25 February, 2007

    nice story Jazzman and thanks Zeca! Luiz Eça materical is always nice.

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  3. pawlyshynSunday, 25 February, 2007

    Wild! I love it. Reminds me a little of something like Antônio Adolfo's Brazuca. "Please garçom," one of the two songs listed on the cover as "uncredited," is by Joyce, and what sounds like a much later version of it is one of the bonus songs on the reissue of her first LP.

    For what it's worth, I found this from the biography section of Joyce's website: "Graduou-se em Jornalismo pela PUC-Rio em 1970. No mesmo ano fez parte do grupo Sagrada Familia, liderado por Luiz Eça, que ficou em temporada de dois meses no México, no Hotel Camino Real. Ao retornar da turnê, casou-se com o compositor mineiro Nelson Angelo, também integrante do grupo."

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  4. bossanovadreamerSunday, 25 February, 2007

    Very nice to see this album at Loronix- I only knew that it is very very rare and expensive on vinil-I spoke with Claudinho some weeks ago after concert when he was on tour here in Geramny with the Klaus Ignatzek Trio.They played Jazz and some bossas. Claudinho is a very nice guy-We spoke about Whatmusic and the Ed Lincoln album he played as guest-
    P.s Friend Jazzman very nice your story .

    Thanks to Zeca and Caetano

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  5. AnonymousSunday, 25 February, 2007

    Dicionário Cravo Albin - A Sagrada Família:

    Luiz Eça
    Nelson Angelo
    Naná Vasconcelos
    Mauricio Maestro
    Gegê
    Ion Muniz
    Cláudio Roditi
    Zeca do Trombone
    Bill Voguel
    Joyce
    Rose
    Carminha
    Angela

    Grupo liderado pelo pianista Luizinho Eça e integrado por Nelson Angelo (violão), Mauricio Maestro (violão), Naná Vasconcelos (percussão), Gegê, Ion Muniz (sax), Cláudio Roditi (trompete), Zeca do Trombone, Bill Vogel e pelas cantoras Joyce, Rose, Carminha e Angela.
    Em 1970, realizou temporada de dois meses no México, onde gravou o LP "Luiz Eça e La Familia Sagrada". De volta ao Brasil, o grupo se dissolveu.

    • Luiz Eça e La Familia Sagrada (1970) LP


    Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileira - www.dicionariompb.com.br

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  6. AnonymousSunday, 25 February, 2007

    Duduka da Fonseca, the great drummer, is living in new york (he maried Maucha Adnet who was one of the vocalists of Jobim´s Banda Nova). Last year he recorded as the leader of a group a very good CD of jazz-samba. He gave me a signed one that now is a special item of my humble colection).

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  7. AnonymousMonday, 26 February, 2007

    Nice, crazy record! Thanks much!

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  8. AnonymousThursday, 01 March, 2007

    Joyce relata histórias do grupo Sagrada Família no seu livro "Fotografei Você na minha Rolleyflex", 1997. Reproduzo alguns trechos:
    "Em 1970,... o apartamento de Luizinho Eça, no final do Leblon, era um laboratório de sons e experiências de todos os tipos. Conviviam ali várias gerações de músicos de diversos estilos, linguagens, idades e sexos....A sala era pequena, quase toda tomada pelo piano de cauda inteira, ao redor do qual a gente se distribuía, tendo diariamente master classes sem que nos déssemos conta."
    "Luizinho foi convidado por um empresário mexicano a levar sua banda para uma temporada no país. O Tamba, seu grupo de anos se desfizera. O empresário pensara numa formação ao estilo Sérgio Mendes, com cantoras e uma base instrumental entre a bossa-nova e o pop. Mas Luizinho pensava grande, e armou uma banda com nada menos que treze elementos, todos membros de sua tribo de aprendizes."
    Recomendo o livro, pois além de grande compositora, cantora e violonista, Joyce escreve muito bem(ela também é jornalista).

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  9. PelleFriday, 13 April, 2007

    I downloaded this right after you posted it and forgot to mention how much I love it, especially the first song. If this is challenging, then I want plenty more challenges!

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  10. AnonymousFriday, 16 November, 2007

    This album is just amazing! I always heard about it and few days ago I got it in a store here in barcelona, reissued and brand new 180 grams vinil!
    a spanish called vampi soul records has the issue.
    costed me 17 euros :)
    payed happy.

    pleased to read all these stories here at the blog.

    saudade.

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  11. HidesteMonday, 26 November, 2007

    In Vampisoul homepage, it's written: "the White Album that SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL 66 did never recorded"!

    Very nice !!

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