Monday, July 16, 2007

Tito Madi - A Fossa (1971)

In one of those quick polls I use to make showing post alternatives to friends, the great GK said something very important, he said that Tito Madi deserves more posts at Loronix. I agree with GK, so I decided to start with what is considered Tito Madi most successful and important albums, the first out of the four of his A Fossa series, recoded respectively in 1971, 1972, 1973, and 1974 for London, which is a subsidiary of Odeon.

This is Tito Madi - A Fossa (1971), for London. For a long time, I though this "A Fossa" series was dedicated to the same A Fossa style, which is a kind of romantic Samba Cancao with influences of Boleros and American Ballads. However, Fossa is the name of a nightclub in Rio de Janeiro where Tito Madi performed several years in the 70's. This series brings these fantastic phsychodelic covers that you cannot stop starring and finding new details. Let's see how Loronixers feedback this release. Tracks include:

01 - Apelo (Baden Powell / Vinicius de Moraes)
02 - Pra Dizer Adeus (Edu Lobo / Torquato Neto)
03 - Canção da Volta (Ismael Netto / Antônio Maria)
04 - Cansei de Ilusões (Tito Madi)
05 - De Onde Vens (Dori Caymmi / Nelson Motta)
06 - Chuvas de Verão (Fernando Lobo)
07 - Sonho e Saudade (Tito Madi)
08 - Esquecendo Você (Tom Jobim)
09 - Pra Você (Silvio César)
10 - Eu e a Brisa (Johnny Alf)
11 - Fiz do Amor Meu Canto (Tito Madi / William Prado)
12 - Reverso (Marino Pinto / Gilberto Milfont) Se o Tempo Entendesse (Marino Pinto / Mário Rossi) Sucedeu Assim (Tom Jobim / Marino Pinto)

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3 comments:

  1. Ayrton Mugnaini Jr.Monday, 16 July, 2007

    Glad you remembered Tito Madi! Just one thing: London wasn't just a subsidiary of Odeon, but a label of the English Decca record company which at the time was represented in Brazil by Odeon (itself a label used by the Brazilian branch of British EMI - but let's not make much fuss about your great musical rescue work!

    Cheerio,

    Ayrton

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  2. UnknownMonday, 16 July, 2007

    a capa já é um clássico!
    abraços de um loronixer português

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  3. AnonymousSaturday, 13 September, 2008

    Zeca,

    I too thought for a long time that these records must be just 'fossa' and for maybe 15 years never bought them in the sebos. But during this time Tito's songs got stuck in my head and one day last time I was in Rio (2002? too long ago) I bought these on 2 em 1 CD. That evening I was at Ed Motta's house when Bebeto Castilho came over to chat and I showed him the many CDs i bough that day (maybe 100!)

    Anyway imagine my surprise when he told me that these volumes were Tamba Trio and Luiz Eca arrangements! The guitarist is the great Helio Delmiro, and I love Eca's harpsichord playing on some of these tracks.

    This was the same conversation when bebeto told me about Eca's arrangements of Milton's Travessia, by the way.

    These albums are really fantastic!

    Gary

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