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This is a long time request of many Loronixers, it has gone out of print and it is finally being made available at Loronix. Domingo is both Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso - with his last name spelled on the cover with two Ls - debut LP, recorded before the creation of the Tropicalia movement. This is very important, I file this album as Bossa Nova, instead of Tropicalia. Let's see.This is Gal e Caetano Velloso - Domingo (1967), for Philips, featuring lovely Caetano Veloso compositions performed together with Gal Costa. I think all these Caetano Veloso tunes - with some additional songs by Gilberto Gil, Edu Lobo and Sidney Miller - are well known for many Loronixers and some are still performed on radios and concerts on regular basis.
Domingo features songs that were later recorded by Joao Gilberto, such as: Avarandado and Coracao Vagabundo, everything arranged by Dori Caymmi, Roberto Menescal and Francis Hime. I thought I would find an average album performed by great artists at the beginning of their career, but Doming is solid, Gal Costa sings beautifully and the underrated Caetano Veloso violao playing shines on each track. I urge Loronixers to feedback this album, considered lost on my radar, but a real treasure. Musicians were not credited. Tracks include:
01 - Coração Vagabundo (Caetano Veloso)
02 - Onde Eu Nasci Passa Um Rio (Caetano Veloso)
03 - Avarandado (Caetano Veloso)
04 - Um Dia (Caetano Veloso)
05 - Domingo (Caetano Veloso)
06 - Nenhuma Dor (Caetano Veloso)
07 - Candeias (Edu Lobo)
08 - Remelexo (Caetano Veloso)
09 - Minha Senhora (Gilberto Gil / Torquato Neto)
10 - Quem Me Dera (Caetano Veloso)
11 - Maria Joana (Sidney Miller)
12 - Zabele (Gilberto Gil / Torquato Neto)
This is so wonderful! Thank You!
ReplyDeleteThe reissue I have from the Quarenta Anos Caetanos box set, lists Dori Caymmi as playing guitar on all tracks, not Caetano. I don't think they let him play in the early days. This is a really underrated album, kind of the calm before the storm of Tropicalia.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous album... I already have it, but it's a lovely record. Everybody knows that Caetano Veloso is a genius, but it's so nice to be reminded from time to time. I'm going to listen to my copy of the LP right now!
ReplyDeleteZeca, your generosity, enthusiasm and knowledge are appreciated by so many, but I just have to say that I'm enormously grateful to you (and the others who work with you) to make this great music available to everybody and anybody.
I'm learning so much about the music I love most, the music that made me want to learn Portuguese, the music that led me to translate poetry from Brasil and Portugal:
shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/danielsA.html
spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=0967388562
Can I make a request? Please re-post Edu Lobo's Camaleão. The link is dead!
Again, thank you so much for all your hard work - and your almost supernatural generosity!
Pure GOLD. My fav.
ReplyDeleteHey Chirs. Wow man, that's very impressive. These are books I would like to explore down the road. So thank you.
ReplyDelete-AG (Sonoma County by the way)
Caetano did not play guitar on his records until, I think, "Transa" or so -- much later. The guitar here is either Gilberto Gil or a session musician.
ReplyDeleteOops, my friend Pawlyshyn (hi, R. already made the correct attribution on guitar -- Dori!)
ReplyDeletehe actually started playing guitar on his 71 self-titled, in london; transa was just after that (both wonderful albums).
ReplyDeleteThanks, AG. Let's hear it for Northern California! It's great to have my translations published and I hope that my translations of other poets will be published in the future. Brasil's poetry is just magnificent as its music - all the arts in Brasil are very highly developed - and I hope my work helps to spread the word.
ReplyDeleteI have an idea of sharing compilations of songs I love and including PDFs of the lyrics with literal translations. Lyrics in BR are great, too. Mind-blowing, some of them... as soon as I have the time, I'll start posting on a blog.