Thursday, November 22, 2007

Nara Leao - Nara Leao (1968)

AdHoc strikes again and without knowing sent a perfect closing to this celebration of the first Bossa Nova US concert at Carnegie Hall. Nara Leao is truly the Bossa Nova muse, favorite of many Loronixers. I never thought to make this album available at Loronix, this cover artwork looks so modern that I always took this album as a Nara Leao album from the 80s. I had the chance to hear it for the first time today and seem to me this is Nara Leao Tropicalia album, featuring arrangements of Maestro Rogerio Duprat and several early Caetano Veloso compositions. It is not necessary to say that AdHoc delivers best of breed transfers and awesome cover scans from both vinyl and CD versions. Let's see.

This is Nara Leao - Nara Leao (1968), for Philips. I had a very limited time to get this album atmosphere to write an adequate review, AdHoc delivers the CD version, with lots of complimentary information, including Nara Leao review for each track. So I will let you with Nara Leao, featuring 12 tracks issued in 1968 with two additional CD bonus tracks with the last one featuring Jorge Neri as special guest. Just a little additional thought, track 01 - Lindoneia (Caetano Veloso) is very familiar and it is probably the same version included at Tropicalia - Panis et Circenses, an album that I'm tracking down since the beginning of Loronix. Tracks include:

01 - Lindonéia (Caetano Veloso)
02 - Quem É (Custódio Mesquita / Juraci Camargo)
03 - Donzela Por Piedade Não Perturbes (J. S. Arvelos)
04 - Mamãe Coragem (Caetano Veloso / Torquato Neto)
05 - Anoiteceu (Francis Hime / Vinicius de Moraes)
06 - Modinha (Villa-Lobos / Manuel Bandeira)
07 - Infelizmente (Lamartine Babo / Ari Pavão)
08 - Odeon (Ernesto Nazareth / Vinicius de Moraes)
09 - Mulher (Custódio Mesquita / Sady Cabral)
10 - Medroso de Amor (Alberto Nepomuceno / Juvenal Galeno)
11 - Deus Vos Salve Esta Terra Santa (Caetano Veloso / Torquato Neto)
12 - Tema de ''Os Inconfidentes'' (Chico Buarque / Cecília Meireles)
13 - Festa (Dori Caymmi / Nelson Motta) Bonus Track
14 - Linha 12 (Juarez de Souza / Antonio E. Motta) with Jorge Neri