Friday, December 21, 2007

Marilia Medalha - Caminhada (1972)

Marilia Medalha started her career in the 60's, at the city of Niterio, Rio de Janeiro, performing with Sergio Mendes on local nightclubs. Later, she became an active performer on Festivais da Cancao, TV shows and recordings, working together with renowned Brazilian artists, such as: Edu Lobo, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Toquinho, Vinicius de Moraes, which is Marilia Medalha most frequent composer partner. In spite of this great start and the solid albums released in the late 60's, Marilia Medalha career did not evolve when entering the 70's, being this album one of her last ones. Let's see.

This is Marilia Medalha - Caminhada (1972), for RGE, featuring Marilia Medalha compositions blended with standards by Luiz Bonfa, Herivelto Martins, Humberto Teixeira and Avelino de Souza, which is the brother of zecalouro's grandfather. Rosinha de Valenca has a important participation as producer and arranger, delivering also her beautiful guitar player. Maestro Edson Frederico is in charge of strings arrangements. Tracks include:

Personnel

Rosinha de Valenca
(violao, viola, arrangements)
Edson Frederico
(strings arrangements)
Dirceu
(drums)
Bebeto
(piano, organ)
Hamleto
(sax tenor, flute)
Itibere Zwarg, Renato
(bass)
Paulinho Astronauta
(piston)
Chico Batera, Papete
(percussion)
Regional do Evandro

Track List

01 - Caminhemos (Herivelto Martins)
02 - Estrada Nova (Marília Medalha / Roberta Faro)
03 - Deus Me Perdoe (Lauro Maia / Humberto Teixeira)
04 - Perseguição (Carlos Maia / Avelino de Souza)
05 - Fim do Mundo (Fagner / Fausto Nilo)
06 - Amanheci (Marília Medalha / Roberta Faro)
07 - Água Escondida (Marília Medalha / Roberta Faro)
08 - De Cigarro Em Cigarrro (Luis Bonfá)
09 - O Primeiro Clarim (Rutinaldo / Klécius Caldas) Mortalha Fria (Marília Medalha / Antônio C. Falcão)
10 - Caminhada (Marília Medalha / Roberta Faro)
11 - Xaxado de Espantar Tristeza (Marília Medalha / Vinicius de Moraes)

6 comments:

  1. Marília foi um dos artistas brasileiros perseguidos e que tiveram a carreira prejudicada pela ditadura, no caso dela mais pelas posições políticas do seu marido.
    outro artista que não conseguiu emplacar por perseguição foi o sirlã,
    você se lembra dele?

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  2. O nome Sirlã não soa totalmente novo aqui. Você podia falar um pouco mais sobre ele?

    Abraços, zeca

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  3. PQP!! I found out about this blog two days ago and I cannot sleep anymore. Congratulations for this amazing source of stuff I never thought I'd get.

    Now, one question: how can I not wait for the downloads at rapidshare?

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  4. Thanks for not sleeping! :-) To avoid Rapidshare waiting between downloads you should change your IP address between downloads. In most cases, it is just a matter of turn off your modem.

    The second option is subscribing for a Rapidshare premium account.

    Cheers, zeca

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  5. Zeca, you make it sound in your description that you're not that impressed with this period in Marilia's career. But this disc sounds great to me! It's a lovely production. I'm upgrading to the FLAC files right now.

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  6. This is o Hermeto on flute (I thinks)...not Hamleto. I never hears of hamleto before - just a make up name? Listen tk 3, about 3.10. This H flute style. Maybe can be checked? Che-e-rs.

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