Jards Macale - Aprender a Nadar (1974)

I had lunch today in a place that always brings very good memories from my early days. It is a restaurant, better a small shop inside a mall at Largo do Machado in Rio de Janeiro. I could remember what happened when I was there for the last time; I had the chance to talk several minutes with an artist that we use to call as a “multimedia” artist here in Brazil, Wally Solomão, poet, composer, writer and music producer, among several other things. I arrived home decided to make this album available to our community, perfect timing for another great contribution from the mighty AdHoc, and perhaps the best album recorded by Jards Macale, which includes several Wally Salomão compositions, credited here as Wally Sailormoon. Thanks Adhoc. Let’s see.

This is Jards Macale – Aprender a Nadar (1974), for Philips, produced by Jards Macale and Wally Sailormoon and arranged by Jards Macale. Aprender a Nadar comes with superb AdHoc quality standards, featuring perfect transfer, high quality cover scans, personnel and complimentary information on track listing. AdHoc takes the control today and introduces additional info and track listing, just before musicians in this really nice session. Tracks include:

Personnel

Ion Muniz
(flute)
Wagner Tiso
(electric and acoustic piano)
Luiz Alves
(electric and acoustic bass)
Robertinho Silva
(drums, percussion)
Pedro "Sorongo" dos Santos, Luis Carlos, Chacal, Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro, Ze da Cuica
(percussion)
Dino 7 Cordas
(violao 7 cordas)
Meira
(violao)
Canhoto
(cavaquinho)
Chiquito
(violao, guitar)
Claudinho
(guitar)
Jards Macale
(violao)
Aloisio Milanes
(piano)
Rubao Sabino
(bass)
Tuti Moreno
(drums)
Wally Sailormoon
(porta, chaves, vocal)
Perinho Albuquerque
(chaves, violao)

Additional info and track listing by AdHoc.

This is the 1994 CD reissue by Rock Company Records (RCCD 05)

In the original LP, "Estatutos da Gafieira" (track 07) was embedded in the end of "Dona do Castelo" (track 06) and "Dois Corações" (track 13) in the end of "Boneca Semiótica" (track 12). The two embedded songs were not mentioned on the track list. "Mora na Filosofia" (played in track 9 as an instrumental in the introduction and between the verses of "E Daí?") was not credited on the track list either. In the 1994 CD reissue, credit was given to the three songs on the CD label, but not in the booklet (elsewhere in this pack).

Track List

01 - Jards Anet da Vida (Jards Macalé based on a text by Gilberto Gil) - Dois Corações (Herivelto Martins / Waldemar Gomes) - No Meio do Mato (Jards Macalé) - O Faquir da Dor (Jards Macalé based on a text by Wally Sailormoon)
02 - Rua Real Grandeza (Jards Macalé / Wally Sailormoon)
03 - Pam Pam Pam (Paulo da Portela)
04 - Imagens (Valzinho / Orestes Barbosa)
05 - Anjo Exterminado (Jards Macalé / Wally Sailormoon)
06 - Dona do Castelo (Jards Macalé / Wally Sailormoon)
07 - Estatuto da Gafieira (Billy Blanco)
08 - Mambo da Cantareira (Barbosa da Silva / Eloide Warthon)
09 - E Daí? (Miguel Gustavo) - Mora na Filosofia (Monsueto Menezes / Arnaldo Passos)
10 - Orora Analfabeta (Gordurinha / Nascimento Gomes)
11 - Senhor dos Sábados (Jards Macalé / Wally Sailormoon)
12 - Boneca Semiótica (Jards Macalé / Rogério Duarte / Duda / Ricardo Chacal)
13 - Dois Corações (Herivelto Martins / Waldemar Gomes)