Saturday, July 19, 2008

Cartola - Cartola 70 Anos (1979)

Hello, good evening! Tomorrow is Saturday and it has been a long time since we made one of those Saturdays with full focus and dedication to good Samba music. I’m brand new to Cartola and each new record I get for a spin seems to be better than the last one. Cartola music is sublime and although he is not essentially a Samba singer, his interpretations are sweet and sometimes moving. Perhaps we cannot make a Samba Saturday tomorrow, but at least we will cross the whole day with one of the most acclaimed Brazilian Samba legends ever. Let’s see.

This is Cartola – Cartola 70 Anos (1979), for RCA, celebrating Cartola 70th Anniversary and featuring renowned Brazilian musicians. Maestro Nelsinho is in charge of the arrangements and you can see Nelsinho in the right, besides Haroldo Barbosa and Sergio Cabral. Cartola performs his own compositions, including Ciencia e Arte (Cartola / Carlos Cachaca), recorded for Escola de Samba Estacao Primeira de Mangueira in 1949 and not selected by Mangueira leaders to be the official song of Carnaval parade on that year. The selection of Loronix Preview Center track is always difficult with Cartola albums, so I decided to just take the first track, O Inverno de Meu Tempo (Cartola / Roberto Nascimento). Tracks include:


Personnel

Maestro Nelsinho
(arrangements, trombone)
Sergio Carvalho
(organ)
Abel Ferreira
(alto sax, clarinet)
Waldir
(violao 7 cordas)
Neco
(violao, viola)
Alceu
(cavaquinho)
Luizao
(bass)
Wilson das Neves
(drums)
Marcal, Luna, Eliseu, Gilberto, Cuscus
(percussion)
Genaro, Stenio, Barbosa, Gordinho, Miriam Goulart, As Gatas
(choir)

Track List

01 - O Inverno do Meu Tempo (Cartola / Roberto Nascimento)
02 - A Cor da Esperança (Cartola / Roberto Nascimento)
03 - Feriado na Roça (Cartola)
04 - Ciência e Arte (Cartola / Carlos Cachaça)
05 - Senões (Cartola / Nuno Veloso)
06 - Mesma Estória (Cartola / Élton Medeiros)
07 - Fim de Estrada (Cartola)
08 - Enquanto Deus Consentir (Cartola)
09 - Dê-me Graças Senhora (Cartola / Cláudio Jorge)
10 - Evite Meu Amor (Cartola)
11 - Silêncio de Um Cipreste (Cartola / Carlos Cachaça)
12 - Bem Feito (Cartola)

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