Cartola - Cartola (1975)

Hello, good evening! I'm starting this Sunday with a beauty of an album that deserves to be the main post of the night. I could not wait longer to show it to Loronixers so great is my enthusiasm with this little record that was abandoned on my closet for many months. This is Cartola debut LP, recorded when he had the age of 65. You should take this one for a try, even if you do not understand Portuguese or are not a Samba fan. I recommend. Let's see.

This is Cartola - Cartola (1975), for Marcus Pereira. It is amazing that Cartola, which started his career in the 30's, could only record his first album in 1975. Cartola sings his own compositions and how beautiful is his singing, he was recorded many renowned Brazilian artists across decades and now I'm sure the best Cartola interpreter is Cartola. The session had Maestro Horondino Jose da Silva, also known as Dino Sete Cordas, in charge of the arrangements and musicians were all credited by Marcus Pereira label. Tracks include:

Personnel

Horondino Jose da Silva
Dino Sete Cordas
(violao sete cordas, arrangements)
Jayme Thomas Florencio
Meira
(violao)
Waldiro Frederico Tramontano
Canhoto
(cavaquinho)
Raul Machado de Barros
Raul de Barros
(trombone)
Nicolino Copia
Copinha
(flute)
Gilberto D'Avila
Gilberto
(surdo, pandeiro)
Nilton Delfino Marcal
Marcal
(cuica, caixa de fosforos)
Roberto Bastos Pinheiro
Luna
(tamborim, agogo)
Jorge Jose da Silva
Jorginho
(pandeiro, caxixi)
Wilson Canegal
(ganza, reco-reco)
Joab Lopes Teixeira
Joab
(choir)

Track List

01 - Disfarca e Chora (Cartola / Dalmo Casteli)
02 - Sim (Cartola / Oswaldo Martins)
03 - Corra e Olhe o Ceu (Cartola / Dalmo Casteli)
04 - Acontece (Cartola)
05 - Tive Sim (Cartola)
06 - O Sol Nascera (Cartola / Elton Medeiros)
07 - Alvorada (Cartola / Carlos Cachaca / Herminio Bello de Carvalho)
08 - Festa da Vinda (Cartola / Nuno Veloso)
09 - Quem me ve Sorrindo (Cartola / Carlos Cachaca)
10 - Amor Proibido (Cartola)
11 - Ordenes e Farei (Cartola / Aluisio Dias)
12 - Alegria (Cartola)

Joao Roberto Kelly - Joao Roberto Kelly (1974)

I spent a great time with Tranka last Friday, he told me that Joao Roberto Kelly is celebrating this month 50th years of a great artist career dedicated to Brazilian music. Joao Roberto Kelly is a great composer, great musician and this is Loronix homage to the 50th anniversary of Joao Roberto Kelly artist career, by the way, today is Saturday and Saturday is Loronix Samba day. Let's see.

This is Joao Roberto Kelly - Joao Roberto Kelly (1974), for Odeon, featuring Joao Roberto Kelly performing the best of his repertoire, including the well-known 06 - Boato, 12 - Gamacao and the track that I like most on this album, available at Loronix Preview Center 10 - Fogo de Palha. Maestro Geraldo Vespar delivers unique arrangments to Joao Roberto Kelly songs. Odeon did not credit personnel. Tracks include:

01 - Está Com Raiva (João Roberto Kelly)
02 - Le Sambon (Ulalá) (J. D. Bicalho / Paulo Gesta)
03 - Sambeiro de Ipanema (João Roberto Kelly)
04 - Dor de Cotovelo (João Roberto Kelly)
05 - Rapaz Folgado (Noel Rosa)
06 - Boato (João Roberto Kelly)
07 - Fina Flor do Zepellim (João Roberto Kelly)
08 - Hippie de Boutique (João Roberto Kelly)
09 - Mormaço (João Roberto Kelly)
10 - Fogo de Palha (João Roberto Kelly)
11 - Frankstein (Wilson Batista)
12 - Gamação (João Roberto Kelly)

Saraiva - Sucesso em Alta Tensao (1968)

Hello, good evening! Loronix (myself) and everybody who that use Velox SP were unable to reach Rapidshare.com domain. This is the reason why we did not have new music yesterday. The problem lasts 24 hours and it is very nice to make new music available at Loronix after such hiatus. The friends who use CBox, the popular Quadradinho, were of a great help on giving continuous status reports and this post is dedicated to CBox friends, featuring a requested artist on that little nice space. Let's see.

This is Saraiva - Sucesso em Alta Tensao (1968), for Copacabana, presented here with a later Copacabana subsidiary label SOM reissue. Saraiva delivers a blend of Samba, Choro and all sorts of style on several groovy tracks with lots of clarinet playing, accordion and even a Hammond B3 organ. Sucesso em Alta Tensao took me by surprise, it is the kind of album that saves your day in the morning. I think after this album, Saraiva will get new fans, enthusiastic fans like our great friend kinoterra. Tracks include:

01 - Saraivando Pelo Brasil (Luis dos Santos / Walter Sperandeo)
02 - Sem Você (Clóvis de Lima / Ubirajara)
03 - Sobre o Céu da Bahia (Luis dos Santos / J. Luna)
04 - Ana Sempre Te Amei (Luis dos Santos / J. Luna)
05 - Tabú Corintiano (Luis dos Santos / Neilor de Oliveira)
06 - Náutico Capibaribi (Luis dos Santos / Santos Jr.)
07 - Mágoas de Acordeomista (Luis dos Santos / R. Caruso)
08 - Coração de Mulher (Luis dos Santos / Gentil da Silva)
09 - Miranda no Choro (Ivan Pires / Miranda)
10 - Caserna Em Festa (Luis dos Santos / Norberto de Freitas)
11 - Sofro Por Causa Dela (Luis dos Santos / G. da Costa)
12 - Saudade dos Meus Conterrâneos (Luis dos Santos / Apolonio R. Pinheiro)

Music Video | Zimbo Trio

Some minor cosmetic improvements are being implemented with this music video. You should feel the difference, in spite of having all your attention dragged to this awesome film, featuring Zimbo Trio jamming on a Brazilian TV show called Studio Showlivre.

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Let's Vote! | Feedback on Loronix Preview Center

Hello, good evening! Loronix Preview Center is now stable and I want to ask for your feedback. I found a great poll service that should make it on a great and different way. The folks from Ask 500 People will collect our votes and use the Google map above to place pins on each vote around the globe. It will be very fun to see the results and also pin distribution across the map.

It is only a matter of following this link VOTE, click on the green word VOTE in the upper left corner and send your feedback. Let's make more than 500 hundred Loronixers votes at the great Ask 500 People service. Thanks in advance for your participation.

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Varios Artistas - Nova Bossa Nova (1972)

I think most of you had already the chance to know Folklore and Bossa Nova do Brazil (1966), with a studio recording of an anthological tour of Bossa Nova artists in Germany, featuring Chico Batera, Dom Salvador, Edu Lobo, J.T. Meirelles, Jorge Arena, Rosinha de Valenca, Rubens Bassini and Sylvia Telles. What I did not know, in spite of seen more than a hundred times this fantastic cover at Caetano Rodrigues Bossa Nova book, was the existance of a second tour with another studio record called Nova Bossa Nova, presented here with a great surprise of mine and probably yours, especially by the unusual mix of performers. Let's see.

This is Nova Bossa Nova (1972), for MPS (Germany), featuring our last challenge answer with Maria Bethania, Paulinho da Viola, Sebastiao Tapajos, Jorge Arena and Pedro "Sorongo" Santos. I'm presenting here the original Germany MPS Records release and I heard about an equivalent Brazilian release by Copacabana, not confirmed information. Nova Bossa Nova should make the day of several segments with lots of percussion by Jorge Arena and Sorongo, instrumental cuts with Sebastiao Tapajos violao with bass, drums and piano of Terra Trio, the singing of Maria Bethania and the always-elegant Samba delivered by Paulinho da Viola. Tracks include:

The Performers

Jorge Arena
Maria Bethania
Paulinho da Viola
Pedro Santos
Sebastião Tapajós
Terra Trio

Track List

01 - Gurungungô (Pedro Santos) with Pedro Santos / Sebastião Tapajós / Jorge Arena
02 - Asa Branca (Luis Gonzaga / Humberto Teixeira) Cariri (João do Vale) Bodoco (Gordurinha) with Maria Bethânia / Terra Trio
03 - Tocata Em Ritmo Samba (Sebastião Tapajós) with Sebastião Tapajós
04 - Um Certo Dia Para 21 (Paulinho da Viola) with Jorge Arena / Pedro Santos / Paulinho da Viola
05 - Ganga (Sebastião Tapajós) with Pedro Santos / Jorge Arena / Sebastião Tapajós
06 - Variaçones (Sebastião Tapajós) with Sebastião Tapajós / Jorge Arena / Pedro Santos
07 - Nós e o Mar (Roberto Menescal / Ronaldo Bôscoli) with Terra Trio
08 - Num Samba Curto (Paulinho da Viola) with Terra Trio / Jorge Arena / Sebastião Tapajós / Paulinho da Viola
09 - Não Tem Solução (Dorival Caymmi) with Maria Bethânia / Terra Trio
10 - Madrugada (Paulinho da Viola) with Terra Trio / Jorge Arena / Sebastião Tapajós / Paulinho da Viola / Pedro Santos

Conjunto Melodico Norberto Baldauf - Weekend no Rio Nr. 2 (1958)

The Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul is the home of renowned Brazilian artists, such as Manfredo Fest, Primo, Breno Sauer, Os Farroupilhas, Norberto Baldauf, Elis Regina, and many others. This picture is an example, published last year as a challenge; you can see Conjunto Melodico Norberto Baudalf and a very young Elis Regina. Weekend no Rio Nr. 2 is one of the first Norberto Baldauf records in the 12-inch format. Let's see.

This is Conjunto Melodico Norberto Baldauf - Weekend no Rio Nr. 2 (1958), for Odeon, courtesy of the most solid contributor in the Para Dancar style, our friend Mauro R. V. Side A features nine songs with no tracks separation, such like the old Para Dancar records of the early 50's released in the 10-inch format. Side B brings traditional approach with individual tracks. Tracks include:

01 - Tu (Ary Barroso)
02 - Sueno Azul (T. Barcsi)
03 - Sabra Dios (A. Carrilho)
04 - Carnavalito (E. P. Zaldivar)
05 - Vou Vender Meu Barco (Antônio V. dos Santos / Marinho C. Lima)
06 - Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes)
07 - Mama Looka Boo Boo (F. Alexander)
08 - É Lucho Só (Ary Barroso / Luis Peixoto)
09 - Já Vai (R. Campos / Duba)
10 - The Continental (Conrad / H. Magidson)
11 - El Reloj (Roberto Cantoral)
12 - Around The World (H. Adamson / V. Young)
13 - Na Affair To Remember (H. Adamson / L. McCarey / T. Chandler / H. Warren)
14 - Porquê Você Casou (Edgardo Luis / Nilton Pereira)
15 - Por Causa de Você (Tom Jobim / Dolores Duran)

Challenge | Who are they?

Hello, good evening! Challenge games are back after a couple of weeks on hiatus. Better start with a very easy one, where you will only need to identify the four musicians in this nice picture taken in front of Pao de Acucar in Rio de Janeiro. Meanwhile, I will assist Loronix engineers on their duty, posts today are truly awesome.

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Doris Monteiro e Lucio Alves - no Projeto Pixinguinha (1978)

It has been a long time since we made an album by Lucio Alves and also by Doris Monteiro, and here we go addressing two issues on a single post, releasing an album with both artists as main performers. I always though this album was a live recording of their participation at Projeto Pixinguinha, however, this is a studio LP, featuring the repertoire of the series of concert made at Projeto Pixinguinha, a Brazilian cultural event that started in 1977 and ended in 1997. During this period, more than three hundred concerts were performed and everything was recorded by Funarte, which is today in the process of transferring everything to digital, almost 5,000 songs. I hope one day these concert recordings be available to public.

This is Doris Monteiro e Lucio - Doris e Lucio no Projeto Pixinguinha (1978), for Odeon. I think I don't need to say more, Doris Monteiro and Lucio Alves are one of the most requested artists by Loronixers and I'm sure this album should make the day of many friends. Tracks include:

Personnel

Edson Aladim
(drums)
Lito
(bass)
Cesar Mota
(guitar)
Ricardo Albano Junior
(piano)

Track List

01 - Mudando de Conversa (Maurício Tapajós / Hermínio Bello de Carvalho) with Lúcio Alves / Doris Monteiro
02 - Pra Dizer Adeus (Edu Lobo / Torquato Neto) with Lúcio Alves
03 - Conversa de Botequim (Noel Rosa / Vadico) with Doris Monteiro
04 - Sábado Em Copacabana (Dorival Caymmi) Duas Contas (Garoto / Carlos Guinle) with Lúcio Alves
05 - Se Você Se Importasse (Peterpan) with Doris Monteiro
06 - Razão de Viver (Eumir Deodato / Paulo Sergio Valle) with Lúcio Alves
07 - De Conversa Em Conversa (Haroldo Barbosa / Lúcio Alves) with Lúcio Alves / Doris Monteiro
08 - É Isso Aí (Sidney Miller) Alô Fevereiro (Sidney Miller) with Doris Monteiro
09 - Garota de Ipanema (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes) with Lúcio Alves
10 - Dó-ré-mi (Fernando César) Graças a Deus (Fernando César) with Doris Monteiro
11 - Valsa de Uma Cidade (Ismael Netto / Antônio Maria) with Lúcio Alves
12 - Mocinho Bonito (Billy Blanco) with Doris Monteiro
12. Mocinho Bonito (Billy Blanco) with Doris Monteiro

Dick Farney - Dick Farney em Cancoes para a Noite de Meu Bem (1960)

Hello, good evening! I'm now very happy that Balanco Trio LP has now a better place at Loronix front page. I like that album and Luiz Harding confirmation, my guess on Milton Banana is confirmed. Thanks Luiz and thanks everybody who engage of comment section. Well, the show must go on and there is nothing better than start this Tuesday with one an album that I did not know from one of the artists that I like most, Dick Farney. Let's see.

This is Dick Farney - Cancoes para a Noite de Meu Bem, com Waldemiro Lemke e Sua Orquestra (1960), for Odeon. In a first sight, I thought this was a tribute to Dolores Duran by the reference of Dolores Duran song a Noite do Meu Bem, but Dick Farney plays piano, sings in Portuguese, English and has the accompaniment of an orchestra in charge of Maestro Waldemiro Lemke. I'm surprised with this perhaps unknown Dick Farney album that I never had the chance to hear before. This post is dedicated to the greatest Dick Farney fan on planet Earth and probably the solar system, our great friend cvllos. Tracks include:

01 - A Noite do Meu Bem (Dolores Duran)
02 - Esquecendo Você (Tom Jobim)
03 - Amor Sem Adeus (Luis Bonfá / Tom Jobim)
04 - All The Way (S. Cahn / J. V. Hensen)
05 - With Every Breath I Take (L. Robin / R. Rainger)
06 - My Funny Valentine (R. Rodgers / L. Hart)
07 - Este Seu Olhar (Tom Jobim)
08 - Franqueza (Denis Brean / Osvaldo Guilherme)
09 - Conselho (Denis Brean / Osvaldo Guilherme)
10 - Easy To Remember (R. Rogers / L. Hart)
11 - You Go To My Head (H. Gillespie / J. F. Coots)
12 - Autumn In New York (V. Duke)