Nilo Sergio, Sua Orquestra e Vozes - Isto e Romance (1962)

Hello, good evening! This is considered by many the best album released by Nilo Sérgio, an important figure in Brazilian popular music. Singer and composer, Nilo Sergio made history as the creator of an independent record label that was always ahead of its time, the legendary Musidisc. This really nice record company released important artists; Trio Surdina is a perfect example. Musidisc was also the record label that started and frequently used artists from other labels hidden by fake names and even artists under contract with Musidisc using English names as a marketing strategy, such like Bob Fleming, the fake name used by Moacyr Silva and Zito Righi to release several blockbusters at Musidisc. Let's see.

This is Nilo Sergio, Sua Orquestra e Vozes - Isto e Romance (1962), for Musidisc, featuring the not credited participation of Ed Lincoln as an organist and probably a maestro in charge of instrumental and voice arrangements. I had a nice week and I hope we will have together a special weekend with our family and friends. I'm leaving and stay tuned for another Brazilian music weekend, probably a "Samba Saturday", which is something still requested by many friends. Tracks include:


Track List

01 - Romantic Partners (Nilo Sergio)
02 - Pescadores de Pérolas (G. Bizet)
03 - Marias de Portugal (Nilo Sergio)
04 - I Love Brahms (3ª Sinfonia) (Brahms)
05 - Sanson Et Dalila (C. Saint / Saes)
06 - Lago dos Cisnes (Tchaikovsky)
07 - My Prayer (Boulanger / Kennedy)
08 - Canção dos Vagabundos (Nilo Sergio)
09 - Serenata (Shubert)
10 - Canção Para Um Homem no Espaço (Nilo Sergio)
11 - Espiral (Nilo Sergio / Ed Lincoln)
12 - I Concetrate On You (Cole Porter)

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Lyrio Panicali - Lyrio Panicali faz Samba em 2 Tempos (1967)

Hello, good evening! I'm really glad to present another Lyrio Panicali career LP never made available before at Loronix. By the way, the last album with Lyrio Panicali as main performer was released in the remote November 2007, exactly 16 months ago. I made a quick examination at Lyrio Panicali discography and I'm happy to know that we still have several albums never released in CD to show. Some of these albums I never had the chance to see how the cover looks like. Anyway, Maestro Lyrio Panicali is a really special artist and I urge Loronix community to pay attention to this release. I will tell you. Let's see.

This is Lyrio Panicali - Lyrio Panicali faz Samba em 2 Tempos (1967), for Codil Ritmos, featuring Orquestra de Sopros da Radio Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura. This album can easily cheat you at a first sight, but as soon as you spin the first track you understand that you are in front of something very similar to Panicali's Nova Dimensao, an acclaimed album by Samba Jazz fans. This one is very similar and Lyrio Panicali is in front of an Orchestra made of professional musicians from Radio Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura, including the legendary K-Ximbinho. Believe-me, if you are looking for Samba tunes performed by an orchestra with Samba Jazz beat and drumming, this is really worth checking. Tracks include:

Personnel

Lyrio Panicali
(piano, arrangements, direction)
Waldyr Brito
(flute)
Sebastiao Barros AKA K-Ximbinho
(clarinet)
Giuseppe Sergi
(claroni)
Canuto Pizziali, Jose G de Moura
(trumpet)
Mario Roxo, Waldemar G de Moura
(trombone)
Jose Miranda Pinto, Pedro Nogueira Filho
(alto sax)
Fernando Barros Pinto, Adherbal Moreira, Lupercilio Lyra
(tenor sax)
Francisco Monteiro Filho
(baritone sax)
Pedro Vidal Ramos
(bass)
Luiz Gonzaga Bittencourt
(guitar)
Sebastiao Vieira Gomes
(percussion)
Juvenal Nunes Sampaio Sobrinho
(drums)

Track List

01 - Bahia (Roberto Menescal / Ronaldo Bôscoli)
02 - Marina (Dorival Caymmi)
03 - Último Desejo (Noel Rosa)
04 - Eu Sem Maria (Dorival Caymmi)
05 - Fita Amarela (Noel Rosa)
06 - Rio (Roberto Menescal / Ronaldo Bôscoli)
07 - Peguei Um Ita no Norte (Dorival Caymmi)
08 - Preciso Aprender a Ser Só (Marcos Valle / Paulo Sergio Valle)
09 - Feitiço da Vila (Noel Rosa)
10 - Das Rosas (Dorival Caymmi)
11 - Feitio de Oração (Noel Rosa / Vadico)
12 - Samba de Verão (Marcos Valle / Paulo Sergio Valle)

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Milton Banana - O Ritmo e o Som da Bossa Nova (1963)

Hello, good evening! I had a day with some surprises, good and bad surprises. Evaluating these ups and downs, I think the balance was not very good, and the best thing to do on these days is to sleep early and wake up on a better shape. However, I'm very happy with the sequel of albums made available at Loronix. Take a look at the last five or eight posts and you should agree with me. We had excellent albums and most of them never had a chance of being reissued on CD.

I believe I made the right choice postponing my sleep time for a few hours. I'm feeling much better right now, especially remembering this album, which is one of the first made available at Loronix and a very important Brazilian instrumental music album featuring Milton Banana, the creator of Bossa Nova drumming style, backed by another legend of the movement, Oscar Castro Neves and Conjunto. This is a required update that you cannot miss. Let's see.

This is Milton Banana e Conjunto de Oscar Castro Neves - O Ritmo e O Som da Bossa Nova (1963), for Audio Fidelity, now available with the original first AF 1984 edition with Milton Banana with the name that made his fame instead of Miltinho from the US release. Conjunto de Oscar Castro Neves is a quartet, but other musicians were in this session and they did not received credits by Audio Fidelity. This is one of those self-explanatory albums. Tracks include:

Personnel

MILTON BANANA
(drums)

CONJUNTO DE OSCAR CASTRO NEVES

Oscar Castro Neves
(piano)
Iko Castro Neves
(bass)
Henry Perci Wilcox
(guitar)
Roberto Pontes Dias
(percussion)
Leo Wright
(flute, sax)

Track List

01 - Você e Eu (Carlos Lyra / Vinicius de Moraes)
02 - Bossa Nova Blues (Oscar Castro Neves)
03 - Não Faz Assim (Oscar Castro Neves)
04 - Influência do Jazz (Carlos Lyra)
05 - Desafinado (Tom Jobim / Newton Mendonça)
06 - O Amor e a Rosa (Pernambuco / Antônio Maria)
07 - O Apito no Samba (Luis Bandeira / Luis Antônio)
08 - Chora Tua Tristeza (Oscar Castro Neves / Luvercy Fiorini)
09 - O Menino Desce o Morro (De Rosa / Vera Brasil)
10 - Chega de Saudade (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes)
11 - Boato (João Roberto Kelly)
12 - Samba de Uma Nota Só (Tom Jobim / Newton Mendonça)

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Nelly Martins & Tito Madi - Encontro no Sabado (1959)

Hello, good evening! I'm confident that many friends will be surprised with this album, such like us. I'm saying us because my transfers are now different from the way it was. Now I have an audience, a small, but very influent audience. They try to influence my choices and also make recommendations for future releases by digging my collection. This album provoked a very interest reaction on my small board of advisors, as soon as the transfer ended, they requested another spin, which was an appropriate request, this record is really amazing, Tito Madi and the surprising Nelly Martins worked as a team delivering a beauty of an album that you cannot miss. Let's see.

This is Nelly Martins & Tito Madi - Encontro no Sabado (1959), for Continental. The information available about Nelly Martins was very limited on my computer and something very strange happened when I started searching Google. The website which provided better details on Nelly Martins was Loronix, really. Nelly Martins appears on a very old challenge post accompanied by Lúcio Alves, Johnny Alf and and Tito Madi, available here or at the picture in your left.

Additionally, Loronix comment section told me that Nelly Martins was married with the mighty Maestro Radames Gnattali, which is also the arranger of Encontro no Sabado.

Nelly Martins did not leave many records, only some 78RPMs and two LPs, Encontro no Sabado (this album) and an amazing instrumental piano album recorded in duo with Radames Gnattali, Radames Gnattali & Nelly Martins - Piano Duo (1967). What a nice story. Nelly Gnattali is also a gifted pianist and today works on preserving the memory of Radames Gnattali. Part of her work is available at Radames Gnattali official website, here. And as a last minute information, I found a YouTube video with Nelly Martins singing and Radames Gnattali performing at the piano, here. I said this post is amazing! Tracks include:


01 - Encontro no Sábado (Tito Madi / Georges Henry)
02 - Se (Mário Albanese / Nagib Nader)
03 - Quero-te Assim (Tito Madi)
04 - Faz Tanto Tempo (Tito Madi)
05 - Por Que (Pedro Dellober)
06 - És Tu (Domicio Augusto / Milton Silva)
07 - Eu e Você (Tito Madi)
08 - Esquece-me (Gabriel Migliori / Hélio Prado)
09 - Olha-me Diga-me (Tito Madi)
10 - Palavras ao Vento (Sergio Malta)
11 - Que Coisa Louca (C'est Magnifique) (Cole Porter / Vrs. João de Barro)
12 - Tu e Eu (Altamiro Carrilho / Armando Nunes)

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My apologies, the back cover was not included. You can grab it here, with no Rapidshare. Thanks!

Radames Gnattali - Joias Musicais Brasileiras (1954)

Hello, good evening! My Internet access stills very limited with extremely slow upload rates. I did not want to keep Loronix with no updates today and my solution was gathering a 10-inch album, which is not an issue since we have truly amazing albums to explore in the format. This one is a perfect example, this is the second LP released by Maestro Radames Gnattali at Continental. For reasons that I cannot understand Radames Gnattali name is not available at the front cover, just like the first one. It is necessary to read the back cover for this information. I would like to remember that covers and individual tracks are always available at the end my writings as individual downloads; the covers are available as direct download links with no Rapidshare. Let's see.


This is Radames Gnattali - Joias Musicais do Brasil (1954), for Continental, featuring Radames Gnattali selections. arrangements and piano. A small and not credited band makes the accompaniement. All my searches on this album failured, which was the way I choose to retrieve credit information on the good musicians we have here, especially the guitar and accordion player. Tracks include:

01 - Rancho Fundo (Ary Barroso / Lamartine Babo)
02 - Despertar da Montanha (Eduardo Souto)
03 - Casinha Pequenina (Tradicional)
04 - Luar de Paquetá (Hermes Fontes / Freire Júnior)
05 - Nuvens (Eduardo Souto)
06 - Carinhoso (Pixinguinha / João de Barro)
07 - Guacyra (Hekel Tavares / Joracy Camargo)
08 - Linda Flor (Henrique Vogeler / Cândido Costa / Luiz Peixoto)

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Tempo Trio - Tempo Trio (1965)

Hello, good evening! I had an intense and very busy day this Friday. I got rid of a lot of paper without any remorse. I could also setup my new working environment and made the fist transfer at my new place.

As nothing is perfect, this new disc cannot be shown today. Blame it on my Internet connection, limited to a maximum of 30Kbps upload speed.

Meanwhile, I found an album requested by many Loronix friends featuring an instrumental combo from Minas Gerais state. I'm keeping my original text written in August 2006. Let's see.

This is Tempo Trio - Tempo Trio (1965), for London, highly recommended by a very good friend of mine. Tracks include:

Personnel

Helvius Vilela
(piano)
Paulo Horta
(bass)
Paschoal Meirelles
(drums)

Track List

01 - Tudo de Você (Marcos Valle / Paulo Sergio Valle)
02 - Menino das Laranjas (Theo de Barros)
03 - ''Tema de Morro'' Enquanto a Tristeza Não Vem (Sergio Ricardo) Feio Não É Bonito (Carlos Lyra / Gianfrancesco Guarnieri) O Morro Nçao Tem Vez (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes)
04 - Aleluia (Edu Lobo / Ruy Guerra)
05 - Terra de Ninguém (Marcos Valle / Paulo Sergio Valle)
06 - Carcara (João do Vale / José Cândido)
07 - Tempo Quente (Helvius Vilela Borges)
08 - Gente (Marcos Valle / Paulo Sergio Valle)
09 - ''Tema de Maria'' Maria (Ary Barroso / Luis Peixoto) Mania de Maria (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo) Maria Ninguém (Carlos Lyra) Maria Moita (Vinicius de Moraes / Carlos Lyra) Reza (Eduardo Lobo / Ruy Guerra)
10 - Curta Metragem (Maurício Einhorn / Arnaldo Costa)
11 - E a Gente Sonhando (Milton Nascimento)
12 - Borandá (Edu Lobo)


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Dolores Duran - Dolores Duran Viaja (1955)

Hello, good afternoon! I will try to make two updates today, but if I fail, this album starts an interval of some days with no updates. I will be taking care of my move, finally scheduled for tomorrow at 10:30 in the morning.

The change will be made by a specialized company that charges the total hours spent to accomplish the change. For this monitoring, I developed an application that sends from my mobile phone to Loronix dedicated server the GPS coordinates of where I am in intervals of 5 minutes. These coordinates are stored on a mysql database and using Google Maps API, these coordinates are plot in a map, making it possible to watch the move in real time, including the route made to the future place.

Anyway, I would like to send a big THANK YOU to Mr. E. for his understanding of my process and the great help he made putting his professional skills in place to transfer this really rare album to the digital format. Mr. E. is my benchmark on vinyl ripping and cover artwork restoration. The day Mr. E decided to open a music blog, his site will be the KING and the benchmark Loronix will follow. Thanks Mr. E. Let's see.

This is Dolores Duran - Dolores Duran Viaja (1955), for Copacabana, in the 10-inch format, which is the first Dolores Duran LP. Mr. E. said he never had the chance to see this album before, so I'm confident to say this is a really rare release. Dolores Duran follows the concept of singing a repertoire with songs from several countries on different languages, which is something that she excels. Orquestra Copacabana backs Dolores Duran and the arrangements are in charge of Maestro Lindolpho Gaya and Mozart Brandao.

Dolores Duran Viaja has music from Chile, Canada, USA, Austria, Italy, Spain and Brazil, including the first recording of a song with lyrics in Esperanto, 05 - Nigraj Manteloj. Tracks include:

01 - Sinceridad (G. Perez)
02 - Ma Cabane Au Canada (C. Cohn / M. Brocey / L. Gasté)
03 - Kaiser Waltzer (J. Strauss)
04 - No Other Love (R. Rodgers / O. Hammerstein II)
05 - Nigraj Manteloj (Coimbra) (R. Ferrão / J. Galhardo / O. Baena)
06 - Vieni Sul Mar (Tradicional)
07 - Ojos Verdes (Valverde / León / Quiroga)
08 - Canção da Volta (Antônio Maria / Ismael Netto)

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Varios Artistas - Vitrine Odeon (no date)

I received an email from the owner of one of the coolest blogs I know, Toque Musical, which is now up and running on a new website, very similar to the previous one, but I recommend that you follow this link to make sure you will reach the right website, here: http://toque-musicall.blogspot.com. If you like Brazilian music and LPs, Toque Musical is mandatory.

TM (is that your name?) also said he made a long time ago Vitrine Odeon, and kindly sent to Loronix the scan of the original cover. Thanks TM for your great sharing spirit.

Good, the pieces are getting together, and now we need only Clovis Pereira - Ritmos Aluciantes and Elizeth Cardoso - Cancao de Amor audios. I want to thank TM for this update and also remind you again to reach his website at http://toque-musicall.blogspot.com.

Hello, good evening! Everything went wrong today and this is the reason why three covers are available. Perhaps it is the anticipated effect of the move, scheduled for Tuesday, next week, or perhaps just a coincidence. I had an amazing plan. I started with Elizeth Cardoso - Cancao de Amor (1957), a compilation released by Todamerica featuring Elizeth Cardoso phonograms taken from old 78rpm records. I heard it from the start until the end and liked a lot; the repertoire is awesome and features several Brazilian popular music standards.

Unfortunately, the output I got when transferring was really bad, several scratches and a strange background noise. I had to decline. If someone has this album and sharing spirit, please write me using the comment section or my email.

Recovered from Elizeth Cardoso's trauma, all my attention was turned to another target, a sough after album by Loronix community and LP collectors worldwide, which is Clovis Pereira Ritmos Alucinantes (1957), for the obscure label Repertorio. This is album brings the first Hermeto Pascoal recording as an instrumentalist.

However, I had another problem, the record inside was not Clovis Pereira, but a compilation released by Odeon featuring Aloysio de Oliveira telling the story of high fidelity on side B and various artists on side A. Almost losing my forces, I decided to make it and tell you this long story. Let's see.

This is Varios Artistas - Vitrine Odeon (no date), for Odeon, featuring Aloysio de Olivera e O Bando da Lua, Maestro Leo Peracchi, Fon-Fon e Sua Orquestra, Mario Reis, Francisco Alves, Steve Bernard e Seu Conjunto and the first track I had the chance to hear with Conjunto Brasil Sonoro, featuring Altamiro Carrilho (flute), Carlos Matos (violao), Chaim Lewak (piano), Agostinho Silva (organ), Norato (trombone), Chiquinho do Acordeom (acordion), Hans (oboe), Jayme Araujo (alto sax), Formiga (piston) e Netinho (clarinet), a constellation of Brazilian musicians.

I'm making Vitrine Odeon as a direct download with no Rapidshare.

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Fafa Lemos - Para Ouvir Dancando (1957)

Hello, good evening! It was difficult to decide for an album to be at the first page of Loronix today. All options were very good, solid, but this choice -- and perhaps the next ones -- is very important. I'm moving from my place to another. I'm leaving this apartment, the place I love and the place I'm living since the beginning of Loronix. The date of my move is still uncertain and can happen at any time. Thus, from now on, all albums at the first page should be very meaningful because Loronix will enter on a hiatus of five or more days until I get set on my new place and ready to continue. So, friends, if Loronix is not updated in the forthcoming days, this is the reason, I will be unplugged and in the middle of a very worrying process for anyone who collect LPs. Let's see.

This is Fafa Lemos - Para Ouvir Dancando (1957), for RCA Victor, featuring Fafa Lemos, a legendary Brazilian musician, member of the anthological Trio Surdina with Anibal Augusto Sardinha - Garoto - and Chiquinho do Acordeon. Fafa Lemos LPs are always delicious to hear, and I like this one very much. Fafa Lemos plays violin and delivers his "bossa nova" singing on four tracks. Fafa Lemos is backed by a "conjunto" and the musicians were not credited by RCA Victor. Don't let the "Para Dancar" title cheats you, it is just a marketing approach. Tracks include:

01 - Meu Guarda-chuva (Ubenor Santos / Amâncio de Morais) Fafa Lemos sings
02 - Granfino (Fafá Lemos)
03 - Meu Panamá (Alcebíades Nogueira) Fafa Lemos sings
04 - Rosita (A. Stuart / P. Dupont)
05 - Canarinho Feliz (Hot Canari) (P. Nero)
06 - Joãozinho Boa Pinta (Haroldo Lobo / Geraldo Jacques) Fafa Lemos sings
07 - Cigano no Baião (Garoto)
08 - Se Alguém Disser (Ismael Netto / Reinaldo Dias Leme) Fafa Lemos sings

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Chico Buarque de Hollanda - Volume 3 (1968)

Hello, good evening! A friend of mine, very connected to Brazilian music scene, with access to virtually all artists, said the only artist that left nervous and anxious when contacting was Chico Buarque. He said this thing a couple of years ago and I did not understand why by that time. Today, with Loronix, this statement came to my mind and his anguish is now clear. Chico Buarque is one of the greatest Brazilian artists in activity, able to move successfully between different artistic manifestations, including the challenging terrain of literature. Above all, Chico Buarque is an artist with respect to his own beliefs, a very intelligent man. His work was long available commercially through the release of all his discography in a box set. This is the reason his music is not represented here like other artists. I am very happy to make this album, the third out three Chico Buarque initial releases for RGE, considered by many his best releases. Let's see.

This is Chico Buarque de Hollanda - Volume 3 (1968), for RGE, featuring orchestra and arrangements by Maestro Lindolpho Gaya and important participations of Toquinho, MPB-4 and recording debut of Chico Buarque sister, Cristina Buarque. Volume 3 features several well-known Chico Buarque compositions, including Retrato em Branco e Preto (Chico Buarque / Antonio Carlos Jobim), Roda Viva (Chico Buarque), Funeral de um Lavrador (Chico Buarque / Joao Cabral de Melo Neto) and my favorite Carolina (Chico Buarque). Sadly, musicians were not credited by RGE. Tracks include:

01 - Ela Desatinou (Chico Buarque)
02 - Retrato Em Branco e Preto (Tom Jobim / Chico Buarque)
03 - Januária (Chico Buarque)
04 - Desencontro (Chico Buarque) with TOQUINHO
05 - Carolina (Chico Buarque)
06 - Roda Viva (Chico Buarque) with MPB-4
07 - O Velho (Chico Buarque)
08 - Até Pensei (Chico Buarque)
09 - Sem Fantasia (Chico Buarque) with CRISTINA BUARQUE
10 - Até Segunda-feira (Chico Buarque)
11 - Funeral de Um Lavrador (Chico Buarque / João Cabral de Melo Neto)
12 - Tema Para ''Morte e Vida Severina'' (Chico Buarque)

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