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Most surprising of all Jobim's albums this one recorded in US in 1975
brings the spirit of the 70's in it's opening song Bôto in
which Jobim seem to use all possible Brazilian sounds, starting from berimbao,
various percussions and whistling, backed up by electric piano, strings
and strong 70's based arrangement with a lot of flutes and beautiful voice
of Miucha. Listening to this masterpiece, the one feels like being placed
somewhere in Amazona rain forrest listening to the strange sounds comming
from the weird animal life of South America. Excerpts from this wonderful
song later appear in Jobim's soundtrack for the film Gabriela and
also in the song of the same name from albums Passarim
and Rio Revisited. Then follows very jazzy version
of Ligia and somewhat more conventional Correnteza in which
Jobim also cites himself at the end where he uses phrase from Estrada
Branca - This Happy Madness. The final ballad
Angela
concludes this part. If you listened to this recording on conventional 12" record player, after turning
the record you'd be really suprised, because from the other side a real
symphony begins. That's right, a symphonic orchestra, arranged and conducted
by great Claus Ogerman makes you feel like listening to Mahler, Ravel or
Debussy, a real impressionistic image of how great composer Jobim sees
his homeland. This is a revelation for all classical music lovers and it
shows that in some other time Jobim would probably be a very serious
classical music composer, making symphonies that would now be performed
in operas all around the world.
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