MARISA MONTE - UNIVERSO AO MEU REDOR (2006)

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Mesmo não concordando com a crítica abaixo, não poderia deixar de publicá-la, por ser este um espaço livre para opiniões de todos.

METENDO O PAU

Depois que a tragédia musical chamada Os Tribalistas foi lançada, a crítica ficou à espera do próximo disco de Marisa Monte. O motivo era simples. Todo queriam saber a cantora teria finalmente sucumbido à loucura. Ou talvez, aquilo não passasse de uma alucinação coletiva.Bem, Marisa Monte resolveu lançar nada menos que dois discos ao mesmo tempo: Infinito Particular e Universo Ao Meu Redor. São dois álbuns completamente diferentes. Por isso, a ZeroZen resolveu fazer duas críticas pelo preço de uma. Antes de mais nada é preciso dizer que Universo Ao Meu Redor é o disco mais corajoso de Marisa Monte. Sério. Não deu certo. Não funcionou mesmo. Mas não se pode negar que a cantora fez pelo menos um esforço para sair da mesmice. Na verdade, Universo ao meu redor é um disco de samba por um cantora que não sabe cantar sabe cantar samba. E isso fica claro. Na verdade, como a ZeroZen já disse antes Marisa é a falsa baiana (que não bole/ não geme nem nada/ não sabe deixar a mocidade louca). O pior de tudo é que Marisa Monte teve mesmo uma grande idéia. Afinal de contas qual a cantora brasileira da atualidade que teria coragem de cantar samba? Pois é, quem diria que fazer samba no brasil parece ser o máximo em ousadia. De qualquer maneira, ao invés de se socorrer, por exemplo, de toda a velha guarda da portela e gravar músicas antológicas, Marisa optou ppor chamar seu indefectíveis parceiros dos tribalistas.Não podia dar certo. E não deu. Ambos não são sambistas, não têm a malandragem do morro. Para piorar, Marisa Monte tenta o tempo todo emular o suíngue do samba carioca. O resultado é desastroso. Às vezes, parece que ela fez o disco para impressionar a velha guarda da Portela. Como se sabe, Marisa foi recusada na velha guarda por ser considerada velha demais...Porém, três músicas merecem destaque: Perdoa, Meu Amor (Casemiro Vieira), Para mais Ninguém (Paulinho da Viola), Pétalas Esquecidas (D. Yvonne Lara, Teresa Batista). Todas, claro, feitas por gente que entende do riscado. Ainda vale destacar Três Letrinhas (Moraes Moreira/Galvão), canção simpática e com um belo arranjo. Apesar de Marisa Monte se parecer com uma Clara Nunes chapada de prozac, Universo Ao Meu Redor, verdade seja dita, é menos ruim do que Infinito Particular.
(J. Tavares)

IN ENGLISH

Marisa Monte's voice and phrasing are as warm and beautiful here as you'd expect from her previous CDs. What makes this release cold and unsatisfying is its lack of any feeling of rapport between MM and anyone else on the album. It's not uncommon in the music industry for instruments to be recorded long after the vocal tracks, but this album really *sounds* that way. Sadly, the arrangements are also way too self-conscious and arch. David Byrne didn't produce the album, but appears on its weakest track ("Statue of Liberty"), and seems to have inspired the producers to approach the material with inappropriate irony. Electronica sound effects and campy retro electronic keyboards clutter up too many of these simple and soaring melodies. The sensational "Perdoa meu amor" from the 1940s might have sounded great with a harp in one channel, but instead two competing harp tracks goop up the song with too much of a good thing. MM herself is credited as a producer, and must share the blame. "Infinito particular", which MM released simultaneously with this album, is a marginally more musical choice, though it lacks any track where the musicians let loose and have fun -- a big contrast from her earlier CDs. Don't pay full price for either of these new releases. If you're new to her music, her album from 2000, "Memories, Chronicles and Declarations of Love", is a five-star alternative you won't regret.
(A. J. Sutter)

THE ROLLING STONES - BLACK AND BLUE (1976)

Músicos: Mick Jagger (voz, piano Fender), Keith Richards (guitarra), Ron Wood (guitarra), Bill Wyman (baixo) e Charlie Watts (bateria) + Billy Preston (piano, Arp string e voz), Harvey Mandel (guitarra), Wayne Perkins (violão) e Nick Hopkins (órgão).

Faixas:
Hot Stuff
Hand of fate
Cherry oh baby
Memory hotel
Hey negrita
Melody
Fool to cry
Crazy mama


Black and Blue, lançado em 1976, foi o primeiro álbum dos Stones depois da saída de Mick Taylor e a estréia de Ron Wood na banda.

Abaixo quatro textos recolhidos da Wikipedia. Um em francês, outro em inglês, o terceiro em alemão e o último em sueco.

Black and Blue est un album du groupe de rock anglais The Rolling Stones, sorti en 1976 et produit par les Glimmer Twins, surnom de Mick Jagger et Keith Richards. Cet album est le premier du groupe réalisé après le départ du guitariste Mick Taylor. Son remplaçant, Ron Wood, participe à l'album et devient membre officiel des Stones à la fin des enregistrements.
(Wikipedia)

Black And Blue is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1976. It is notable for being their first studio album following guitarist Mick Taylor's departure, while Ron Wood made his first appearance on a Rolling Stones album, becoming an official member of the band by the end of Black and Blue's sessions. Although the album would meet with commercial success, most contemporary critics still consider Black and Blue a part of The Rolling Stones' artistically-lean period, starting with 1973's Goats Head Soup.
(Wikipedia)

Black and Blue ist das dreizehnte in Großbritannien erschienene Studioalbum der Rolling Stones.
Das Album ist am 20. April 1976 in Europa bei der WEA und in den USA bei Atlantic Records erschienen.
Die Songs wurden 1975 größtenteils in den Musicland Studios in München aufgenommen.
Von Kritikern wird es als ein durchschnittliches Album der Rolling Stones angesehen, trotzdem belegte es in den USA vier Wochen lang den ersten Platz der Charts. Hauptsächlich sind auf diesem Album Blues-, Jazz-, und Reggae-Einflüsse zu hören.
Die Stones testeten im Rahmen der Aufnahmen zu diesem Album mehrere Gitarristen, um einen Nachfolger für Mick Taylor, der die Band 1974 verlassen hatte, zu finden. Darunter befanden sich Jeff Beck, Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins (spielte Solo in „Hand of Fate“) und Ron Wood. Sie entschieden sich letztlich für Ron Wood als neues Gruppenmitglied.
Auf der englischen Schwesterseite steht, dass das Rolling Stones Album seinen Namen "Black and Blue" wegen des Einflusses der "black music" bekommen hat.
(Wikipedia)

Black and Blue, ett album av The Rolling Stones släppt 1976. "Hot Stuff" och "Fool To Cry" blev hits. Musikkritiker var inte allt för positiva till albumet när det kom.
(Wikipedia)

NOVOS NOMES

Este é o CD de estréia da banda carioca Posto 1 "Pra quem sabe sonhar".

Em breve mais informações.

LED ZEPPELIN - II (1969)

Músicos: Robert Plant (voz e gaita), Jimmy Page (guitarras, steel guitar, violão e voz), John Paul Jones (baixo, órgão e voz) e John Bonham (bateria e voz).

Faixas:
Whole lotta love
What is and what should never be
The lemon song
Thank you
Heartbreaker
Living loving maid (she's just a woman)
Ramble on
Moby Dick
Bring it on home

Led Zeppelin II, also known by the unofficial nickname The Brown Bomber, is a rock and roll album, the second released by English band Led Zeppelin in 1969(see 1969 in music). Here they further developed ideas established on their debut album, creating a work which became even more widely acclaimed and arguably more influential.

The album was recorded during a hectic and much-traveled period of the band's career from January through August 1969, when they completed four European and three American concert tours. Each song was separately recorded, mixed and produced at various studios in the UK and the US. The finished tracks reflect the raw, evolving sound of the band and their innovations as live performers.
Led Zeppelin II largely writes the blueprint for 1970s hard rock. Blues-derived songs like "Whole Lotta Love", "Heartbreaker", "The Lemon Song" and "Bring It on Home" are now standards of the genre, where the guitar-based riff (rather than vocal chorus or verses) defines the song and provides the key hook. Such arrangements and emphases were at the time atypical in popular music. As such, the album is generally considered to be very influential on the development of rock music, being an early forerunner of heavy metal, and inspiring a host of other rock bands such as Deep Purple, Van Halen and Guns 'n' Roses.
Led Zeppelin II also experimented with other musical styles and approaches, as on the alternately soft-and-loud "What Is And What Should Never Be" and "Ramble On" (which featured Page's acoustic guitar), or the pop-influenced ballad "Thank You". With its mysterious atmospherics, "Ramble On" helped develop hard rock's association with fantasy themes, which had partly derived from the psychedelic rock of two to three years before, but also from lyricist Robert Plant's personal interest in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien. This direction would later culminate on Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album (and countless subsequent groups would later carry the influence to further extremes). Conversely, the instrumental "Moby Dick" features an extended drum solo by John Bonham, which would later be extended to a half-hour or more in live concert performances.
Jimmy Page's contribution to this album was significant, as his electric guitar solo on the song "Heartbreaker" was emulated by many younger rock guitarists, and exemplifies the group's intense musical attack. Page's innovative recording and drum miking effects on tracks such as "Ramble On" and "Whole Lotta Love" also demonstrated his considerable skill, resourcefulness and originality as a producer.
The "Brown Bomber" album sleeve design was from a poster by David Juniper. It was based on an old photograph of the Jasta Division of the German air force during World War I, with the faces of the four members of the band airbrushed on from a 1969 publicity photograph. (The German air force used Zeppelins as airships for bombing military and civilian targets during the war).
Commercially, Led Zeppelin II was the band's first album to hit #1 in the US knocking The Beatles' Abbey Road from the top spot. It also yielded Led Zeppelin's biggest hit, with the track "Whole Lotta Love". This song reached #4 on the Billboard Top 100 in January 1970, after Atlantic Records went against the group's wishes by releasing a shorter version on 45. The single's B-side, "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)", also hit the Billboard chart, peaking at #65 in April 1970. The commercial success of this album also brought with it — as with their debut album — accusations of plagiarism (e.g. Willie Dixon's claim to the lyrics for "Whole Lotta Love"1).
In 2000 Q magazine placed Led Zeppelin II at number 37 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. Also in 2003, Rolling Stone magazine declared the album the 75th greatest album of all time.
(Wikipedia)

STAN GETZ/JOÃO GILBERTO - GETZ/GILBERTO - 1964

Músicos: Stan Getz (sax-tenor), João Gilberto (violão e voz), Tom Jobim (piano), Sebastião Neto* (baixo), Milton Banana (bateria) e Astrud Gilberto (voz).

Faixas:
The girl from Ipanema
Doralice
Para Machucar Meu Coração
Desafinado
Corcovado
Só danço samba
O Grande Amor
Vivo Sonhando

Getz/Gilberto, is an album released by American Stan Getz and Brazilian João Gilberto, featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim, in 1964. Its release created a bossa nova craze in the United States , and subsequently internationally. It brought together saxophonist Stan Getz, who had already performed the genre on his LPJazz Samba, João Gilberto (one of the creators of the style), and Jobim, a celebrated Brazilian songwriter, who wrote most of the songs in the album. It became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all times, and turned singer Astrud Gilberto, who sang on the track of "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado", into an international sensation. An interesting tidbit about this recording is that producer Creed Taylor kept the recording in a drawer for a year before releasing it, for reasons known only to him.
It won the 1965 Grammy Awards for Best Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental Album - Individual or Group and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "The Girl from Ipanema" also won the award for Best Record of the Year.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 454 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
(Wikipedia)

Para saber mais sobre o álbum:
http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=disc&src=art&pid=10366

*Há a questão do crédito de quem gravou o baixo. Algumas fontes creditam Tommy Williams como sendo o baixista. Outras dão o crédito a Sebastião Neto, um dos grandes nomes que passaram pelo Beco das Garrafas, em Copacabana.