Chico Buarque de Hollanda专辑介绍
by Alvaro Neder
The experience of writing, in 1965, the music for the play staging of João Cabral de Melo Neto 's Morte E Vida Severina (which had an extremely successful international career) was a changing experience for the then novice composer Chico Buarque. Discovering the complementary power of the marriage between lyrics and music, he, who is both a good lyricist and composer, started a new phase that can be appreciated in this CD reissue of his very first album, recorded after his success in the II FMPB , in 1966, with "A Banda." Therefore, the repetitiveness of the melodic line of "Pedro Pedreiro" is coherent with the office of mason, the subject of the song; the spontaneous happiness and ingenuity of "A Banda," compatible to the naïve participation of bystanders after a parade band; and so on. Musically, the predominance is of excellent samba renditions with strong bossa inflections and a firm grip by a brass section in an acoustic setting. The songs included represent some of Chico's all-time hits, such as "A Banda," "A Rita," "Madalena Foi Pro Mar," "Pedro Pedreiro," "Olê Olá," and several others.