Wednesday 18 August 2010

Baden Powell - Personalidade (1993)

01.Viagem
02.Rosas, Das
03.Apelo
04.Chao de Estrelas
05.Consolacao
06.Carinhoso
07.Garota de Ipanema
08.Euridice
09.Samba Triste
10.Lamento
11.E de Lei
12.Tempo Feliz
13.Lenda do Abaete, A
14.Deixa.

Even if Baden Powell had never recorded a single note, he'd be renowned as the composer (along with esteemed collaborator Vinicius De Moreas) of numerous bossa nova classics. Fortunately for fans of Brazilian music, Powell did indeed make a simultaneous career of committing his guitar instrumentals to tape. This compilation captures Powell's music in all its glory and deceptive simplicity.
Whether Powell is playing solo (the live "Euridice"), in a duet with flute ("Carinhoso"), or accompanied by a jazzy rhythm section ("Apelo"), it's his cascading guitar runs that dominate, with a symbiosis of melody, harmony, and rhythm that almost seems like the softer side of Ornette Coleman's "harmolodic" theories. More influenced by classical and flamenco traditions than his peer Joao Gilberto, Powell successfully combines bossa nova's lilting rhythm with a sweeping, South American romanticism throughout this definitive anthology.
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