release date: 1977
format: cd (2002 reissue)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,65]
producer: Ronaldo Bastos
label: EMI - nationality: Brazil
Tracklist: 1. "A Página do Relâmpago Elétrico" - 2. "Maria Solidária" (4 / 5) (live) - 3. "Choveu" - 4. "Chapéu de Sol" - 5. "Tanto" - 6. "Lumiar" - 7. "Bandolim" - 8. "Nascente" - 9. "Salve Rainha" - 10. "Belo Horizonte"
Música Popular Brasileira
I don't know much about Beto Guedes. I just love his music and I find it strange how completely unknown he is in the Northern hemisphere...
I stumbled on his music as I was looking for the origins of a beloved song by Milton Nascimento, or so I thought it was. The song is "Amor de Índio" which is found on A Barca dos Amantes (1986), a fabulous live album by Milton accompagnied by Wayne Shorter, and Nascimento is just an icon of singer / songwriter of MPB, latin vocal jazz, folk... and contemporary latin, pop folk... or: modern world music. I just love Milton's crispy soulful Brazilian vocal shape of sound... Then I found that this giant of a song was written by Beto Guedes and composed with Ronaldo Bastos, and I had my difficulties in finding any music at all with the man himself, except on youtube. Guedes took part in the formation with Fernando Brant of the Nascimento and Lô Borges-led music collective "Clube da Esquina" in which Guedes at times sang lead vocal and played guitar before starting an enduring career as a solo artist.
Tracklist: 1. "A Página do Relâmpago Elétrico" - 2. "Maria Solidária" (4 / 5) (live) - 3. "Choveu" - 4. "Chapéu de Sol" - 5. "Tanto" - 6. "Lumiar" - 7. "Bandolim" - 8. "Nascente" - 9. "Salve Rainha" - 10. "Belo Horizonte"
Música Popular Brasileira
I don't know much about Beto Guedes. I just love his music and I find it strange how completely unknown he is in the Northern hemisphere...
I stumbled on his music as I was looking for the origins of a beloved song by Milton Nascimento, or so I thought it was. The song is "Amor de Índio" which is found on A Barca dos Amantes (1986), a fabulous live album by Milton accompagnied by Wayne Shorter, and Nascimento is just an icon of singer / songwriter of MPB, latin vocal jazz, folk... and contemporary latin, pop folk... or: modern world music. I just love Milton's crispy soulful Brazilian vocal shape of sound... Then I found that this giant of a song was written by Beto Guedes and composed with Ronaldo Bastos, and I had my difficulties in finding any music at all with the man himself, except on youtube. Guedes took part in the formation with Fernando Brant of the Nascimento and Lô Borges-led music collective "Clube da Esquina" in which Guedes at times sang lead vocal and played guitar before starting an enduring career as a solo artist.
Beto has a totally different vocal sound. At first one might think it could be a woman's voice. That's not all of course, Beto has a wonderful lightness that makes it almost ethereal. Also, Beto's MPB seems more inspired by western folk rock standards making his output more in family with Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, in my opinion, however, these greats don't compare to Beto.
The album contains compositions, which individually point in various directions, several songs are MPB-styled Brazilian folk, but others are shaped as progressive folk, e.g. "Choveu", "Chapéau de Sol", "Tanto" and "Nascente" - others have stronger beat-structure, but the album's strength is that it doesn't sound too incoherent nor like replicating other artists - it's very much an original sound altogether, held together by Beto's vocal, and it's a naturally much recommended listen.
