Today, we have a sunny forró instrumental from the mighty Abdias. Abdias may have the most extensive catalog of any accordion player in the history of forró. Forró De Chico Gato was recorded at the tail end of his career at Columbia Records before he became a producer and one of the main members of the house band at CBS. The instrumentation will be familiar to folks who love CBS forró from the mid-1960s through the 1970s: The bass line is played by violão de sete cordas. There is a mellow, dark and boxy-sounding cavaquinho (I mean that in the best sense) and a zabumba. You can also hear a chattery wood block throughout. Getting all of these rhythm instruments to sound balanced and pleasant is not always easy, but the musicianship and recording quality is often stellar on Abdias recordings. He truly was one of the genuses of the genre.
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| Abdias - Forró De Chico Gato instrumental from Columbia 78rpm & Festa com 8 Baixos (1962) |
