When I first heard Tropicalia, it sounded like some of the music was beamed in from another reality. The debt to international US and European 60s pop was clear, but the Brazilian elements were unfamiliar. As I learned about forró, samba and the multiple styles connected to those larger musical branches, the rhythmic key became clear. I was also interested to learn that there was also a moment in the 1950s with experimental cutting and pasting of those genres, predating Tropicalia, using similar orchestration. It is possible that Rogério Duprat and the Tropicalia composers were aware of people like Gilvan Chaves. Pastoril do "velho" Cebola is quite an odd tune, changing mid-stream with rhythm and tempo. This became a mainstay of Tom Zé's records just over a decade later.
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Friday, May 10, 2019
Gilvan Chaves - Pastoril do "velho" Cebola from O Sélo Da Qualidade - Mocambo (1956)
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Gilvan Chaves – Vovó Sabina from Encantos do Nordeste - Columbia 1958
Gilvan Chaves – Vovó Sabina from Encantos do Nordeste - Columbia 1958
In 1958, when forró wasn't the strict genre it became later, Gilvan Chaves created his classic LP: Encantos do Nordeste. The album shares similarities to Vinicius Des Moraes / Baden Powell's Os Afro Sambas and Zélia Barbosa's Sertão e Favelas, but Encantos do Nordeste is far less known and celebrated. The album has a hypnotizing quality. Songs flow like a single piece, with Chaves breaking into story between songs with minimal accompaniment. Incantations... Enchantments.... Charms of the Northeast... indeed.
Forró is typically upbeat, catchy dance music from the northeast of Brazil. Like any popular genre, forró has sub-genres and branches that defy pure categorization. Elomar, Xangai, Jackson do Pandeiro, Carmélia Alves and Borrachinha are a few of the artists that followed, created and broke the rules, inventing haunted northeastern folk mixed with forró.
In 1958, when forró wasn't the strict genre it became later, Gilvan Chaves created his classic LP: Encantos do Nordeste. The album shares similarities to Vinicius Des Moraes / Baden Powell's Os Afro Sambas and Zélia Barbosa's Sertão e Favelas, but Encantos do Nordeste is far less known and celebrated. The album has a hypnotizing quality. Songs flow like a single piece, with Chaves breaking into story between songs with minimal accompaniment. Incantations... Enchantments.... Charms of the Northeast... indeed.
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| Gilvan Chaves shows off his masterpiece (thank you Felipe Batista for the photo) |
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