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| The Essential Marcos Valle Volume 1 - Marcos Valle (Compilation) - 1968-1972 |
Label: Mr Bongo MRBCD003 (UK)
Format: CD
My rating: 8/10
Entered: 06/17/2001
Last updated: 05/03/2003
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Search on GEMM |  | To me, this first volume collecting Marcos's work isn't quite as wonderful as the second, but it is still superb.
It opens with 'Mentira', a simple, bouncy and super funky, bluesey pop tune. We then hear yet another version of 'Os Grilos', this one with a great echo effect on the voice, a breezy and some interesting ambient sounds in the background. Next up is 'Malena', which at the beginning sounds strangely like late 80s pop to me. It's a nice, gentle, catchy pop song. 'Pista 02' is a jazzy, bouncy pop song with a cool early 70s feel to it. 2 versions of 'Nao Tem Nada Nao', written with Joao Donato, continue this slightly unnerving jazzy sound. The second version is an instrumental with some pleasing electronic effects. Next is a true masterpiece, 'Freio Aerodinamico', a moody pop masterpiece in which Marcos and his wife Anamaria perform scat vocals over a slowly building jazzy pop backing, with prominent piano, strings and brass. A really superb song, also covered very effectively by Brazilian vocal group 'Os tres morais'. Several more Brazilian pop classics follow - 'Proton Electron Neutron' (which was also recorded by Walter Wanderley on his A&M 'Moondreams' album), Viagem and Terra de Ninguem (which Marcos once famously sung live with Elis Regina). 'Ele e Ela' is a charming pop song with many charmingly executed Marcos trademarks - duetting wordless vocals, warm strings, gentle horns... The compilation ends with a jazzier number, 'Vem', and the atmospheric, soundtrack-like 'Democustico'. |
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