Eu Vim Da Bahia [Import]

Maria Bethania | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B00006FSU2
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #913,074 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Eu Vim da Bahia

2. Sim, Foi Você

3. É Um Tempo de Guerra

4. Gloria in Excelsis (Missa Agrária)/Carcará

5. De Manhã

6. Samba Em Paz

7. Cavaleiro

8. Roda

9. Procissão

10. Yemanjá

11. São Benedito

12. Maria Do Colégio da Bahia

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars The rarest Brazilian tropicalia recordings, November 9, 2002

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This review is from: Eu Vim Da Bahia (Audio CD)

Each of the artists in the "group from Bahia" that Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil formed made their first recordings for the Brazilian wing of RCA (and each subsequently moved on to record for Philips). This CD collection, long overdue, gathers many of the early singles by Veloso, Gil, Gal Costa (then called Maria Gracia), Tom Ze and Veloso's sister, Maria Bethania. Of the group, Bethania and Gil were clearly the most confident -- he had several years of performing experience under his belt by the time of his 1965 recordings of "Roda" and "Procissao," and she was a rising star in the Brazilian theatre. Even so, Bethania's husky vocals, though powerful and distinctive, were slightly overwhelmed by the clattersome arrangements, particularly on her hit, "Cacara," and most of these tracks -- Gil's being the exception -- suffer from relatively poor engineering and musical accompaniment that was a hangover from the early '60s bossa-jazz scene. This 12-song collection is lamentably short, only covering their recordings from 1965, but it's an invaluable (and quite charming) glimpse at the earliest work from one of Brazil's most influential groups of musicians. If you get the chance, snap it up.