Marcos Valle [Import, Original recording remastered]

Marcos Valle | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 29, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
• ASIN: B00005M6IV
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,417 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #56 in Music > World Music > Latin Music > Brazilian > Bossa Nova
  • #90 in Music > Jazz > Brazilian Jazz

Track Listings

1. Quarentão Simpático

2. Êle e Ela

3. Dez Leis (Is That Law)

4. Pigmalião

5. Que Eu Canse e Descanse

6. Esperando o Messias [Com Golden Boys]

7. Freio Aerodinâmico

8. Os Grilos

9. Suite Imaginária: Cançao/Corrente/Toada/Dança

10. Os Grilos [1967 Single Version]

Editorial Reviews

Japanese exclusive digitally remastered reissue for the Renaissance man of Brazilian pop. Ten tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Oddball Brilliance, October 9, 2001

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Greg C. (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marcos Valle (Audio CD)

Although Marcos Valle had been gradually breaking away from the strictures of bossa nova over his previous two albums, this 1970 album presented something of a break with most of what he'd done up to that point. For starters, both the songs and his hair were getting longer, and the dynamic of this unique record resides in the yin-yang between electrified rock-influenced tracks featuring Milton Nascimento's backing band Som Imaginário, and orchestrally-backed examples of Valle's expertise in 6/8 waltz-time rhythms. This latter talent demonstrates that Valle could have easily been a Hollywood composer in the 40s had he been born three decades earlier. And all this is before you get to "Freio Aerodinamico" (pure Stereolab!), "Os Grilos" (a dancefloor hit several decades later) and "Suite Imaginária" (a page taken from David Axelrod's work with the Electric Prunes--think "Release Of An Oath"). Both brilliant and a bit bizarre, and a traditionally overlooked chapter in Brazilian pop history. In other words, a must-have!