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Musica P/ Acampamentos

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This is a double record featuring booltlegs and unplugged trax of the most influent band on brazilian rock and roll scenario. Some tracks includes pieces of John Lennon's Jealous Guy and Jagger's Gimme Shelter. Playing live is just what the leader Renato Russo, HIV deceased 1997, liked most. Songs concerning politics, broken-hearts and self-estime are in touch with the 80's in Brazil. Some trax are just awesome, like "O teatro dos vampiros", taken from MTV Unplugged Brazil. Concluding this briefing, Listening to "Musica para Acampamentos" is a ticket to Brazilian music in the 80's and early 90's. Try it.

This duble CD contains live recordings and specials recordings for radio an TV, from 1985 to 1992. It includes 5 track from MTV unplugged, 6 from a show in São Paulo and also a previously unreleased track: "Canção do Senhor da Guerra". There are also two american songs: Rolling Stone's "Gimme Shelter" and Neil Young's "On the Way Home", in a total of 20 tracks. It's surely the best album of this brazilian band and the greatest album I have ever listened...

I really don't know how known or appreciated is this band "Legião Urbana" in USA or England, or even in Europe. But Legião Urbana is the name of the BRock (Brazilian Rock). Rock in Brazil had not always followed american or european tendencies, especially because my country passed by an dictatorship between the 60's and the middle 80's. This kind of government didn't accept many of the conquests rock'n roll brought to music and other forms of expression. So, in the end of 70's, many young ones and teenagers from medium classes started to make rock music, in various styles, many of them as the Beatles and Rolling Stones in the beginning of their carreers, others used to follow the ultimate styles they could listen to. An important city where everything happened that time was Brasilia, the Brazil's capital. So many songs those boys sang were talking about political and social problems. This is the beggining form Legião Urbana. This CD, although, is not one of their first works. After some success, they came to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and settled in these cities for some time. They had a big success among young boys and adults too. They became the number ones on FM playlists and they became news in many papers from that decade. Música Para Acampamentos (that means music from camping) is not an acoustic album, it's not like songs played around the fire, like a camping. Música Para Acampamentos is a scrapbook, in 2 cds. Yes, it is a double album, with 20 songs. This is a reunion of songs they had made specially from TV and Radio, and other versions of sucesses or unknown recordings between the end of the 80's and the beggining of the 90's. This shows us some live performances from not always known songs of them like Fábrica (track 01, cd 01), Daniel Na Cova Dos Leões (track 02, cd 01). Known songs like Soldados (track 02, cd 02), Maurício, Há Tempos, Pais e Filhos and Faoreste Caboclo (track 06-09, cd 02). Songs for the radio like Baader-Meinhoff Blues and A Montanha Mágica (tracks 07 and 08, cd 2), Musica Urbana (a blues song, where Renato Russo, the vocalist, remembers Janis Joplin, cd 02, ) and for their mtv unplugged tv program, like On The Way Home (track 05, cd 02), O Teatro dos Vampiros, Eu Sei and Índios (tracks 04, 09 and 10, cd 01). Other songs are important too. Gimme Shelter (track 06, cd 01) is from Rolling Stones, because Legião Urbana is so connected with 70's and specially to punk-rock. You can hear it on songs like Fábrica, Baader-Meinhoff Blues, exempli gratia. This rock band started to talk about social problems in the beggining of their carreers, like in Faroeste Caboclo, what talks about social exclusion in the city they lived: Brasilia. A Montanha Mágica talks about drugs and Renato Russo's experience with heroin. Other songs are deeply psychologic and talks about man's questions about himself and the world around. This is an important collection about Legião Urbana's carrer until 1992. Renato Russo, the bandleader, died in 1996 of AIDS, and left Brazilian Rock orphaned for ever. But his opus is going to continue. Renato Russo and the Legião Urbana worked with music at all, not only with rock, but they never mixed rock with Brazilian traditional rythms like samba, for example. Enjoy it so much!!!!!!!