Eu Vim da Bahia [IMPORT]

Various Artists (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 2002)
• Original Release Date: August 13, 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.com Sales Rank: #260,426 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Eu Vim da Bahia - Gal Costa

2. Sim, Foi Você - Gal Costa

3. É Um Tempo de Guerra - Maria Bethânia

4. Gloria in Excelsis (Missa Agrária)/Carcará - Maria Bethânia

5. De Manhã - Maria Bethânia

6. Samba Em Paz - Caetano Veloso

7. Cavaleiro - Caetano Veloso

8. Roda - Gilberto Gil

9. Procissão - Gilberto Gil

10. Yemanjá - Gilberto Gil

11. São Benedito - Tom Zé

12. Maria Do Colégio da Bahia - Tom Zé

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

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.