This Sunday is different from all others. Under normal conditions, Sunday delivers a low traffic at Loronix, but not the second Sunday of February, lasting 3 hours to the end, this Sunday is already the busiest one in Loronix history. That's why I decided to show you a special album at the beginning, sent by my good friend cvllos as of my birthday gift. I don't need to say more, just look at this cover to understand that we are facing a historical album. Let's see.
This is Radames Gnattali e Laurindo de Almeida - Suite Popular Brasileira para Violao e Piano (1956), for the underrated Continental label. By the way, I need to say that Continental, a great label that had its peak in the 78rpm years and also in the early 70’s, recorded most of the albums released in the last five days at Loronix, Returning to this nice Continental 10-inch, Radames Gnattali delivers piano playing and all six compositions, while Laurindo Almeida plays violao eletrico "electric acoustic guitar", which is a really unusual combination. I always thought the first Brazilian album featuring violao and piano was Samambaia by Cesar Camargo Mariano and Helio Delmiro, and then comes cvllos with this one, recorded 24 years before Samambaia in the same concept. Thanks cvllos. Tracks include:
Personnel
Radames Gnattali
(piano)
Laurindo Almeida
(violao eletrico)
Track List
01 - Invocação a Xangô (Radamés Gnattali)02 - Toada (Radamés Gnattali)03 - Choro (Radamés Gnattali)04 - Samba Canção (Radamés Gnattali)05 - Baião (Radamés Gnattali)06 - Marcha (Radamés Gnattali)
This Sunday is different from all others. Under normal conditions, Sunday delivers a low traffic at Loronix, but not the second Sunday of February, lasting 3 hours to the end, this Sunday is already the busiest one in Loronix history. That's why I decided to show you a special album at the beginning, sent by my good friend cvllos as of my birthday gift. I don't need to say more, just look at this cover to understand that we are facing a historical album. Let's see.
This is Radames Gnattali e Laurindo de Almeida - Suite Popular Brasileira para Violao e Piano (1956), for the underrated Continental label. By the way, I need to say that Continental, a great label that had its peak in the 78rpm years and also in the early 70’s, recorded most of the albums released in the last five days at Loronix, Returning to this nice Continental 10-inch, Radames Gnattali delivers piano playing and all six compositions, while Laurindo Almeida plays violao eletrico "electric acoustic guitar", which is a really unusual combination. I always thought the first Brazilian album featuring violao and piano was Samambaia by Cesar Camargo Mariano and Helio Delmiro, and then comes cvllos with this one, recorded 24 years before Samambaia in the same concept. Thanks cvllos. Tracks include:
Personnel
Radames Gnattali
(piano)
Laurindo Almeida
(violao eletrico)
Track List
01 - Invocação a Xangô (Radamés Gnattali)02 - Toada (Radamés Gnattali)03 - Choro (Radamés Gnattali)04 - Samba Canção (Radamés Gnattali)05 - Baião (Radamés Gnattali)06 - Marcha (Radamés Gnattali)