Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77 - Primal Roots (1972)
BAND/ARTIST: Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77
- Title: Primal Roots
- Year Of Release: 1972
- Label: A&M Records
- Genre: Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Latin Jazz
- Quality: 24-bit/96kHz FLAC Vinyl
- Total Time: 00:34:06
- Total Size: 649 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
This time, Sergio Mendes freed himself from any commercial expectations, plunged deep into Brazil, and came up with a boldly experimental yet beautifully impressionistic album of Brazilian folk and popular music. Many of the tracks here are ritualistic in structure, with call-and-response vocals, sprinkled with native Brazilian percussion instruments like the agogo, cuica, atabaques and the weird single-string berimbau, creating mysterious moods and grooves. Oscar Castro-Neves -- whose guitar shines throughout the album -- and bassist Sebastiao Neto wrote one gorgeous tune, "After Sunrise," and Mendes adapts folk songs as well as Baden Powell's "Iemanja" and Dori Caymmi's now-well-known "Promessa de Pescador" to the blend of Brasil '77 female vocals and Brazilian tropical sounds. The record is dominated by a single, gigantic 19-minute piece, "The Circle Game," a rambling, multi-sectioned tour de force with extended Brazilian grooves, properly exotic jazz flute solos from Tom Scott, and dissonant improvisations touching on the jazz avant-garde. Understandably, Primal Roots remained dear to Mendes' heart even though it was not a sales blockbuster, and it gives credence to the not-often-floated idea of Mendes as innovator, whose uncompromising explorations of world music sounds place this record years ahead of its time.
Tracklist:
02. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - After Sunrise (03:32)
03. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - Canto De Ubirantan (02:15)
04. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - Iemanja (03:04)
05. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - Pomba Gira (02:32)
01. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - Promise of a Fisherman (Promessa De Pescador) (03:38)
07. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - Promise of a Fisherman (Promessa De Pescador) (00:42)
06. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - The Circle Game (Jogo De Roda) (18:20)
Tracklist:
02. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - After Sunrise (03:32)
03. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - Canto De Ubirantan (02:15)
04. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - Iemanja (03:04)
05. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - Pomba Gira (02:32)
01. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - Promise of a Fisherman (Promessa De Pescador) (03:38)
07. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - Promise of a Fisherman (Promessa De Pescador) (00:42)
06. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - The Circle Game (Jogo De Roda) (18:20)
Jazz | Funk | World | Latin | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
As a ISRA.CLOUD's PREMIUM member you will have the following benefits:
- Unlimited high speed downloads
- Download directly without waiting time
- Unlimited parallel downloads
- Support for download accelerators
- No advertising
- Resume broken downloads