[psych prog brazil] Som Imaginário - Ué (1971)

Описание: Album: Som Imaginário
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Rio de Janeiro's Som Imaginário (Translation: 'Imaginary Sound') achieved good success in Brazil and made three varied and musically excellent albums between 1970 and 1973. They originally got together as the backing band for MPB star Milton Nascimento, and a particular show he put on called "Milton Nascimento, ah, e o Som Imaginário" which is where they took their name from afterwards. Milton was a singer/song writer who is still making music now. They consisted of Wagner Tiso (keyboards), Zé Rodrix (organ/percussion/vocals, flute), Robertinho Silva (drums), Tavito (12-string guitar), Luís Alves (bass), Laudir de Oliveira (percussion), Toninho Horta (guitar) and Nivaldo Ornelas (saxophone). I have used a track called 'Ué' (trans:'Huh') from their second album, 1971's self-titled, not to be mistaken for their 1970 debut, which was confusingly also self-titled. I love the way it starts out in a joyous, celebratory manner which is juxtaposed by the grinding fuzzy riffage that it ends in, brilliant.

According to AllBrazilMusic they participated in a 1971 short film called 'Nova Estrela' (trans:'New Star') which also included Gal Costa, a famous Salvador pop star who's music crossed over into Tropicália, and on tracks like 'Cultura e Civilizacao', into psychedelia. Thanks to TDATS reader Thalita Santos, firstly for sending me some bands to check out, also for helping me out with some of the translations for this article, and for sending me a link to André José Adler; the director's blog that has a long account in Portuguese regarding Nova Estrala, and the early history of Som Imaginário. Here is an article from it, kindly translated by Thalita Santos, about his thinking behind the film: "One night I was watching a concert by Gal Costa at Theatre Opinião. She was accompanied by the Som Imaginário group, who worked a lot with Milton Nascimento, and was composed by awesome musicians: Wagner Tiso, who accompanied Milton Nascimento since the beginning of his career, drummer Robby Silva, bassist Luiz Alves, guitarist Frederyko (also vocalist), Tavito and his 12-string guitar, Naná Vasconcelos on the percussion, and Zé Rodrix on the organ and vocals.

After the concert I talked to Zé Rodrix, who I already knew since he was part of 'Momento Quatro', when he sang on the 'Fahrenheit 2000' tv show, hosted by Taiguara and Eliana Pitman, which I wrote some texts for, on TV Tupi . Moreover Zé was my confessed fan from the times I worked at 'Falção Negro' and he always enjoyed pronouncing my name in Hungarian.

Conversation goes, conversation comes! And then the short film I wanted hit me! A film with Som Imaginário!! In times when nobody even imagined that one day there would be video clips, it was a snap of an idea. There was a beautiful song by Wagner, with different climates, in a progression that went from the romantic to the mystic. A big trip. I traveled in it. I had a text from Fredera (Frederyko) that said it was 'time for the new star' and so on.

My idea was to start with images of the group accompanying Gal (she accepted to participate in a take, that was all I needed) and then explode in the progression of the song for free outdoor shots. In the beautiful places where I was going with Luiz Fernando and Luli. The Cinematography, of course, had to be Luiz’s. Everybody agreed with the idea, including Milton Nascimento. I listened to the song countless times, with the Fredera’s text, At one point it needed a beautiful woman, a magical figure to give it a 'Iemanjá’s mood', because there was going to be a lot of sea in the scenes. She would make the offer (which was neatly armed by my brother Jorge) would vanish into the sea itself. And it had to be a child who would be the proper expression of a new star. Easy, Tania Scher and her daughter Claudia who was 2 years old and had a magical sweetness.

And then the news! The Federal Censorship banned Fredera’s text. Subversive. Star must mean communist! My script had been thought up over the song and the text. What should I do? Well, let's go ahead anyway.

We had already filmed in black and white, 16 mm to be expanded and grainy, taken at Theatre Opinião(...) and we went to Filgueiras. Luli, who would later be acclaimed as a songwriter, was my direction assistant , taking care of the continuity of that visual trip.

Who had a girlfriend brought a girlfriend, who had a wife brougth a wife! A wonderful Astral!!! Lizzie Bravo, at the time married to Zé Rodrix, became pregnant with her daughter Marya in this trip. Tavito and Zé Rodrix began to have ideas to write 'Casa no Campo' in this trip. But the French woman appeared!.......read more at https://aftersabbath.blogspot.com/201...


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