In 2022, How about a samba? made a hedonistic invitation in the middle of the journey of horrors. Chico Buarque proposed a samba to counter the wave of fascism and pandemic, or pure “dementia”, and made us reflect on his renewing trajectory in this musical genre. Once again, Chico condensed the history of samba and the turning point in history, which he predicted amidst terrors and pleasures, as if challenging the country to evolve together with his melodic line.
In the images of the collective bath in coarse salt, Buarque’s poetic games absorbed the language of the streets, with ingenious rhymes, and placed blackness and popular culture as obstacles to “brute force”.
What do we have with? DVD and the CD dual and digital How about a Samba? (Live)registered by Thin biscuit to the I live Rio In 3 and 4 February 2023 is the answer of Chico Buarque at this crossroads of “hell and wonders”using his songbook of universal flight, a broad window on the world.
In the script of 31 tracks, the composer combines pieces without the wrinkles of time and with new meanings when mirrored one in the other, accentuating the design of his art prone to innumerable staging games. All the old songs get unprecedented expression in their dynamic reinterpretation. To carry the story forward, Chico has songs with a social and individual, political and romantic dimension, within a transformative poetics of Brazilian lyrics. This mastery was confirmed the other day with Your song, your lundu with Cristovão Bastosan alliance between ancestral form and modern language.
The show How about a Samba? reflects its historical time in a timeless poetics and reaffirms the impulse to Chico Buarque in redeeming the humiliated and the beauties of a threatened civilization. There is no disagreement. Tensions arise with All togetherhis version of the game for children The Mummers (Sergio Bardotti and Luis Bacalov), Passaredo (with Francis Hime), Sinha (with Edu Lobo), Settlement, Blues failure (another with Edu), My son, the caravans, God pay you AND How about a samba?
In these songs, placed at specific points, we overlook environmental fear, the founding cruelty of Brazil, the abuse of the black population, the resentment of the wounded and the tragic motherhood of the suburbs. But the disconcerting reaction emerges. And the breeze Good time.
On tour, when you share the stage with Monica SalmasoChico strengthened the São Paulo singer’s dialogue with her work, manifested in albums such as Voadeira (1999) e Gala evenings, samba on the street (2007), the latter entirely dedicated to the Buarquean repertoire, with a model re-recording of Beatrice.
A year earlier, on the album From Rio (2006), Chico had invited Salmaso to participate in the track Pleaseone of its partnerships with Tom Jobim. Since 1975, the year of the album and the show with Mary Bethanythe composer did not share a project with an artist.
In presence of Salmaso stimulated the theatrical expressions of Chico, looser in duets and solos, and built a bridge between the composer’s Rio soul and the musicality of the natives of São Paulo. The show celebrates, on many levels, female singing, but also pays homage Gal Costa (1945-2022), evoked in Very sorryAND Miúcha (1937-2018), with little sisterthe singer’s imaginary dive into his childhood with his sister, as well as being his accomplice in his first studies on the bossa nova guitar.
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