‘Do Amanhã Nada Sei’ album, produced in Nashville by Eric Silver, makes the guitarist a rare peacemaker of resentful hearts
The harmony that the devil carries in his heart, if he has one, is called Rio Sotto. He makes the viola sexier, more treacherous and a little more agile. “It’s the devil’s tuning,” he says Almir Sater, one of the greatest modern musicians in the viola field and – for having been in the first soap opera Pantanal, 30 years ago, and in the recent remake made by Globo – in the sounds of cramulhão. “You have to tune the first string in D, the second in itself, the third in G …”, he continues to teach, remembering the days when the guitarist lived in pact with the devil in TV title.
His music, 16 years after his last solo album, is centered on singing, the steel guitar and an instrumental base of strings, drums, piano and percussion produced by the American. Eric Argentothe same as Almir’s two albums with Renato Teixeirathe fabulous AR and + AR, and who worked on the group’s country sounds Dixie chicks and Shania Twain. The result of the unreleased songs that Almir made and sent to Eric’s production in Nashville, USA, is on the album I don’t know anything about tomorrow, an encounter with something that the guitarist has been looking for all his life: his own sound.
It is strange to hear him talk about the difficulties of finding Brazilian musicians who understand what he, a deeply rooted backwoodsman, would like to do. But here is the first epilogue of one of the knots made in the image of Almir Sater, guitarist, son of Tião Carreiro by essence. It would be better, with all the reorientation his music has taken since AR, to understand the sound of him today as folk, something less regionalized and more planetary.
“This is the sound I’ve always been looking for, it was hard to do in Brazil. Many times, when I came up with albums like Sete Sinais and Terra dos Sonhos, I just gave up,” he says. Now, Almir has created a system with Eric that he must not abandon. After receiving the songs from Brazil, the producer entrusted them to people like drummer Chad Cromwell (a living legend, who recorded with Mark Knopfler, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Peter Frampton and Neil Young), pianist John Jarvis (by Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Ringo Starr and Bob Seger, John Denver and Lionel Ritchie) and Brazilian percussionists Sidinho Moreira and son Ian Moreira . There is also a lot of brilliance in Aquidauana’s Marcelus Anderson accordion.
Do Amanhã Nada Sei, the song that baptizes and opens the album, is clearly inspired by Mark Knopfler’s Je Suis Desole, released on the 1996 Golden Heart album. Almir was about to re-record the song and asked for permission to do this, but I knew Knopfler never, or rarely, authorizes versions. He then he did another one or two rib song from Je Suis …, making it less Celtic and with a sweeter chorus. If we put them next to each other, Almir can win. “I went to France once and spent two months listening to this song. I liked the atmosphere and followed his line.”
BEAUTY The beauties of the album appear continuously in the ten songs of the disc, eight of which signed with Paulo Simões. Eu Sou Mais do Que Sou is a wonderful collaboration with Luis Carlos Sá, from the duo with Guarabyra; Portão Preto makes itself felt on the streets of the Midwest with its heart cleansed of agropolitical rancidity; Ave Chamada Tempo, in collaboration with Renato Teixeira, is brought to some corner of Eastern Europe by the Celtic flutes of the arrangement; Olhos de Cachoeira returns to the sertões with Anderson’s soft accordion; and Peabiru, with more northern climates, is epic and immense.
There are two moments that can be read as political hardships. Absolute Truth says “forgive me for the new times / with their virtual realms / the news of the moment / they don’t even seem real / many people don’t even think / after all it’s worth more …”. And Angu com Caroço, a kind of samba rasqueado, with a cavaquinho played by Almir himself, unleashes: “The thing is bad / the soup is thick / the people on the street / there is a great commotion / but I have the impression / that there is a lot of ground for people to run on / to let us know where the bottom of the well is, after all. “
It is not quite what is sung in the countryside as the genre has taken a position of support for the government. Although he is not aligned with political groups, Almir is a rare guitarist who talks about resistance. “That innocence of country music got a bit lost, mixed with pop and smeared in this game, I didn’t know how to measure out external influences. I confess that I have resistance too,” he says, without political considerations. Violinist and folk, pantaneiro and country, Almir sounds like one of the few voices able to mediate some reconciliation between the sounds of a pacified sertão with those who, due to political resentment, can no longer bear to hear what comes out of their lands . L
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