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Cartola
Albums By The Legendary
Samba Songwriter
And By Others Interpreting His Compositions
Cartola (Serie Raizes Do Samba)
20 Cartola classics
So Cartola
with Elton Medeiros, Nelson Sargento,
and Galo Preto interpreting Cartola
Elton Medeiros and Nelson Sargento, with the
outstanding choro group Galo Preto, have made a fantastic tribute to Cartola . .
Cartola's melodies are strong and beautiful, but what stands out on this CD is
the immaculate sense of rhythm and time. Whether it's Elton riding the beat or
the cavaquinho playing fives when everyone else is playing fours, there's so
much happening here that it's really ear candy . . proof that old sambistas just
get better and better . . Galo Preto has a ocuple of other great choro albums,
and Elton has a bunch of other CDs, all fine, beautiful, wonderful...
--an Amazon reviewer
Interpreta Cartola
(2002)
I was unsure how Ney might follow up his tremendous homage to
the Carmen Miranda era (Batuque) but this re-imagining of Cartola's samba
songbook exceeds expectations. Restrained, soulful, and drawn in arrangements of
clean, spare lines, this portrait of the legendary Mangueira co-founder is
spectacular. No, it doesn't sound like Cartola. It sounds like Cartola's work
has been reborn in the 21st century, though. And if you're already a fan of Ney,
you won't be disappointed by a recording so crisply displaying his still-great
voice, nor by the classic sambas that highlight it. As in Batuque, the band is
an equal co-star with assured mastery of the material and solo turns that make
you hope for a world tour! --an Amazon reviewer
Ney Matogrosso Interpreta Cartola Ao Vivo
(2004)
Beth Carvalho Canta Cartola
Beth Carvalho interprets samba
classics by the legendary Cartola
(2003)
For fans of Brazillian music or those who are
drawn to romantic acoustic guitar this album answers all your longings. Cartola
was a master of the Brazillian lament and an underspoken innovator for
Brazillian popular music in general. In 'Documento Inedito' we find the artist
nostalgically ruminating over his life through interviews in which the
interviewer thankfully lets us hear only the soft, weathered voice of Cartola
and one almost perceives the sound of autumn crinkling into windblown leaves.
The past is blended with the present as Cartola plays, with the old, new
compositions that sound as fresh and spontaneous and true as the ones which sold
albums for the majority of Brazil's superstars. This disc is an heirloom
considering the near impossibility of finding recordings of the composer singing
his own music and in fact during one of the interviews he notes plaintively that
this album will be the first in his life(and last) solely devoted to versions
done by him. --an Amazon reviewer
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