home



Search
Title:

Canto on Guitar

Cover: front  /  back
Tracks:
  1. Samba Em Preludio
  2. Tres Temas Da Fe Afro-Brasileira:
    - Pai (Um Canto De Preto Velho)
    - Filho (Batuque Para Um Orixa)
    - Espirito Santo (Oxala)

  3. Marcha Escocesa
  4. Tributo A Um Amigo
  5. Quaquaraquaqua (Vou Deitar E Rolar)
  6. Cegos Do Nordeste
Group: Baden Powell Quartet
Musicians: Baden Powell (git, vcl)
Ernesto Ribeiro-Goncalves (b)
Helio Schiavo (dr)
Alfredo Bessa (perc)
Label: MPS
Country: Germany
Media: LP / CD
LP number: 15.300 ST
CD number: 821 866-2 (Germany)
POCJ-2711 (Japan)
Year of performance: 2 - 3 December 1970
Year of LP release: 1971
Year of CD release: 30 May 1991 (Germany)
7 April 1999 (Japan)
Studio or Live: MPS Studio Villingen (Germany)
Guitar Model: Author 3 by luthier Reinaldo DiGiorgio
Also published as: Baden Powell On Guitar (CD-Box, 2006)
Description: Words by Joachim E. Berendt in German and English.
Gatefoldcover with pictures from the "Canto on Guitar"
session.
Style: Afro-Brazilian themes.
Comments:  

BrazilOnGuitar says: Canto on Guitar was the third record for MPS.
The Baden Powell Quartet recorded it immediately after their first tour in Germany. Most compositions were developed directly from improvisations. Hardly any other of Baden Powell's records deals so closed thematically with the religions of Brazil. The suite "Tres Temas Da Fe Afro-Brasileira" with is trance-like rhythms is the spiritual centre of the record.

1970 Baden said about the suite: "I think it became the most beautiful thing I ever have done. Espirito Santo is the most lovely bit definitely." For Baden the record meant the breakthrough in a freer form of making music, which can be heard in his next records: "Lotus" and the threepart "Baden Powell Quartet" series. We thank Robert G. (Germany) for his translation.

back to original recordings  /  back to index