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Title:

Lotus

Cover: front  /  back
Tracks:
  1. Pai
  2. Tristeza
  3. Round About Midnight
  4. Nega Do Cabelo Duro
  5. Aos Pes Da Santa Cruz
  6. Lotus
Group: Baden Powell Quartet
Musicians: Baden Powell (git, vcl)
Ernesto Ribeiro-Goncalves (b)
Helio Schiavo (dr)
Alfredo Bessa (perc)
Label: Festival
Country: France
Media: LP
LP number: FLDX 598
CD number:  
Year of performance: 9 December 1970
Year of LP release: 1971
Year of CD release:  
Studio or Live: Studio ORTF, Paris
Guitar Model: Author 3 by luthier Reinaldo DiGiorgio
Also published as: Tristeza (LP, Musidisc (F) 30 CO 1414)
Description: The record is his first release on the Festival
label and today a sought-after collectors' item.
No Gatefoldcover.
Style: Afro-Brazilian and Jazz for a French TV-Show.
Comments:  

BrazilOnGuitar says: This record originated of a half-hour recording for a french TV-show on Dec. 9th 1970. Lotus is not as closed thematically as Canto on Guitar (maybe because it was not intended as a long play record), still it offers another insight into the newly found freedom of making music and improvising, that Baden Powell found end of 1970.

Canto on Guitar, Lotus and the threepart Baden Powell Quartet series can be seen as a complex development from Afro-Brazilian music to Jazz and combining both to a peculiar style. An excerpt of the Lotus session can be seen in the documentation Velho Amigo, where Baden Powell plays Round about Midnight.

Date of first TV-Release of the whole session: 28 December 1971
Tracks 3, 5, 6 released on CD: Le Coeur de Baden Powell

We thank Robert G. (Germany) for his translation.

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