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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(France)
LP number: FLDX 598 (1971)
MC number: Musidisc 20 097 (circa 1975-1976)
Year of performance: Studio ORTF, Paris, 9 December 1970
Year of movie online release: in November 2009 by INA
Guitar Model: Author 3 by luthier Reinaldo DiGiorgio
Also published as: Tristeza (LP, France, Musidisc, circa 1976)
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.
Last page update: 4 November 2011
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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