Caetano dark blue, white Gil. It was so at the Coliseum in Lisbon in 1994 was well again now, on the night of July 31 in the Park of Poets, a Municipal Stadium in Oeiras long exhausted for closing the EDP Cool Jazz in 2015.
And by a strange coincidence, they were also 26 songs heard now on stage (the 1994 show, only five were now taken over: Sampa , I came from Bahia , All Bahia Girl , Esoteric , Gandhi Children and Since the samba is samba ). But otherwise, this joint revisiting 50 years of both career (a century in total) had nothing repetitive or revivalist, was once a vibrant affirmation of the vitality and genius of the two, boosted in time. Caetano’s voice, in excellent shape, it sounds magnificent (and this greatly contributed the clear and absolutely impeccable sound in the stadium) and Gil while maintaining its peculiar tone for decades, shows heat, nerve and seduction. The audience behaved high, and made the evening a musical communion space like few others.
Being an introspective look at the script knew trace it shrewdly. Since then, with the idea, always present, back with Back in Bahia . Return to Brazil from exile; return to a Portugal passed by on his way to exile. “Here in London, occasionally felt far from here,” the song says. And they say the voices in unison, at a distance of almost five decades. After bum Heart (Caetano writing on the path of João Gilberto) and two themes-manifesto, both of 1968, Tropicalia , Caetano (who now sang overwhelmingly) and Marginalia II , Gil (the chorus was repeated by the audience). Is luxury only by Ary Barroso sounded with an incredible balance, the strings of guitars in constant rhythmic pulse, and noted there João Gilberto, who recorded it. As It’s morning , written by Caetano to his sister, Bethany recalled without the name. Caetano and Gil sang it beautifully, opening the “time” to Caetano: Sampa , Earth , Nine out of ten and Hate ( Cê ) one of the latest themes heard in the night.
Tonada luna llena (the Venezuelan Simón Diaz, who Caetano recorded in Fina Estampa ) gave the floor to Gil, with I came from Bahia , then Superman, the song first voice Caetano (which it had recorded an excellent version) and then in Gil, in what was one of the most fabulous sets times of the night. Gil wrote this theme, beautiful, in 1979, after hearing Caetano Veloso tell him enthusiastically, the film Superman , which just seen, and where this – as later wrote Gil – changed . “as a god the course of history / for woman”
New foray into other people’s words: Caetano with material Come (he recorded the disc tribute to Fellini and Giulietta Masina and is the repertoire of Domenico Modugno) and then with Gil Tres palabras , the Cuban Osvaldo Farrés. In between, they sang together Esoteric (grateful memory of the Barbarians Sweets) and thus remained in dard , one of the best designed Gil themes. He had, then your big moment of the evening: I’m not afraid of death first sung in exceptionally grave tone and then his voice released to higher tones. Creative, vibrant, absolutely exceptional.
Expresso 2222 has arrived in merry way the party. Which remained at high, with All Bahia Girl (with the audience singing and beating rhythmic clapping), St John, Xango, boy (also of Candy times Barbarians) and Our people . Then the rites and belief: Walking with Faith and Gandhi Children , both Gil, but played in duo
Strong applause, false. order and return. As Bahian sounds were back in the air, Caetano welcomed (there close) “… Santo Amaro de Oeiras,” he was born in another Santo Amaro, the Bahia purification. This served him, him and Gil to remember the magnificent duo in Since the samba is samba , Tropicália 2 , that the audience replied verbatim, a whisper that was causing global chorus. After Sunday in the Park and the closing The light Tieta , referring to the enthusiastic Bahian rhythmic and Jorge Amado.
A couple, wrote in 1994, after the concert the Colosseum, “unbeatable well in composing gear and sing better and seduce.” And that is certainly unbeatable in the art of aging well.
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