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Title:

Aquarellas du Bresil
(27 Horas de Estudio)

Cover: front  /  back
Tracks:
  1. Um Abraco No Codo
  2. A Lenda Do Abaete
  3. Viagem
  4. Double
  5. Violao
  6. Lotus
  7. Iemanja
  8. O Cego Aderaldo (Nordeste)
  9. Alo, Ernesto
  10. All The Things You Are
Group: Baden Powell Quartet
Musicians: Baden Powell (git, vcl)
Ernesto Ribeiro-Goncalves (b)
Helio Schiavo (dr)
Alfredo Bessa (perc)
and unknown strings
Label: Barclay - King record
Country: Japan
Media: LP / CD
LP number: SR 459
CD number: 04400165452 (Brazil)
Year of performance: 1968
Year of LP release: 1970 (Japan)
Year of CD release: 25 June 2003 (Brazil)
Studio or Live: Studio
Guitar Model: Author 3 by luthier Reinaldo DiGiorgio
Also published as: 27 Horas de Estudio (LP, 1968)
Acuarelas de Brasil (LP, 1970)
O Mestre do Violao Brasileiro (CD-Box, 2003)
Description: One of his finest sixties recordings.
Gatefoldcover with track notes.
Re-pressings with a mixed tracklist.
Style: Jazzy arrangements, solo pieces, two tracks with strings.
Comments:  

BrazilOnGuitar says: We think that 27 Horas de Estudio was recorded at the end of 1968 because BP played a very similar arrangement of Iemanja on Le Monde Musical 2. We don't know of any other record with this arrangement.

Lotus, swinging in the style of Django and Jacques Loussier, opens this ambitious record. It is one of the most beautiful compositions on 27 Horas and sounds like an hommage to these musicians, but is in fact dedicated to his fast car, a Lotus. The string arrangement of All the things you are has not the lightness of the 1967 version and rather resembles the version from 1959. Three solo pieces form the center of this record, the Spanish Violao, the Moorish O cego aderaldo and the Brazilian A lenda do Abaete, showing that the thirty years old Baden belonged to the master guitarists of that time.

With compositions like Um abraco no codo or Alo, Ernesto he would deal with on later recordings. In 1974 Alo, Ernesto would become Valsa No.1 and be played in studio and on stage. The reflective Viagem and the Double by Bach close the record.

27 Horas de Estudio was for a long time only available as an LP and (without the WWW) very hard to find outside of Brazil. The long awaited CD-reissue (2003) was carefully remastered and shows the original Elenco cover.

We thanks Robert G. (Germany) for his translation and Susumu san for his help to send the cover and infos.

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