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Title: Images on Guitar / Baden + Janine
or as E de lei (Brazil Edition)

Cover: LP Germany - front / back / gatefold / label
LP Brazil- front / back / label
LP Japan - front / gatefold / back / label
Tape USA - front
MC Germany - front
CD Japan - front / back / inside / disc / matrix
CD Germany - front / back / disc / matrix / view

Watch the new release, same label, of Tristeza on Guitar

Tracks:

Ate Eu

Petite Valse

Violao Vagabundo

Conversa Comigo Mesmo

Blues A Volonte

Sentimentos, Se Voce
Pergunta Nunca Vai Saber

E De Lei

Canto

Musicians: Baden Powell (git, vcl)
Janine de Waleyne (vcl)
Ernesto Ribeiro-Goncalves (b)
Joaquim Paes Henriques (dr)
Alfredo Bessa (perc)

Guitar Model: Author 3 by luthier Reinaldo DiGiorgio

Year of performance: From Monday to Tuesday, 25-26 October 1971
MPS-Studio Villingen, Germany

Producer & Crew: Producer: Joachim E. Berendt
Recording Director: Willi Fruth
Recording Engineer: Rolf Donner
Linernotes: Joachim E. Berendt (German / English)
Fotos inside: MPS-Frey
Reverse Side: K.H. Niemeyer
Cover Design: Wolfgang Baumann

Total Time 41:50 min. (1998 Japan Release)
41:29 min. (2003 Brazil Release)
41:14 min. (2008 German Release)
41:42 min. (2016 German Release)

Label: MPS (Germany) and Canyon-Records (Japan)

LP number: 15.328 (MPS)
6349036 (Philips)
Y-1010-N (Canyon)
0210990MSW (MPS Edel)

Tape number: BASF MC 49057 (USA, BASF, 1972)

MC number: 2139057-3 (MPS Germany, 1973)

CD number: POCJ 2556 (Japan, 1998)
04400165842 (Brazil, as E de Lei, 2003)
0211343MSW (Germany, 2016)

UPC / EAN number: 4988005212146 (1998, Japan)
044001658426 (2003, Brazil)
0602498243763 (2008, Box, Germany)
4029759113430 (2016, Germany)

Release Year: LP: March, 1972, Germany
LP: June 1972, Japan
LP: 1972, Brazil as E de lei , Newspaper Reports here
LP: 13 May 2016, Germany

Tape: 1972, USA
MC: 1973, Germany

CD: 18 March 1998, Japan
CD: 25 June 2003, Brazil (as E de Lei))
CD: 6 May 2008, 2-CD Set, Gemany
CD: 22 July, 2016, Germany
as DSD / 96 kHz / 192KHz Remaster

Also published as: E de lei (LP, 1972)
O Mestre do Violao Brasileiro (as E De Lei)
Baden Powell On Guitar (CD-Box, Germany, 2008)

Description: The MPS first pressing (15.328) is seldom found. The paper weight of the
gatefold cover varies with each year and pressing. The liner notes (in
English and German) were written by J.E. Berendt and contained also studio
and rare concert photos.

Last page update: February 2021
Comments:

BrazilOnGuitar says: After his japanese studio recording in April 1971, this record was the third and last recording for MPS in cooperation with the Japanese Canyon label in October 1971. BP found a new quartet with Ernesto Ribeiro-Goncalves, Alfredo Bessa and the drummer Joaquim Paes Henriques, the last one would accompany him in studio and on stage until 1974. However, after this recording the quartet split up. The following recordings three weeks later were recorded without them. In 1990 Baden, Ernesto and Alfredo would work again together on the re-recording of the "Afro Sambas".

BP's Images on Guitar is conceptionally one of the best records of the seventies. Hardly any other record sounds as thematically closed as Images on Guitar or Canto on Guitar. While the last Quartet recordings had their focus on Afro-Brazilian music he was now playing his own compositions. Elaborate themes used elements from Jazz, Baroque, Blues and Funk. These combinations would remain unrepeated. Many of these themes were only recorded once.

Ate Eu can be seen as an continuation of the three last Quartet recordings of December, 1970. However Petite Valse seems to be the true introduction to this record. This title would be the first in many of his concerts.
While Baden Powell (1971) was an hommage to Garoto and Pixinguinha this record can be seen as an hommage to Janine de Waleyne. The complete title can only be found on the MPS cover: Images on Guitar / Baden + Janine.

In four duets BP gives his favourite singer the necessary space for her impressive voice. The dynamics of these compositions increase and culminate in Blues a volonte. It is a powerful and cheerful improvisation and the best example of the inspirational work of everyone involved in the recording. Conversa Comigo Mesmo (dialogue with myself) seems like a well-done extension of his 1966 recording Invencao Em 7 ½.
E de Lei, in an instrumental and accurate arrangement, is followed by the inspiring and evocative Canto.

Canto: the guitar takes up the theme of the vocals. In an short rhythmic part this seems reversed. The guitar gives the impulse. The last note of the vocal remains unaccompanied and is followed by an altered D-minor chord (Dm9/#11). This chord shows great tension. The powerful quint on the bass strings is eased by guide tones as chord extensions (Bb and E) on the higher strings Finally the motiv of descending perfect fifths is repeated, played only by the guitar. The piece ends with a straight quint sound (D,A,d). This seems like a confirmation or easing. Maybe Canto tries to show the importance of the voice as the original instrument, the instrumental player trying to imitate the voice.

The cover art of the German release is one of the most beautiful of BP's covers. The Japanese CD release lacks a reprint of the gatefold cover. The record was released as E De Lei in Brazil in 1972, with a release on CD in 2003. The Japanese CD release is from 1998 (POCJ 2556), in 1997 the record (except for one track) was released on the CD: Jazz Meets Brasil (MPS 533 133-2). A re-edition with the original cover art remains to be released.

New addition on 2 October 2016:
In June 2016 MPS published the album on CD as a 192KHz remaster, as before on the 2008 sampler "Baden Powell on Guitar". This time though as a digi-sleeve with a 14 page booklet, liner notes in German and English and a reproduction of the original master tape as a CD cover. Together an appealing collector's item and a first as an individual German CD release. Many thanks to MPS Records.

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

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