{"id":11613,"date":"2024-02-08T11:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T11:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11613"},"modified":"2024-02-08T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:38:27","slug":"music-arthur-verocai-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11613","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Arthur Verocai, 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sweet creaming Jesu! I\u2019ve put off buying this for years. Partly on account of usually being broke, admittedly. But also partly because I\u2019ve sometimes bought Brazilian music and been a little bit disappointed with it. I was a little worried this might be one of those instances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could\u2019ve listened to this stuff online. And indeed, I did occasionally listen to snippets, but I never really gave it my full attention. Well, despite the perennial lack of Luca, I ordered it. Along with Gal Costa is India, album, of similar vintage the latter being released in 1973).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve just listened to the first full play through, in my car, driving to work. It\u2019s a grey and rainy day in The Fens. And boy, oh boy, did this bring some much-needed Brazilian sunshine into the interior of my car, and the innards of my spirit\/s oul! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a delightfully, heady and eclectic mix of all the stuff I love. Brazilian samba, with jazy harmonies and melodies, sometimes vocal, sometimes instrumental (beautiful vocal harmonies), but with horns, and strings, and even synths\u2026 and this is 1972! It\u2019s MPB, it\u2019s folk, funk, rock, pop, and easy-listening, it\u2019s progressive! It\u2019s just bloody brilliant, is what it is (he says, getting unabashedly Clarkson, in his enthusiasm).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m just disappointed in myself, for my lack of faith. I should\u2019ve bought this years ago. I\u2019ve known about it for eons. And it\u2019s always appealed. He just looks such a funky dude. And the cover is brilliant. What a beautiful shot of a beautiful building, and a beautiful man. Nice tight face. The whole vibe is just totally up my Boulevard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To have the music hit the spot so sweetly. Such a heart piercing bull\u2019s-eye, it\u2019s just gravy. Can\u2019t say how happy it makes me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s kind of funny, when synchronicity strikes. I just watch the Beastie Boys story, on Apple TV. That was superb. In it, add rock relates how MCA, when accused of hypocrisy by an interviewer, replied, \u2018I\u2019d rather be a hypocrite than somebody who never changes.\u2019 Touch\u00e9! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not the same person, I was 10 or 20 years ago, at the height of my all devouring passion for music, be like jazz, funk soul, Latin Brazilian, pop, easy, listening metal, whatever. Back, then I was a drinker and smoker (of weed). I\u2019m trying to be sober these days and the ravages of time, and Miss spent time at that (perhaps?) have left their marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, interestingly, I also came across something recently that talks about scars, and scar-tissue. I\u2019ll have to dig that quote out as I\u2019ve completely forgotten what it was or where I heard it. But I believe whoever it was – poss\u2019 Tom Waits? – was talking about how scars are the visual markers, if you like (or perhaps even the Momentos?) of traumas we have been through. And, very crucially, survived. Perhaps these moments, and the scars they leave, are things we shouldn\u2019t shun, but, strange as it may sound, embrace?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I\u2019m starting to digress massively into psychology, or whatever the hell it is. Let\u2019s come back to the music\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was Verocai\u2019s only album as an artist in his own right. And it sank without trace! Read more about Arthur here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sweet creaming Jesu! I\u2019ve put off buying this for years. Partly on account of usually being broke, admittedly. But also partly because I\u2019ve sometimes bought Brazilian music and been a little bit disappointed with it. I was a little worried this might be one of those instances. I could\u2019ve listened to this stuff online. And … <\/p>\n

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