Nascimento

by Milton Nascimento

Overview

Nascimento is Milton Nascimento's most deeply Brazilian-sounding album in a long time, and also the most downcast, but none the worse in its emotional impact. He adopts the battering, heavy percussion rhythms of the folia boxes (popularized by Olodum) on several tracks, which frame the main portion of the album and give it enormous vitality. There isn't a bumper crop of new songs here (only half of the 12 tracks), but what there is represents the most interesting material he has recorded in some time, including the beautiful "Rouxinol" with its haunting accordion, flute and a gently hypnotic rhythm, and the arresting "Louva-A-Deus," pitting Nascimento's voice against the huge drums. Particularly affecting is Leo Masliah's "Guardanapos de Papel," sung in Portuguese at first and reprised in Spanish at the album's close, which has an almost despairing Nascimento singing about prophetic yet impoverished poets with tasteful piano/keyboard textures. He offers a touching vocalese on his friend Wayne Shorter's "Ana Maria" from their collaboration Native Dancer as a memorial to Shorter's late wife (lost on the TWA plane that crashed into the Atlantic in 1996), with soprano saxophonist Nivaldo Ornelas offering a different take on Shorter's lead. Just about everyone seems to take on "Ol' Man River" sooner or later, but Nascimento does it as a vocalese with large choir -- and it works. So far, this CD represents his best work of the '90s and even a good part of the '80s, a genuine renaissance for the Brazilian icon. ~ Richard S. Ginell

Product Details

Release Date:	06/10/1997
Label:	Warner Bros.
UPC:	0093624649229
Rank:	132362

Tracks

1. Louva-A-Deus (The Praying Mantis)
2. O Cavaleiro (The Rider)
3. Guardanapos de Papel (Paper Napkins)
4. Cuerpo y Alma (Body and Soul)
5. Rouxinol (The Nightingale)
6. Janela Para O Mundo (Window to the World)
7. E Agora, Rapaz? (And What Now, Man?)
8. Levantados Do Ch¿¿o (Ground Raised)
9. Ana Maria
10. Ol' Man River
11. Os Tambores de Minas (Minas Drums)
12. Biromes y Servilletas (Paper Napkins)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Milton Nascimento   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Lani Groves   Vocals (Background)
Jeff Mironov   Spanish Guitar
Hugo Fattoruso   Piano,Accordion,Conductor,Keyboards
Rob Mounsey   Bass,Flute,Chimes,Percussion
Vaneese Thomas   Vocals (Background)
Robertinho Silva   Drums,Bongos,Congas,Djembe,Rainstick,Wood Block,Peneira Cheia
Anthony Jackson   Bass (Electric)
Wilson Lopes   Guitar
Ronaldo   Afoxe,Bells,Cabasa,Claves,Pandeiro,Triangle,Pandereta,Rainstick,Percussion,Peneira Cheia
Nivaldo Ornelas   Flute,Sax (Soprano)
Marco Figueeiredo   Choir/Chorus
Bebel Lobo   Choir/Chorus
Manuela Duque   Choir/Chorus
Marina Pantoja   Choir/Chorus
Luana Carvalho   Choir/Chorus
Gustavo Carvalho   Choir/Chorus
Fernando Uchoa   Choir/Chorus
Bernardo Lobo   Choir/Chorus
Tulio Mourao   Keyboards,Synthesizer
Lizzie Bravo   Choir/Chorus
Ricardo Cheib   Pandeiro
Luis Alves   Bass
Leonardo Boechat   Choir/Chorus
Barbara Leitao   Choir/Chorus
Francisco Fattoruso   Choir/Chorus
Alberto Continentino   Bass (Electric)
Lincoln Cheib   Drums,Pandereta,Peneira Cheia
Regis Faria   Choir/Chorus
Roger Curx   Choir/Chorus
Maria Fattoruso   Choir/Chorus
Fernanda Boechat   Choir/Chorus
Mardey Souza   Vocals (Background)
Cristina Doria   Choir/Chorus
Alexander Amaral   Choir/Chorus
Ana Barros   Choir/Chorus
Roberto Coelho   Choir/Chorus
Tawatha Agee   Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Kevin Crouse   Assistant Engineer
Chico Buarque   Composer
Russ Titelman   Mixing,Producer
Leo Masliah   Composer
Dinho Caninana   Composer
Dave O'Donnell   Mixing,Engineer
Wayne Shorter   Composer
Hugo Fattoruso   Arranger
Milton Nascimento   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Tom Recchion   Design,Art Direction
Marcio Borges   Composer,Translation
Marcio Gama   Engineer
Fernando Brant   Composer
Eduardo Mateo   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Wilson Lopes   Composer
Vania Toledo   Photography
Joanne Schwartz   Production Coordination
Marilene Gondim   Translation,Production Coordination
Elizabeth Campos Silva   Assistant Producer
Jack Hersca   Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Ted Jensen   Mastering
Jerome Kern   Composer