Carnival

Artist: The Carnival
Label: Rev-Ola
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5013929437524
ASIN: B0002LHQGS

Release Date: 2004-08-26

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Tracks:

Canto de Carnival
Laia Ladaia
Sweets for My Sweet
Take Me for a Little While
Turn, Turn, Turn
Hope
Walk on By
Famous Myth
Son of a Preacher Man
Reach Out for Me
Love So Fine
Word
Where There's a Heartache (There Must Be a Heart) [*]
Truth About It [*]
Son of a Preacher Man [Mono Version][*]

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Customer Reviews:

A Great Sound.......2007-02-24

I am probably one of the biggest Brasil 66 and Fifth Dimension fans out there and I really enjoyed this album. Production by Bones Howe and vocal arrangements by Bob Alcivar, you can't go wrong. The vocals of this group aren't as strong as the 5th Dimension, but that is hard to match, considering the talents of Florence Larue,Ron Townson,Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. It's still a great album, and for anyone who loves this period of pop, you will like this one. My favorites are Love So Fine, Famous Myth, Reach Out for Me and Hope.

The Carnival.......2005-02-22

I can now die because The Carnival is finally now on CD.

I was based at Yokota Air Base Japan when this album came out. Armed Forces Radio gave Laia Ladaia and some of the other songs ample air time, and I bought the album, one of the best I have ever listened to in my 55 years on this earth.

The group was similar to Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66, in fact, 3 of the members were from that band. Nonetheless, although I am a fan of Sergio's various bands, The Carnival had a more fast paced beat, with groovy, boss, beta, bitchin, out of sight vocals, and I believe was the better musical group, with superior arrangements.

Thanks again for bringing back some of the fondest memories of my life, drinking Kirin Beer at the bar Apollo in the company of a good looking bar girl, while listening to The Carnival on the juke box.

Not recommended.......2005-02-15

As a huge fan of Brasil '66 and a fan of the Fifth Dimension, I had looked forward to buying this CD when I heard about it. I thought it would be a combination of Fifth Dimension harmonies melded to Brasil '66's insinuating bossa nova beat. Unfortunately,it did not live up to expectations. Other than "Canto de Carnival" which consists of Brasilian percussion, and "Laia Ladaia," both of which sound great, there's not much Brazilian in any of these tunes. According to the liner notes, the group was backed by American studio musicians, and while there's a trace of Brazil here and there, it's mostly straight ahead rock/pop percussion. Also, one of the things that made Brasil '66 so distinctive was Sergio Mendes' jazz piano, which adds a texture and a personality this group lacks. The singing is reasonably good and occasionally sounds like Fifth Dimension harmonies, but Marilyn McCoo is a much better singer than either of the women in this group. There's a few good songs, but most of them were done better by other artists, even the aforementioned "Laia Ladaia" which sounds better on Brasil '66's "Fool on the Hill" album. I do like the lilting arrangement on "Love So Fine" very much.

The most interesting thing about the album is the liner notes, in which singer Janis Hansen recounts why Mendes broke up the original Brasil '66 lineup after three very successful albums.

I still think there's a lot of potential in the fusion of the two sounds, but it went unrealized here.

Great CD for fans of Sergio Mendes and The 5th Dimension.......2004-12-25

The Carnival in LP form was one of the holy grails for collectors of Sergio Mendes-related material. The group consisted of three of the original Brasil '66 members, who left the group around the time "Look Around" was released (there are some interesting details about this from vocalist Janis Hansen included in the liner notes for this latest CD release). The first CD release, from several years ago, was a bare-bones (not to be confused with bare-Bones Howe, LOL) affair. This latest release rectifies that, and features as bonus tracks the two singles the group recorded for United Artists that never made it to a proposed second album, as well as a mono mix (not up to snuff, perhaps the source material was damaged) of "Son of a Preacher Man." When you consider that the group featured seasoned veterans of Brasil '66 (though, strangely, the rhythm tracks were all done by session people, not the B'66 members--though the session folk are all the cream of the LA scene of the time, including Pete Jolly) working under the aegis of Bones Howe and Bob Alcivar (who would later work with Sergio himself on Sergio's two Bell albums), you get an interesting hybrid that a lot of people have compared to Brasil '66 crossed with The 5th Dimension. The vocal arrangements are uniformly lush and gorgeous (especially on one of their two charting singles, "Laia Ladaia"), and while the album suffers a bit from typical Bones Howe overproduction, it's a really worthwhile trip for anyone who loves the two groups this group most resembles.

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