Personalidade

Artist: Baden Powell
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731451413421
EAN: 0731451413421
ASIN: B0000046MR

Release Date: 1993-02-23

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Tracks:

Viagem
Das Rosas
Apelo
Chao De Estrelas
Consolacao
Carinhoso
Garota De Ipanema
Euridice
Samba Triste
Lamento
E De Lei
Tempo Feliz
A Lenda Do Abaete
Deixa

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Customer Reviews:

Muy Triste (Very Sad).......2006-10-25

Oh, I love this CD...that is why I kick myself everytime I think about how I lent it out, "Oh, don't worry dude, I just wanna burn a copy and then I'll give it right back. Honest. I swear..."

Well, I don't even have to tell you what happened, do I? I haven't seen that person or that CD in months, but I remember when I did have this CD, it was like Love at First Listen and that is unusual for a CD to take that strong of a hold on me on the first take. Usually I listen to an album three or four times and I "swirl" each song in my head and decide whether or not I like it, but with this one, I was able to unwrap the CD, put it in the stereo, sit back, and melt. I've never heard such gorgeous music in my whole life.

I don't know what genre this is classified as. Latin? Jazz? Latin Jazz? I really can't nor do I want to "peg" this recording. It almost seems kind of unfair to brand it and put it into a category. Let's just say that if you did manage to listen to all the samples without taking out your credit card and giving amazon your information, you're a pretty strong individual because I knew even before I had the CD in my hands that I had to have it.

And now it's gone and now I'm sad, but like with former lovers, sometimes the parting is just bittersweet. Yeah, I know I'm being melodramatic, but hey, this is my drama, okay?

Geesh.

So if you're reading this Mr. Sticky Fingers, and you know who you are, I hope you know that you brought a 6'1", 205lb man to tears. Just leave it on my doorstep and I won't ask any questions....

Sigh...

I'm gonna have to buy this again, huh?

Oh, well....

Peace & Blessings.

Peace

Magnificent.......2004-11-05

Baden Powell was a genius, a magician, a wizard . . . the shaman of the acoustic guitar. This is not "classical guitar" playing. No matter how many "classical guitarists" you have heard, you have no idea how much passion can be conveyed through this instrument unless you have listened to Baden Powell. Only Roland Dyens among living guitarists comes close. It is my personal theory that Dyens was inspired by Powell, who was living and touring in France and Germany while Dyens was a teenager. I have over 5,000 recordings of all kinds of music. If I had to save 5 or 6 cd's from a fire, Baden Powell's "Personalidade" and "Seresta Brasileira" would be among them. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about this music. The first 3 tracks here, "Viagem", "Das Rosas" (by Dori Caymmi), and the awe-inspiring "Apelo" I listen to almost every day. No musician I have ever heard communicates from the heart like Baden Powell . . . love, passion, longing, nostalgia, romance, heartbreak, fragile beauty. I thank God that he played guitar, the instrument of poetry. Perhaps Baden came to us from the planet "Guitar", to which he has now returned to play eternal duets with fellow native Joe Pass. In heaven, if I make it, I will spend my evenings sitting next to Jobim and listening to Baden, Joe and Roland, who undoubtedly will have shown up at the gig by then, improvising on "Round Midnight" and "Manha de Carnaval".

Baden Powell is splendid.......2001-07-30

Baden Powell was probably the most important and brilliant brazilian guitarrist ever. He's absolutely original, passionate, intense, aggressive yet sweet and melancolic some times. He was one of the most renowned and influential guitarrists in the world during the 70's, while he was living in Europe, most of time in Germany and France. However, for some strange reason, after he came back to Brazil in the 80's, his name started loosing fame and prestige. This CD has a very interesting selection of some of his most important songs. Some tracks are especially important: "Lenda do Abaete" shows one of his most amazing guitar techniques: Baden had a special and unique kind of rasgueado (very different from Spanish Flamenco, though) and he was able to play melodies that way, resulting in a very vigorous and unbelievable playing. "Viagem", by its turn, shows a very romantic and sweet Baden Powell playing with an orchestra. "Samba Triste" is absolutely incredible in terms of harmony and beauty. Baden has released over 35 discs from 1963 through 2001, when we lost him. Don't miss this CD, as well as "The Frankfurt Opera Concert" (absolutely amazing), "Os Afro-Sambas", "Brazil Guitar Magic" (compilation with Laurindo Almeida) and "Suite Afro-Consolacao".

Beyond human comprehension!!!.......1999-04-30

If you have ears, you must buy this record! It is an incredible, topographal overview of a little-known genius' work over 40 years. Let me preface, by first saying, there are no words, I repeat, nothing you can say, to communicate what goes on in this man, that is *precisely* why what comes out of him through that guitar will open a whole new world to you. I am a new Powell fan after hearing the incredible percussionist, Cyro Baptista praise him on a PBS World Music Special in the fall of 1998. Cyro said Baden gave the fast samba, and the complex playing style, definition, and there is much more to him than samba rythym. The things I heard in a 15 second clip of a 60's concert eminating from Powell, concerned me enough that there were things in music, so far beyond normal composition, above the shelf of everyday music, and so overlooked by the world in general, I had to buy it. The insane chords, rythyms, layerings, counterparts within his 3 piece! How could the world, especially musicians, for so long have ignored this mad-man?!?!? He can take a beautiful, airy, classical quote, say a Debussy-ish line, imply a tight pocketted samba rythym that may or may not actually exist or be audible, and make you cry and at the same time, be lost in a state of awe and wonder, probably much like the first time you took breath. I say it again, there are no words to describe the feelings that come from his brain through his fingers, out of that guitar. I cannot plead to you enough, if you take interest in music at all, regardless of the age, flavor or your attitude, you must listen to this man's work and use it to expand your own. Amazon is the first resource at all, for Baden that I have found, other than fan web site's listing LPs out of print. I have looked for 7 month's in major music stores, only to find this album, and one or two others. I have called major music catalogs, they haven't even heard of him. Amazon has easily over 15 recordings of this mystery man. For the very reason you loved music in the first place, check this man out.

Perfection.......1998-11-26

Mission: impossible. To put together the best of Baden Powell we would probably need the largest/longest CD ever. Dweller of the girl from Ipanema days, Baden joined the bossa-nova headquarters in its early years. A virtuose of the guitar, jazz, pop and afro-sambas with Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, repeated successful tours around Europe and USA, a forty years old musical career and a strong devotion to perfection lifts him up to the top level of cool. The album is definitly a must listen and the guys putting that compilation together were extremely fortunate.

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