De Hollanda Vol.1

The experience of writing, in 1965, the music for the play staging of João Cabral de Melo Neto's Morte E Vida Severina (which had an extremely successful international career) was a changing experience for the then novice composer Chico Buarque. Discovering the complementary power of the marriage between lyrics and music, he, who is both a good lyricist and composer, started a new phase that can be appreciated in this CD reissue of his very first album, recorded after his success in the II FMPB, in 1966, with "A Banda." Therefore, the repetitiveness of the melodic line of "Pedro Pedreiro" is coherent with the office of mason, the subject of the song; the spontaneous happiness and ingenuity of "A Banda," compatible to the naïve participation of bystanders after a parade band; and so on.
Musically, the predominance is of excellent samba renditions with strong bossa inflections and a firm grip by a brass section in an acoustic setting. The songs included represent some of Chico's all-time hits, such as "A Banda," "A Rita," "Madalena Foi Pro Mar," "Pedro Pedreiro," "Olê Olá," and several others. ~ Alvaro Neder|