Adventure Music Label Sampler

[JSngry]

http://www.dustygroo...p%3Bincl_cs%3D1

Picked this up b/c of the compiler, for whose own work I have infinite respect and admiration, and was not disappointed.

Mostly Brazilian artists, with a few American mandolin-centric "string music" things (about which I know even less than the Brazilian cuts). All of it seems to be rooted in the tradition, nothing really post-analog in concept or execution, so maybe relative to contemporary Brazil, this stuff is all harmlessly retro like, like a 3 CD set of Eric Alexander And Friends or something like that, but damn, some of these melodies are moving in their sheer elegance. Some are just polite, but some are genuinely elegant. Or at least seem to be to me. Ear of the behearer, and all that, etc.

There's nothing really "bad" on here, and enough of it is intriguing to one degree or another to merit replays of all three discs to get a handle on where to go or not go from here.

Haven't even bothered to follow along yet to see who's doing what, but anticipate following up on some of these artists in full-album form.

Three CDs worth of new music for under $20.00 is a deal I can recommend to almost anybody.

Track listing (courtesy of Amazon, where the price is a buck higher. Other than Moacir Santos, none of these names are familiar to me. some will remain so, but others will not.

Disc: 1

1. Vinheta Espanha ou do Agreste? (Spanish Vignette or Wild Northeast?) - Orquestra Popular de Câmara

2. Bluishmen - Moacir Santos

3. Keeper of the Flame - Tom Lellis

4. For Elis - Clarice Assad

5. Gregorian Samba - Daniel Santiago

6. Se Você Disser Que Sim (If You Say Yes) - Muiza Adnet

7. Cravo e Canela (Cinnamon and Clove) - Ricardo Silveira and Luiz Avellar

8. Song of Delight - Maeve Gilchrist

9. The Cat, The Mouse, and The Chicken - Caterina Lichtenberg and Mike Marshall 1

0. Brasilianos - Hamilton de Holanda Quinteto

11. Tanto Canto (So Much Song) - Lea Freire

12. Adeus America - Samba Meets Boogie Woogie

13. Roseando - Mike Marshall and Jovino Santos Neto

14. Sharon by the Sea - Eva Scow and Dusty Brough

15. Em Torno de Influências (Around the Influences) - Benjamin Taubkin

Disc: 2

1. Felipe - Moacir Santos

2. Road Song - Alex Hargreaves

3. Colsas Demais Por Fazer (Many Things To Do) - Marcos Amorim

4. El Futuro, flor (The Future, flor) - Florencia Ruiz

5. Tonada - Maria Marquez

6. Passareiro (Birdsong) - Jovino Santos Neto

7. Ano Bom (Good Year) - Hamilton de Holanda Quinteto

8. Dirt Road (Estrada de Terra) - Philippe Baden Powell

9. Vento (Wind) - Nicola Stilo and Toninho Horta

10. Outro Rio (Another Rio) - Ricardo Silveira

11. Ima - Claudia Villela and Ricardo Peixoto

12. Baião Två - Gui Mallon

13. Yo No Tengo Quien Me Quiera (I've No One To Love Me) - Lucía Pulido

14. Flower of Life (Flor da Vida) - Yamandu Costa and Hamilton de Holanda

15. Canções e Momentos - Tom Lellis

Disc: 3

1. Alma do Nordeste (Soul of the Northeast) - Jovino Santos Neto

2. De Repente, Estou Feliz (Happily Happy) - Moacir Santos

3. Um Trombone na Rua Tereza (A Trombone on Tereza Street) - Vittor Santos

4. Receita de Samba (Recipe for Samba) - Mike Marshall & Choro Famoso

5. Music Inside (Ela) - Mario Adnet

6. Signals of Rain - André Vasconcellos

7. Cumbia Cienaguera - Antonio Arnedo

8. Nature's Princess - Maria Marquez

9. El Diablo Suelta (The Loose Devil) - Mike Marshall

10. Lamentos do Morro (Moans of the Hill) - Modern Traditions Ensemble

11. Agora Eu Sei (Now I Know) - Moacir Santos

12. The Music and the Word - Contemporary America

13. Forslund - Mike Marshall & Darol Anger with Väsen

14. Choro Moreno - Orquestra Popular de Câmara

Edited September 4, 2012 by JSngry

[GA Russell]

Jim, you may remember this thread from 2006.

[JSngry]

Sorry, missed that one. But geez, this label's survived for 10 years, so they must be serving their market (whoever it is) well, that's all I can say. I'll be buying some more of their stuff, for sure.

They've released Monday's latest album as well, and the story that she tells in the liner notes is that she had never heard of the label either, and then one day a box shows up with copies of almost their entire catalog. She was unfamiliar with almost all of it, and she's not exactly a rookie when it comes to musics Brazilian,so ...Adventure Music indeed, at least some of it is.

[Chuck Nessa]

Hmmm.

[JSngry]

  On 9/4/2012 at 10:35 PM, JSngry said:

Three CDs worth of new music for under $20.00 is a deal I can recommend to almost anybody.

  On 9/4/2012 at 11:12 PM, Chuck Nessa said:

Hmmm.

Yes, I had you in mind.

Then again, maybe not. But $17.00 for three CDs of music that ranges from "nice" to nice is a good deal, period, unless one does not ever do either "nice" or nice and/or Brazil, in which case, this will not be a product of interest.

[seeline]

Their Moacir Santos releases are *really* worth picking up - one (Ouro Negro) came out in Brazil in a limited edition and is o.p. now.

I also really like Orquestra Popular da Camara and Hamilton de Hollanda's discs. "Samba Meets Boogie Woogie" is really fun and well-done - sambas from the 1930s-50s that have witty lyrics about the collision (and, sometimes, assimilation) of Brazilian music and N. American jazz. (João Gilberto fans will recognize some of the cuts, like "Adeus America.")

On the others in their catalog, well... I think some are really nice, and some are tailored to fit a certain niche market in the English-speaking world, while others are by gifted artists but not quite "there" for me.

I hope the label survives... so many small labels have gone down the drain over the past 10 years.

I think the owners of Adventure are working with some good small labels (mostly artist-run) in Brazil, and that many of the things they issue have had just about zero exposure down there. Really, they're releasing a lot of stuff that's - at best - niche music in Brazil itself.

Edited September 6, 2012 by seeline