With several years having passed, Maria João ‘s solo album with the fourteen songs from the traditional Brazilian songbook has finally been released! João. Just like this: “João”. Maria João has released the solo album bearing her name after twelve year’s cooperation with pianist-composer Mario Laginha. During the musical journey starting from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, you encounter transcripts and adaptations of traditional songs that even Maria believes have proven risky venture...s, to put it mildly. This is one reason why she has given her own name to the album. Since João is a name by which she is called only by her family and close friends, she thought that was a proper way to emphasise that the songs reflected her own special view. The connection between the singer and Brazilian music has been easy to detect in all her previous works as well, even in Chorinho Feliz, a composition of João’s musical soul mate Laginha. The rhythms, tunes and the Brazilian temperament are so vividly alive in João that, in the adaptations, it was toning them down a little that posed the problem in fact. The end result is an interesting mixture of old hits: Tico Tico no Fubá by Zequinha de Abreu, Canto de Ossanha by Powell e Vinicius, No Tabuleiro da Baiana by Ary Barroso as well as three songs of the Edu Lobo-Chico Buarque duo and a composition by Caetano Veloso (Dor de Cotovelo). Some other adaptations are works of the young generation, of which Lenine, Carlinhos Brown and Marisa Monte as well as Chico Buarque participated in making the album. Since Maria João is unable to sing the songs in their original form “just like that”, her personality is felt in each of them, not to forget that she fully uses the high and low pitches of her voice, too. While she performs the romantic song Meu Namorado almost whispering, in A Outra, she bursts out with energy. The album was recorded in the studio by a musical team of really colourful personalities, with Mario Delgado on the guitar, Yuri Daniel on the bass guitar, Alexandre Frazão on the drums, Eleanor Picas at the harp and Miguel Ferreira, also producer of the album, on keyboard instruments.
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