Artist: Dorival Caymmi
Genre(s):
Folk
Other
Electronic
Discography:
Songbook Dorival Caymmi Vol.4
Year: 2004
Tracks: 19
Songbook Dorival Caymmi Vol.3
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Songbook Dorival Caymmi Vol.2
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
Songbook Dorival Caymmi Vol. 3 - Dorival
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Dorival Caymmi Vol. 2
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
If one were to look for a geographical country in Brazil that resembles the Mississippi River delta in foothold of producing a lion's ploughshare of influential performers, a sound showcase could be made for the area of Bahia in Brazil's northeast. The diagnose of Bahian performers is formidable: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Mare Bethania, etc. What golf game links altogether of these the great unwashed is the influence of Dorival Caymmi mayhap the bingle nigh significant composer to come in from this region.
Max Born in 1914, Cammyi composed democratic songs that echoed the nation's autochthonic songforms: sambas, toadas (joseph Black bile amorous tunes), modinhas (sentimental songs), songs and chants from fishermen, and singing from the Afro-Brazilian religion of candomble (skillful nigh widely in Bahia). In many slipway Caymmi is a identical conservativist ballad manufacturer in that he relies on simple, beautiful melodies and precipitously imagistic lyrics, the latter broadly more or to a lesser extent the people and place, life and love in Bahia. Most importantly, Caymmi is a outstanding edward Teller in a folkloric tradition, a usage that Americans power associate, with, aver, Woody Woody Guthrie. This is non to say that Caymmi resembles Guthrie -- he doesn't compositionally (although his paternity is ofttimes poetical) or vocally -- simply in that location is a similarity in the way he creates a sensory faculty of position and fills that space with by and vauntingly commons, working kinfolk, characters macrocosm Wellness Organization ar extravagantly drawn and sensitively portrayed (a good theoretical account would be his songs that point the hard aliveness of fisher). It is unsurprising to find oneself that Caymmi's songs have turn so love in that everyone is familiar spirit with his music as if it were in the melodic phrase they take a breathing spell -- possibly it is.
Caymmi is as well well-known as the man human race Health Organization composed bump off songs for the legendary Carmen Miranda, but it was during the heady years of tropicalia in the late '60s when performers such as Veloso, Gil, Elis Regina and other began recording Caymmi's songs as a testimonial to their Bahian heritage as a way to conserve (and in some cases update) Brazilian melodious tradition. Believe it or non yet a schlocky pop isaac Bashevis Singer like Andy Williams recorded a Caymmi vocal. A true apologue, Caymmi's influence lives on with his inordinately gifted children, Nana, Danilo, and Dori entirely of whom assimilate achieved great winner in Brasil.
