Whoever has seen the DVD has already imagined what was happening. And who programmed the show too: the tickets for the Colosseum in Lisbon were of a single price (with access to any point of the room) and the public seats were removed, so that you could not miss the show. 39 be improvised a dance floor. But it's one thing to listen and watch a video, another to feel the allure and strength of a show like The Great Encounter capable of " shake "a room. Even so, it is convenient to make a reservation: the show that celebrates the 20 years of the original Grande Encontro bringing together Alceu Valença, Elba Ramalho and Geraldo Azevedo (Zé Ramalho, who participated in all three previous, I do not want), this is not parallel to the moist aerobics sessions to which we have accustomed singers like Ivete Sangalo or Daniela Mercury, it is something else, more refined; a collection of rhythms and styles northeast that appeal to dance but also to the intellect, in a parade through which the baião, frevo, maracatu, ciranda, embolada, xote, in a rich diversity of genres that excite the senses and also comforts the soul. There is in them a real glow that refuses to give in to the temptation of frivolity, a sense of the most famous roots and legends (Luiz Gonzaga, Jackson do Pandeiro, Dominguinhos) that leads us in a way or in a way. Another to a historic setting of their paths. ] Alceu Valença, Elba Ramalho and Geraldo Azevedo
Lisbon, Coliseu dos Recreios
Thursday, July 12 at 9 pm
First part: Almerio
Room almost full
(Repeated at the Coliseu do Porto on the 13th, at 21h)
Because Alceu, Elba and Geraldo held individual careers for decades, serving this meeting to celebrate the strength of the Northeast music and its authors. The Great Meeting 20 years differs essentially from the first (recorded in Canecão, July 1996) in two points: where it was totally acoustic, voice and guitars, without preconceived scenario, the current one gains the weight and the acoustic and electric force of a strip of seven elements, added by colorful and visually sumptuous scenarios; and where the first was young and perspired lightly, it shows a mature vitality.
At the Lisbon Coliseum, where many people danced happily (in the audience or even on the stands) all night, the alignment did not go very far from what was recorded on the DVD registered in Brazil in 2016 (and already available in Portuguese stores). He began with Annunciation from the beginning, in a festive setting, and followed the script without making it disappear, with Caravan Give Me Kiss Sabiá [immortalthemeofLuizGonzagasimmortaloneother Sabiá Tom Jobim's Parrot of the future and White Day [Belle femme] [Belle femme] First with the three singers on stage, then only with Alceu and Geraldo and finally with Geraldo alone. Geraldo who, without being as effusive as his companions in this adventure, captivates the audience with his surrounding voice and the musical and poetic depth of his songs. In this sense, The Great Encounter is also a multiple show, trio, duet or solo, imminent each of the protagonists in the limelight at the same time. It is with Tabor color that Geraldo yields to the Elbe the protagonism, joining it in Bug of 7 Heads Crying and Singing and The Principle of Pleasure all songs with your signature. Then there was the island of Elba, brilliant (and what voice, already redone of an infection that tolhera in vespers) in subjects like Chalk floor Al that saudade d'ocê or the and I want only one xodó celebrating both Jackson do Pandeiro, Luiz Gonzaga and Dominguinhos, the respective authors. It was an electrifying interpretation, from the first theme, the Elba went down to the public to sing in the middle of the audience, getting a warm and vibrant attention.
Then it was the turn of Elba to convey the testimony to Alceu, singing together Ciranda of the Red Rose and each shaking a shaker while the other solava. When Alceu appropriated the scene, he departed from a theme (absent from the Brazilian alignment) that will tell more about Portugal than Brazil, even though it was composed at Lisbon and with several local references: Loas of Lisboa . It should be quoted part: "At the foot of a square / Appeal of joy / There was a street / Who would answer / Why this rain / Without philosophy, / The great truth / Has the rain rained / The great truth / Is it the "Alceu, a born agitator, then paraded some of his" fatal "themes, those who take viewers from the first chords: The Day Belle . With the party at its peak, and with Elba and Geraldo returning to the scene, they played the three, and with the band at full speed, Moon taxi In the streets I walked [19659004 and Frevo woman this latest creation of Zé Ramalho and a way to bring it to a Portuguese scene, even physically absent.
Northeast Musical and Cultural Celebration, Apologia de (19459004) The Great Encounter embraced Lisbon with the warmth that made it come and be reborn in Brazil. Are you late? PS: – In the first part of the show, he performed Alerio, a singer and actor from Pernambuco who had already opened The Great Encounter in Rio de Janeiro in 2017. Almerio remembers , on stage, a mix of Roger Daltrey's The Beginning (bare trunk) and a fur coat or bands) with a set of singers like Ney Matogrosso or Filipe Catto (for androgyny of the voice and pose, though far from these), still resembling someone who does more than looking for a distinct voice in the already very pluralistic Brazilian panorama. Near the rock and the representation certainly by the theatrical way, Almerio presents to the Colosseum several songs of his repertoire, as Tremulous meat Secret I must give you or Why you with a somewhat seductive version of Chico Buarque Tropical Fate . To take into account in its future development. Also in Portugal, Almério will participate, with his group, in the festival Mimo, in Amarante, on July 21 at 20h
