Berimbao is a kind of bow with a resonator, a funny little thing and a marvelous musical instrument.
A gourd, a stick, a stone, a smaller stick, a tiny wicker basket, a string, and a coin.
How do you like that?
The basis of the style, by the way, is also the most important element of capoeira.
And bossy at times.
Everything there, in Brazil, is intertwined and mixed up - like in the Amazon jungle.
Berimbau is the sixth track from the 1966 album Love, Strings and Jobim - the pinnacle, the apotheosis of Latin American jazz, merged in ecstatic pleasure with bossa nova.
The whole album.
All 12 tracks.
Tom Jobim wrote only two of them: Eu Preciso de Você (Hurry Up and Love Me) and Samba Torto (Pardon My English).
It would seem, why such details?
Moreover, Tom Jobim (Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim) is a significant part of the planet's air ocean - we breathe it, even if we don't know anything about it.
Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema) was written by Jobim in 1962 and has been inscribed in our DNA since that time - you can't even imagine how many times every day of the earth it is read by consciousness.
The most famous, out of competition and "expert opinions", thing in the bossa nova genre.
Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking.
And when she passes, each one she passes
Goes Aah...
And bossanova, by the way, is a half-breed, crazy sexy and never boring sister of Orleans jazz, Dixieland.
Why is this relationship?
On the basis of boiling blood and inextinguishable spirit, the flame of human passions invariably devours you when listening to the mentioned styles.
There is one difference: bossanova is a slow and fluid fire, a liquid sun, scalding hot, pacifying the distraught flesh.
More or less like this.
And you thought they were joking to themselves in Brazil?
When a state arises, exactly expressed by the Russian word “nauseous”, put Love, Strings and Jobim on the needle - it will let you go, you will be able to breathe, the air, of which, as already mentioned, Tom Jobim is, will heal and cleanse your consciousness to the level of “ crystal clear."
Strange, right?
Why is the name of one Jobim on the envelope?
Who are the rest?
A wide variety of Latin American (mostly Brazilian) composers and singers.
For example, Eumir Deodato, who released a solo album Prelude (Deodato album) in 1973, which sounded incredibly and hip-arranged Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) by Richard Strauss.
And from here the thread stretches straight to Elvis, all of whose concerts in the 70s began with this very introduction, and therefore it is very clear what Deodato was inspired by and by whom.
And Elvis, in turn, paid tribute to the "Brazilian Dixieland" by recording Bossa Nova Baby in 1963, which is still sung by all Latina dancers...
Some confusion, right?
“Get used to it, my friend, there will be plenty of confusion here - and what is a real fairy tale without confusion?”
Bosanova is a fairy tale - a dream on a hot afternoon, not recognizing where reality is, and whether it exists.
You hid from the scorching rays, the sea wind brings the desired coolness.
You don't have to go anywhere and you don't have to do anything.
Perhaps never again...
When she walks she's like a samba.
When she walks, she's like a samba.
That swings so cool and sways so gentle
That when she passes, each one she passes
Goes Aah...
The brightest and most sensual performance of The Girl from Ipanema belongs, undoubtedly, to Astrud Gilbert, the wife and muse of the Brazilian guitarist, singer and composer João Gilbert.
It was he who gave the music of Tom Jobim a sound close to unearthly and unearthly - like angels humming behind the ear, purring.
Angels with such wings sing very well.
Never seen?
So at least listen.
Do you remember what the weather and times were then?
The world swayed smoothly, barely holding on to the abyss...
Atomic runaway race, atomic tabasco and jalapeno burgers, atomic bomb shelters for the family with all the comforts... They have it.
An atomic shield over the sky of the Motherland, atomic smoked sausages in a crispy bun, atomic dacha gatherings in the garden plots ... This is with us.
Explosions, tests, again tests and again explosions.
Humanity periodically loses its memory.
It seems to us that we will live forever - crazy little proud people in a mayonnaise jar - the world is big, and it tolerates us only for the time being.
Jobim, and I am absolutely sure of that, decided to give the planet, and all of us, a chance - music can be even stronger than an atomic bomb.
All that he left us is the elixir of true immortality, the quintessence of human joys and sorrows.
No impurities, no improvers or additives.
In April 1964, the album Getz / Gilberto was released - the legendary Stan Getz, one of the greatest saxophonists in the world, nicknamed The Sound for his ability and God's gift to extract almost human speech from a tenor saxophone, without translation, understandable speech, recorded it together with João Gilberto.
The session took place March 18–19, 1963 at New York's A&R Recording Studios.
Vocals on all tracks by João Gilberto (Portuguese) and his wife Astrud (English).
At the piano - Tom Jobim (eight out of ten tracks - his authorship).
This is the first ever jazz album to win a Grammy.
in the Album of the Year category.
In addition, the Grammys were awarded to the songs Girl from Ipanema (you know everything about her) and Desafinado (the pinnacle, you can’t say otherwise).
Success is so success.
The ease with which the recording was carried out is all the more surprising because Gilberto could interrupt any concert at any moment, referring to “insufficiently constructive and penetrating sound in the hall”, and Goetz even more - if he didn’t like something, he left the stage in silence.
We are all a little children when we are doing what we love.
And only if it, that thing, swallowed us up without a trace, we become adult children, aware of the measure and depth of what is happening.
Bosanova is not an instant analgesic at all - a long journey along the sea coast, along the surf line, along a thin thread between the fading evening sun and the endless summer day inside, where there is no place for despair and everyone is always alive ...
Let's also mention the legendary Jazz Samba album - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd of 1963, recorded in one day, February 13, 1962, in Washington, DC, in the building of Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church.
Of the eight tracks, Jobim wrote only two, but when you listen, you are sure of one thing: it's all him, Tom Jobim, and Stan Getz and Charlie Bird (a very serious jazz guitarist) are his emissaries.
The effect of presence - if you set the coordinates and time points of space, and then left it.
The follow-up effect is when you suggested a general intonation and its sincerity ignited the hearts of many.
The Caribbean (aka Cuban, and in Cuba itself - October) crisis was short (October 16-28, 1962) and taught humanity one thing: it’s not enough to be scared at the moment, it’s more important to be scared - and strong - later, when everything seems to be behind, but... Were we scared enough then?
John Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his post on October 14, 1964.
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And bossa nova Tom Jobim, who took over the world in the very beginning of the 1960s, as if she didn’t notice all this, almost without turning around and without looking, passed by.
However, in reality...
Go back to the album Love, Strings and Jobim - remember, this is 1966.
While you listen to it (try not to do it accompanied by a vacuum cleaner or a lawn mower), not once - it won't work, maybe three or four times in a row (verify this from personal experience) - your whole life will pass before you.
You will remember the first true love, and the first true victory.
You will remember how it was when the world was great and the trees reached the sky and the sun with their crowns.
You will remember the rain and wind on your face, the smell of old books and the aroma of wine in a tall glass.
You will remember the revelations of fate, its blows, its unexpected and therefore even more valuable gifts...
And on the 11th track, Morrer de Amor (I Live to Love You), you will discover such a stunning, so poignant and sweetly calm, full of contemplative grandeur picture of the universal meaning of being as harmony generated by chaos that...
I can’t do anything with myself - every time I see the final credits of the epic movie and the inscription “The End of the Movie” appears in full screen.
And I immediately want to start all over again, because that's how it works - the epic film of our life, any life.
Track 12 will help you with this.
Listen to good music and appreciate every moment of being - this is your ticket to eternity.
Tom Jobim, his glorious friends, and the entire bossan era deserve a separate big discussion - which means it will be so.
So far we've only talked about three very important records from that era.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.