Documentos do Arquivo Pessoal de Gilberto Gil

GILBERTO GIL OR Gilberto Gil to be inventive/innovative is nothing unusual - after all he was one of the few musicians who essentially re-invented the Brazilian cross-over sound after bossa nova. But for him to apply his creative to ardent commercialism is as equally strange. W In effect, Gil's gone pop! RAZILIAN pop music is a strange beast. It is a particularly poor foreign language entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. It might be 'iffy to us but, of course, it will sell by the cartload on its native soil - a fact that Gilberto has decided to exploit with his new album "Raca Humana". "The style I have used here is Brazilian pop music. Gil needlessly explained when we chatted before his recent gig over here, "a territory I have not aimed at or particularly reached before. "For the last fifteen years this market has been dominated by imported music but now Brazilian artists are turning that around. Everything has gone rock 'n' roll so why not join it and not ignore it. It's better to use it so there is a chance of something good Aug 6-19 BLUES & SOUL: 438 Brazilian PopAffair URA Jamaica as well. If he can be said to be dabbling with pop, he's positively a committed freak for om reggael tet "I love reggae. Those artists Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, oh, many others they make music I really adore. But reggae is only soft rock'n'roll, like bossa nova was soft samba, so sound I'm trying to capture on the album is really of a singawce." 40 og doon 0, as you may have guessed, not much succour Menina Baiana" fans, but a baris Gilberto a real kindly gent who enjoys himself and other people, and I for one wouldn't resent him any success - orates most on this point..bac This record will not only remind Brazilians we are now a modern country but the world, as well. We have cities, we are industrial, technological - we are not primitive. We are showing the First World we can compete. "I don't want to be seen as some ethnic trader. I am an elastic performer and I think that music fans like yourself will have to realise that Brazilian music no MUGA RY Brazilian music has been seen as added: "Don't forget that a source of raw material for the world to mine for many years. are doing is borrowing back we longer comes out of the trees."O theory Gil applies not only to R&B, etc. but to the music of Yes, well ... hold on a minute ... I mean ... well guilty! (MW) coming of it." Which is fair enough but, of course, for the different forms of North American music we all know and love, that's a moot that's been apparent since the Boston Tea Party This view Gil accepted but