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It would take me half my life and more money than I possess to gather together all the material on this collection, which represents the earliest recordings by Joyce Morena, whose artistic name is simply Joyce. She is internationally famous and well-respected for her classy bossa and MPB albums these days. But in the beginning, she was a pretty courageous, experimental and prodigious talent. The first track on this album, Olhos Feiteiзeiros, was recorded when she was only SIXTEEN YEARS old at the instigation of Roberto Menescal with the group Sambacana. Why do I have lecherous images of Menescal giving Joyce "a back rub" in the studio to relax her? oh that's right, because I'm a pervert.
There is a gap of four years between that 1964 recording and the rest of the material on this collection. Beginning in 1968 it is as if she didn't sleep. Makes me feel really lazy, like I ought to make something useful out of my life. She had innumerable songs entered into the famous Festivals (none of them winners), released singles, had songs included on soundtracks to telenovelas, got married to Nelson Angelo and had kids, all before 1972. Two of those festival songs were also recorded (with more positive public reception) by Beth Carvalho - Andanзa, and Cavalheira Andante. But these versions are super cool, as is the original recording of "Copacabana Velha de Guerra" which would be rerecorded by Elis Regina on her 1970 album "Em Pleno Verгo." I have to say.. I think I like Joyce's original better.
As fun as the first part of the disc might be, it is with this last song that things start to get really intriguing. Hanging out with the likes of Luis Eзa and Nelson Angelo, her music took on a pointedly trippy and experimental edge, influenced by Tropicбlia but not dominated by it, in fact seeming to be on another path entirely, one that ran from the pristine beaches of Rio with its sunlight reflected in water and flesh and up through the climbing hills and mountains of Minas Gerais where the sun grows colder and refracts in the jagged edges of stone and crystal rock formations. And that's why it seems natural that by the end of this she is recording a composition from the Clube da Esquina (Nada Serб Como Antes by Milton Nascimento and Ronaldo Bastos), and the compilation ends right at the time when she would make her cult-worshiped landmark album with Nelson Angelo in 1972 of pastoral acoustic psychedelia.
It wouldn't quite be correct to say that Joyce is underrated, because she gets plenty of respect, including Grammy awards, for her work. But fans of her more mainstream albums are probably rarely if ever drawn to this other stuff, and it seems like 'the hipsters' are a little late in catching up to seeing just how damn cool and edgy the stuff she was doing 'back in the day' really was.
There is a gap of four years between that 1964 recording and the rest of the material on this collection. Beginning in 1968 it is as if she didn't sleep. Makes me feel really lazy, like I ought to make something useful out of my life. She had innumerable songs entered into the famous Festivals (none of them winners), released singles, had songs included on soundtracks to telenovelas, got married to Nelson Angelo and had kids, all before 1972. Two of those festival songs were also recorded (with more positive public reception) by Beth Carvalho - Andanзa, and Cavalheira Andante. But these versions are super cool, as is the original recording of "Copacabana Velha de Guerra" which would be rerecorded by Elis Regina on her 1970 album "Em Pleno Verгo." I have to say.. I think I like Joyce's original better.
As fun as the first part of the disc might be, it is with this last song that things start to get really intriguing. Hanging out with the likes of Luis Eзa and Nelson Angelo, her music took on a pointedly trippy and experimental edge, influenced by Tropicбlia but not dominated by it, in fact seeming to be on another path entirely, one that ran from the pristine beaches of Rio with its sunlight reflected in water and flesh and up through the climbing hills and mountains of Minas Gerais where the sun grows colder and refracts in the jagged edges of stone and crystal rock formations. And that's why it seems natural that by the end of this she is recording a composition from the Clube da Esquina (Nada Serб Como Antes by Milton Nascimento and Ronaldo Bastos), and the compilation ends right at the time when she would make her cult-worshiped landmark album with Nelson Angelo in 1972 of pastoral acoustic psychedelia.
It wouldn't quite be correct to say that Joyce is underrated, because she gets plenty of respect, including Grammy awards, for her work. But fans of her more mainstream albums are probably rarely if ever drawn to this other stuff, and it seems like 'the hipsters' are a little late in catching up to seeing just how damn cool and edgy the stuff she was doing 'back in the day' really was.
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