The singer and songwriter from Minas Gerais, Celso Adolfo, has a new musical work out.
On the date that marks his 40 years of a successful career that began in 1983 with the release of the album “Coração brasileiro,” produced by Milton Nascimento.
The artist wants a celebration with his new album “Pratiano,” which comes filled with poetry in an excellent quality work, like many of his projects throughout his career.
“Pratiano,” his new work, is a poetic tribute to his origins in São Domingos do Prata, the city where he was born and which inspired him like a childhood photo. He says the CD was born ready.
“From looking at a birthday photo of when I was about 8 or 9 years old, suddenly a song came to me that could only be called Pratiano,” he shares.
What did that boy in short pants and polished shoes think? He thought a lot, dreamed a lot, and ‘thought in music,’ connected to what he had, what he didn’t have, and what he wished to achieve, drawing some rationality from what he saw in his environment.
And the boy arrived here, arrived like this, as a conclusion in the title song of this CD, with the world not always at my feet, but under my eyes, a world reflected in a set of songs with varied subjects and rhythms, including sambas, songs of painful loves, waltzes, a rhythm I called “coco-calangado,” among other compositions without a clear genre.
And so I am, a pratiano who leans on his guitar and on the starting point that is his land, proudly speaking of such vivid memories.
He mentions that “many of the songs tell the real story of a boy, who is now the way I am. I arrived completely satisfied with myself, I do not harbor negative feelings.”
The album features a partnership with a poem by Henriqueta Lisboa set to music by the composer. The track “Divina Luz de Janeiro” is a game in which poetry is launched without limits.
Other songs, like the track “Eu bebo do samba,” directly and indirectly reference Chico Buarque, Elza Soares, Paulinho da Viola, Hermínio Bello de Carvalho, Bituca, José Trajano, Luiz Simas, and particularly the friends from Café Linguiça Forévis who used to meet in Savassi during lunchtime.
Celso Adolfo has an extensive discography that includes soundtracks for plays and films, as well as special projects, having performed abroad numerous times interpreting his compositions.
Soon, he reveals, he will be on a tour in the USA, among nostalgic Minas Gerais natives, with his guitar speaking of the corners of Minas Gerais, telling its many stories in an unmissable show.
LUCIANO WROTE
Journalist and writer