Vira Loucos
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{{Infobox album
| name = Vira Loucos
| type = Studio
| artist = Cyro Baptista
| cover = Vira Loucos.jpg
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| released = August 19, 1997
| recorded = September–November 1996, Hillside Sound, Englewood, NJ
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| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 45:08
| label = Avant Avan 061
| producer = John Zorn & Kazunori Sugiyama
| chronology = Cyro Baptista
| prev_title = Cyro
| prev_year = 1988
| next_title = Supergenerous
| next_year = 2000
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Vira Loucos (subtitled Cyro Baptista Plays the Music of Villa-Lobos) is an album by percussionist Cyro Baptista performing the compositions by or inspired by Heitor Villa-Lobos which was released on the Japanese Avant label in 1997.[http://www.cyrobaptista.com/page.cfm?content=disc Cyro Baptista discography] accessed January 30, 2014
Reception
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In his review for Allmusic, Brian Olewnick notes that "Baptista has a assembled a group both light on its feet and capable of negotiating the trickiest of rhythmic passages and deliriously romantic melodies with wit, enthusiasm, and grace. Highly recommended".{{allMusic|first=Brain|last=Olewnick|class=album|title=Cyro Baptista – Vila Loucos > Review|id=mw0000057578|accessdate=January 30, 2014}}
Track listing
All compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos except as indicated
- "Dansa" – 3:33
- "Passion in the Basement" (Cyro Baptista, Naná Vasconcelos) – 3:31
- "Cantiga" – 5:47
- "Ama/Teresinha de Jesus" (Baptista) – 4:52
- "Complaint/Sabia" (Baptista/Hervé Cordovil) – 3:15
- "Choro/Trrenzinho Caipira" – 6:40
- "Choros Number 8" – 3:51
- "Dansa Do Indio Branco" – 3:31
- "Ciranda" (Baptista) – 5:09
- "Sapo Cururu" (Baptista) – 5:02
Personnel
- Cyro Baptista – percussion, vocals
- Greg Cohen – bass
- Romero Lubambo – cavaquinho acoustic guitar
- Marc Ribot – electric guitar acoustic guitar, banjo
- John Zorn – alto saxophone (tracks 1 & 10)
- Vanessa Fallabella (tracks 1 & 5), Naná Vasconcelos (track 2) – vocals
- Chango Spasiuk – cantiga accordion (track 3)
- Akiko Matsumoto, Alessandro Ciari, Carolina Teizeria, Healey Gabison, Kaleb Moreau, Lauren Melquiond, Lira Teizeria, Moran Broza, Roman Broza, Sabina Ciari, Stepanie Teixeira, Tessa Fernandes – children's choir (track 10)
References
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