Marcos Valle
Marcos Valle
1983
Rankings
Why This Album Matters
The self-titled 1970 album, Marcos Valle, represents a significant landmark in the artist's career, marking a transition from bossa nova sounds to a bolder, cosmopolitan pop. In this work, Valle integrates influences from American soul and Wilson Simonal's "pilantragem", forging a musical identity that connected him to modernity, technology and the image of a global citizen. This album reflects a period of maturity and experimentation, in which the composer, with his natural talent for creating grooves and rhythms, imbues a new sound. The lyrics, in partnership with Paulo Sérgio Valle, adopt a critical character, addressing issues of consumer society and the military dictatorship, elevating the work to a level of artistic protest.
Context
The recording of this album occurred at a time when bossa nova was experiencing a decline in Brazil, prompting Marcos Valle to explore new musical landscapes. Deeply influenced by North American music and rock and roll since his youth, with references to songs such as Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-A-Lula", Valle enriched his work with these diverse strands. However, his image as a German descendant, blond and considered a "well-born representative of the Carioca elite", often distanced him from the "guerrilla" profile that dominated post-Tropicália MPB, affecting the reception of his provocations and criticisms during a period of strong repression by the military dictatorship.
Songs
The album features emblematic songs such as "Quarentão simpático" and "Pigmalião", the latter probably alluding to the telenovela. One of the highlights is the provocative "Ele e ela", in which Marcos Valle and his sister Ângela Valle insinuate a sexual relationship. The album cover functions as a complementary narrative element, displaying the artist in a tidy room on the front, and the same room empty and disarranged, with women's clothing scattered about, on the back cover, visualising the story suggested in the track.
Legacy
Despite the depth and critical character present in the lyrics and the album's visual conception itself, the dissenting aspect of Marcos Valle's work during this period did not receive due recognition. His subtle and ironic approach was, at times, misinterpreted or ignored by critics and audiences who expected more explicit engagement. Songs from that era, such as "Flamengo até morrer" (present on a later album, but representative of the same lyrical phase), were mistakenly labelled "adesistas", when in fact they expressed sophisticated irony towards social alienation, highlighting the complexity and incomprehension that surrounded the reception of his critical phase.
Tracks
Credits
Marcos Valle
Eduardo Lages
Jorge C. Castro
Paulo Sérgio Valle
Lincoln Olivetti
Fernando Souza
Ana Bezerra De Mello Devos, Eugen Ranevsky
Aécio Flávio, Fabiola, Jane Duboc, Leon Ware, Loma Pereira, Luna Messina, Marcio Lott, Miriam Peracchi, Regininha, Rosana, Viviane De Carvalho
Picolé
Ariovaldo Contesini, Peninha
Max Pierre
Leo Gandelman, Oberdan Magalhães, Zé Carlos
Serginho Do Trombone
Bidinho, Marcio Montarroyos
Adolpho Pissarenko, Nathercia Teixeira
Bernardo Bessler, Ernani Bordinhao, Jean Arnaud, Luiz Carlos Campos Marques, Michel Bessler, Nelson Abramento, Robert Arnaud, Stanislaw Smilgin, Walter Gomes De Souza
Cesar Barbosa, Mário Jorge, Nestor Lemos
Andy Mills, Moogie Canazio
Beto, Carlos Dantas, Jackson, João Ricardo, Julio Martins, Leco, Luiz Guilherme D'orey, Mário Jorge, Sergio Seabra
Andy Mills
Paulo Torres
Cosme De Oliveira
Tuninho De Paula
João Bosco
Podcasts
Podcast da Semana · Gama Revista
O verão é sinônimo de mais diversão, aventura, amor e festa para muita gente. É também para o músico e compositor Marcos Valle, que aos 81 anos comemora 60 anos de carreira com a autoria de algumas composições que são a cara da estação. "O melhor do verão é a possibilidade das pessoas poderem se divertir mais", ele conta ao Podcast da Semana da edição especial sobre o calor do verão. "Eu fico torc
Videos
ESTRELAR E EMPOLGANTE: OS 40 ANOS DE 'MARCOS VALLE' (1983) | ALBUM REVIEW
Som de Peso
Analyses
Records Revisited: Marcos Valle - Marcos Valles (1983) - HHV Mag
hhv-mag.com
Records Revisited: Marcos Valle - Marcos Valles (1983) Because some things are better left unchanged, »Marcos Valle« is still spinning on the turntable today as he did 40 years ago with his banana-cherry flavour.
S/T 1983 - Três Selos
tresselos.com
This album is a result of a period Marcos Valle spent in Los Angeles (USA), where he collaborated with soul legend Leon Ware. The record features production and arrangements by Lincoln Olivetti, who brilliantly combined his brass with Valle's swinging keyboards.
Marcos Valle tem álbum de 1983 reeditado na Europa em CD, cassete ... - G1
g1.globo.com
38 years after its original release, the album Marcos Valle returns to the European phonographic market in LP, CD, and cassette tape formats – scheduled for the second half of May.
Entrevista: Marcos Valle - "Por causa de 'Estrelar', em 1983, eu virei ...
popfantasma.com.br
Already re-released on CD on several occasions, Marcos Valle, the album, returns to the world of vinyl, via the British label Mr. Bongo. This time, it's released in an incredible edition, remastered by sound engineer Miles Showell at the legendary Abbey Road studio.
O álbum "Marcos Valle" (1983) é relançado com remasterização feita no ...
boomerangmusic.com.br
One of the greatest classics in the career of singer and songwriter Marcos Valle, the album "Marcos Valle" (1983), which features the big hit "Estrelar", has just been re-released on vinyl by the British label Mr Bongo.
