Pedrinho Sampaio - Um Grito De Guerra (Vinyl LP) 

RPA 0001, MAR 069

 The LP “Um Grito de Guerra” cover invites us to enter Pedrinho's ship and embark on a series of sounds that reveal Amazonian jazz harmonies, groovy guitars, a funky swing, and progressive keyboard attacks. However, the musical journey is not unambiguous in its style, unveiling a walk over the treetops beyond the “Southern seas”. So, we must get lost in the immensity before even commanding words defining this sound.
From his cabin, Pedrinho controls his keyboards (an instrument that became so commonplace in the following decades), extracting all his creative power and masterfully conducting a band that swells the musical stew, bringing a new song that was part of the creative process of the eponymous show.
Present in a historical time that went through the industrial economic growth that generated a large national debt, the “Brazilian miracle”, followed by the process of disorderly development of the metropolises, including Manaus, which had as one of the swelling factors the urban exodus due to the Zona Franca. This same Free Zone, today so threatened, filled the city with opportunities and became, until the 1990s, a center for the generation and distribution of technology for the Manaus population. This technology, also sound, came with the offer of musical instruments such as the various keyboards, pianos and state-of-the-art synthesisers used in this recording, some of which are rare today.

“Um Grito de Guerra is an album released on vinyl in 1979 and is currently disputed by collectors worldwide. 

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A1. Pensando em Pensar... 0:38
A2. No Ar...Um Grito de Guerra! 5:25
A3. Noções de Piano-Harp  4:06
A4. Rio Negro  3:28
A5. Miragem  3:13
B1. Todas as Crianças da Terra 3:13
B2. Manaus  3:47
B3. A Fonte  4:27
B4. Correnteza  3:12
B5. Transamazônica  3:21