Jorge Ben: A Tábua De Esmeralda vinyl LP sealed new Brazil samba bossanova
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Jorge Ben: A Tábua De Esmeralda
Reissued in 2025 from the original 1974 edition
Condition: Sealed, presumed mint
Will be packed with care in a proper LP mailing box with stiff protection.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Any returns of sealed items must be sealed upon receipt by seller for full refund.
I have been buying and selling records and memorabilia for over 30 years. Experience counts!
See my other items, I do combine shipping.
Review excerpt:
A Tábua de Esmeralda’s sweetness, its sense of self-assurance, transcends language. While its songs don’t shy away from the complexities of Brazilian society in the early 1970s, it wears them — and, by extension, trouble generally — lightly, buoyed by the conviction that one man’s pleasure is sufficient to keep the ills of the world at bay, even if only for a moment.
The light of Ben’s happiness and delight illuminates everything here, radiating from his guitar’s nylon strings and the grinning sound of his voice, all channeled through the guitar, bass, and drums of Trio Mocotó and reflected back in Paulinho Tapajos’ sunny production. Plenty of records aim to give pleasure; A Tábua, for all its simplicity, is bright enough to blot out pain.
Throughout the album, Ben’s pleasure is contagious. He uses “Eu Vou Torcer”’s twilight lope as an excuse to list a few things he thinks are worth saluting: Argentine tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, the Flamengo football club, St. Thomas Aquinas, an unnamed friend who has a heart condition, the general fact of blue skies. The album-opening “Os Alquimistas Estão Chegando Os Alquimistas” heralds the imminent arrival of the alchemists the way “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” trumpets the titular group; “Ah!” you think, “a great party is about to get even better.”
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