Ave Sangria aka Bleeding Bird (Brazil 1974)

Ave Sangria - S/T
Brazil 1974

This is one of my favorite Brazilian Albums. Ave Sangria where from the Northeast Brazilian scene of the early 70s sharing the stage with other legends like Lula Cortez and Ronnie Von. I couldn't find much english information but below is slightly understandable translation of a Portuguese article on the group,

They used lipstick, kissed themselves in the mouth in full stage, made a dirty music, with letters speaking of pirates, young women deceased in the rutting. And was very quaint; "chickens", according to ones, and a threat to the young maidens of the city, as others. These "bad elements" they were part of the Ave Sangria, former-Tamarineira Village, whom Recife band of 1974 scandalized, in the same way that Rolling Stone of the London ten years before. With effect, it she was known as the northeast Stones. "This age all part of the legend around the Sangria Bird" - it explains, 25 years later, Rafles, the minister of the information of the group. "The lipstick was mertiolate, that people used to shock. I do not know of where this history of kiss in the mouth appeared, the only thing different in the group was the hair and clothes." Rafles for return of 68, was "pirado" of call of Recife. Between its maluquices it is to send, for the post office, one strengthened established one, in legitimate Colomy paper, for Paul McCartney. Months later, it received the reply from the Beatle: an autographed photo the gratefulness. Who was considered the Rafles name Tamarineira Village, when the group took a definitive form, with the entrance of the singer and songwriter Marco Polo. This happened after the I Experimental Fair of Music of New Farm. Until then, without defined name, Almir Oliveira, Martins Squid, Disraeli, Bira, Aparicio My Love (sic), Rafles, Tadeu, and Ivson Wanderley was only the band of support of Laílson, today cartunista of the DP. Marco Polo, an academic of former-Right, was integrant precocious 45 of recifenses generation of poets. With 16 years, he dared to show himself to its poems and the Aryan Suassuna Cesar Loyal to it. He was approved by the two and he launched its first book in 66. In 69, he initiated himself in the journalism, the reporter of the Daily one of the Night. Soon he gained world. In 70, he worked for some time in the Periodical of the Afternoon, in Sao Paulo, but soon he turned hippie, the craftsman working in the lost temper square General Osório, in Ipanema. The first show as Tamarineira Village was the Rejection of the Landscape, after the festival of New Farm. Two others had come more concerts, Body in Flames and Concert Delinquent. From then on the band hoarded a faithful public. Gypsies The change of the name happened when the group passed to be invited for presentations in other States. The musicians had gotten tired themselves to explain the meaning of Tamarineira Village. The Bird Angria, according to Marco Polo, was the suggestion of amalucada Roma, that had found in the interior of the Paraiba: "It liked our music and made an improvised poem, mentioning it to the birds we bleedings. We find legal. The bleeding, for strong, sanguine, the violent northeast side. The bird, for the poetical side, symbol of the freedom of our work. At the time, the sound of the Violated Quintet was one of the sensations of the MPB. It did not delay recorders to order them to overseers to Recife in search of new quintet. The RCA was one of them. The Ave Sangria was investigated and refused the proposal (the RCA contracted the Wood Band and Rope). The record would come with the indication of the band, for the entrepreneur of the New Bahians, to the Continental one, the first recorder to bet in the future of the national rock. Anticipating the gozação for being northeasterns, the integrant ones of the band had arrived in the Hawaii studio, in the Avenue Brazil, River, all of fossil hunter in the hand: "We say it to have personal care, people came because of the land of Lampeão," recalls Almir Oliveira. He was one of the few moments of relaxation of the band. With exception of Marco Polo, none of the integrant ones knew the River and they had never entered in a writing studio. Of fossil hunter in the hand the aggravation, who produced the record was little the experienced John Antonucci. Former of the Young Guard ( the Vips formed the pair, with the Ronaldo brother), Antonucci was lost with the sound that had in hands, and it put it to lose: "It did not understand nothing of that mixture of rock music and people who northeastern made, and left The sessions to roll. The devil is that people also did not have the experience of lesser studio, "Pablo counts to the guitarist Rafael. Result: the record finished full of acoustic timbres. Bleeding The Bird, involuntarily, turned a species Violated Quintet udigrudi. Adulterated And was not only the sound. The recorder did not topou to pay for the art of the layer and placed in its place a semblance of the original drawing, signed for Laílson. The record, exactly divulged little, obtained relative success in the Southeast, and sold sufficiently in some States northeast. One of musics that had made more success, and controversy, it was samba-Waldir Its cries. "Its Mr. Waldir / Hurt my heart To make this with me, its Waldir / This does not become not… I want to be its favourite toy whistle Its Its satin shirt… "At a time where the androgyny became a source of pop music. There are with it gliter rock of David Bowie, Gary Glitter and Roxy Music with Alice Cooper, here with the one rebolado of Dry & Wet, Its Waldir was considered by the pernambucanos moralists as a vindication to the homosexuality, when it did not pass of the trick of the irreverent of the Ave Sangria. Its Waldir for little does not turn myth. Some said that he was one gentleman who liveed in Olinda, for which the vocalist of the Bird is Bleeding gotten passionate. Others, that if homonym dealt with a journalist. At last, one gave credit such that the Waldir was a personage of meat and bone. Marco Polo clarifies the history of the personage "I made Its Waldir, in the River, before entering in the band. It was ordered by Marília Pear for the track of the part of the Life Escrachada Baby Stomponato, of Bráulio Pedroso, that finished not using music to advantage. "The Department of Censorship of the Federal Policy did not take faith in this version. It forbade the LP and it determined collect in all its domestic territory. The prohibition stirred up, according to Bird integrant of the Bleeding, columnist for the social today one of the Daily one of Pernambuco, Joao Alberto: "It touched music in the TV program that it presented and commented that he found a nonsense, that the music with a letter of those could not touch freely in radios, "Rafles denounces. Almir Oliveira says that it remembers the commentaries of the journalist in the television:" But I do not attribute it directly. If it was not, would have been another person, music was exactly strong for time ", he brightens up. The prohibition, according to commentaries of the time, it had a general, stimulated for the indignation of the wife, who did not simpatizou with the declaration of love its Waldir. The record was relaunched without the cursed band, but the interest of the media for the group already had passed there. The Globe, for example, gave up to propagate the clip made for the Fantastic one, with Georgia music the Carniceira. The group lost the puncture: "People were a flock of poor faces, some already with children, the always short dollar. In the squeeze, we arrive until recording for the TV vignettes Periodical (one of them for the program Jorge Chau), "recalls Marco Polo. In December of 1974, the Ave Sangria seemed to want to Take flight again. The group made one of its better presentations, with the show Perfumes & Baratchos. The public who was to the Saint Elizabeth not wise person, but had the privilege to attend it sings of swan of the Ave Sangria. It was the last show and the end of the band.


Here's a insane video from 1975 of Ave Sangria backing up tripped brazilian musician/artist Alceu Valença! Amazing!

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