When in 1939 Carmen Miranda recorded one of her most famous renditions, “O Que É Que a Baiana Tem”, composed by the novice but already brilliant Dorival Caymmi (who also took part in the recording), both she and he (and his studio colleagues) considered the sound quality of the discs to be excellent.
After all, they were aware of the inferiority of sounds previously recorded using the mechanical process, and now they could boast of having their music recorded using the “modern” electrical process.
Exactly 70 years on, what would they say when they heard that same recording (but this time with all the faithful realism of what they heard in the studio) transferred digitally to our current CD? We’ll never know the answer.
But fortunately we can experience both sensations. In 2009, the musician Henrique Cazes, a master in dealing with digital technology, brought us this experience – far from being a joke or an outrage or a lack of respect for the original recording (as some very hasty critics have already claimed).
Biografia de Carmen Miranda
Journalist and writer Ruy Castro and the Biscoito Fino label were so taken with Cazes’ work that they decided to produce the CD “Carmen Miranda Hoje”, which features 11 more tracks of Carmen’s super-successes remixed by the same process. The result is impressive and admirable, and makes you want to listen to it over and over again.
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