Chico César and Zeca Baleiro team up on an original album set between the aridity of the backlands and the heat of the urban summer

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Singers harmonize diverse influences in the 11 partnerships of the first duo album, ‘Ao arrepio da lei’, and debut in Curitiba on Friday, the 8th, the show of the tour that will tour Brazil throughout the year. Zeca Baleiro (left) and Chico César release the album ‘Ao arrepio da lei’ with 11 songs that expand the partnership started by the composers in 1995 Vange Milliet / Disclosure Cover of the album ‘Ao arrepio da lei’, by Chico César and Zeca Baleiro Vange Milliet with graphic art by Andrea Pedro Album review Title: Ao arrepio da lei Artists: Chico César and Zeca Baleiro Edition: Saravá Discos / Chita Discos Rating: ★ ★ ★ 1/2 ♪ Two years after announcing their first album with the double single Lovers + Respira (2021), Chico César finally release the album, titled Ao arrepio da lei and put into rotation on audio players on Friday, March 1st. With seven new songs among the 11 songs that make up the entirely original repertoire, the album Ao arrepio da lei expands the partnership presented 29 years ago with the recording of Pajelança on the first album by São Paulo singer-songwriter Vange Milliet, released in 1995. Artist who worked with Chico César at the beginning of their careers in São Paulo (SP), in 1988, when she was a photographer and he was still debating between journalism and music, Milliet signed the album cover photo and the images in the promotional material for the album. album recorded with musical production by guitarist Swami Jr. Friends since 1991, the year in which Baleiro arrived in São Paulo (SP), Chico César from Paraíba and his colleague from Maranhão come together on this album that moves between the aridity of the northeastern backlands and the heat of the urban summer, with an emphasis on the sounds of the northeastern nation and the harmonization of influences ranging from Luiz Gonzaga’s baião (1912 – 1989) to the sentimentalism of Brazilian popular song, including Jovem Guarda, Italian music, reggae and national soul, among other musical references. If in Mocó the artists follow the severe route of refugees from a hinterland heated by the harshness of Arab sounds, Lovers – a track recorded with musical production by Érico Theobaldo – airs the record by evoking the romantic atmosphere of reggae propagated at dances in Maranhão, state of Brazil known as the “Brazilian Jamaica”. A highlight of the original vintage, the title song Ao arrepio da lei crosses country with folk in the western and northeastern accent of this track that sounds like the artists’ autobiographical letter of intent when opening the album. Next, the song Bardo continues dryly and sharpens the blade of the knife with verses like “I keep breathing / Without even knowing when or where there is peace / My body marches / And I follow”. Between the melancholy of Narcisos (an introspective ballad that oozes poetry in verses like “I saw naked violets / Daffodils dancing / I saw through the moons / The sky crying”) and the witty of Dislike (a joke that has the verve of Baleiro in verses about the blockages of love relationships on social media), Chico César and Zeca Baleiro present Neon (a less brilliant song in the album and the composers’ works), speed up the beat to match the agile rhythm of ska in Beije-me Antes – in taken from the winds orchestrated by trombonist Mestre Tiquinho – and forays into Brazilian soul in Verão, a track produced and mixed by Alexandre Fontanetti. The introduction of Verão refers to Hyldon’s soul – an assumed reference to Chico César and Zeca Baleiro in the composition – while the chorus reverberates arrangements from Cassiano’s records (1943 – 2021) with the voices of the choir and the brass section orchestrated by the clarinetist and saxophonist Nailor Azevedo, known as Proveta. It is worth remembering that Verão and Beije-me Antes are tracks already presented in the double single released by the artists in December 2022. Recorded little by little and completed in the second half of 2023, the album Ao arrepio da lei generates a tour of Brazil that debuts in Curitiba ( PR) on Friday, March 8, followed by cities such as Florianópolis (SC), Recife (PE), Brasília (DF), Porto Alegre (RS), São Paulo (SP), Belo Horizonte (MG) and Rio de Janeiro – RJ). “I want to see everyone rebel / If they go back to beauty, roll / Everything is missing and people want to dance”, warn Chico César and Zeca Baleiro in verses of the final track, Aglomerar. As the album Ao arrepio da lei shows, the pajelança that united the works of Chico César and Zeca Baleiro in 1995 still has an effect. Zeca Baleiro (on the left) and Chico César debut the tour for the album ‘Ao arrepio da lei’ in Curitiba ( PR) next Friday, March 8 Vange Milliet / Disclosure

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