Mestre Manelim, a guitarist from Minas Gerais who died four years ago, is revived in an original album with 17 new recordings

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Records from the album ‘Let the viola me take’ were captured between 2002 and 2012 and expose the musician’s relationship with the lundus and folkloric dances of the backlands of Minas Gerais. Mestre Manelim (1933 – 2020) has unpublished records compiled in the album ‘Deixa a viola me levada’, produced by Paulo Freire and Cacai Nunes Cacai Nunes / Divulgação Selo Sesc ♪ It was in Porto de Manga, a village located in the backlands of Urucuia, in the north from the state of Minas Gerais, that Manoel Neto de Oliveira came into the world in 1933. It was also there, in Porto de Manga, in 1977, that the São Paulo guitarist, composer and writer Paulo Freire met this guitarist known as Seu Manelim. Mestre Manelim, as shown on the cover of the album ‘Let the viola me take’, scheduled by Selo Sesc to be released on March 12th. “Living with Seu Manelim, I realized that learning the viola goes beyond the instrument. The sertão lives within the bulge of the viola”, wrote Paulo Freire in a text written for the booklet of the CD Rio Baixo (1995), Freire’s album. The album ‘Let the viola me take’ is the result of the efforts of Freire and guitarist and music researcher Cacai Nunes to preserve Manelim’s legacy. Freire and Nunes are jointly responsible for the artistic direction and musical production of this album, which features 17 new recordings by the guitarist who died four years ago, precisely on January 21, 2020. Of the 17 songs, 15 are written by Manoel Oliveira alone. The two exceptions are Toada de Reis and São Gonçalo, themes in the public domain. The 17 compositions on the album ‘Let the viola me take’ show Manelim beyond the guitar playing, also exposing the guitarist’s forays into lundus and the dance tracks of traditional folkloric manifestations from the backlands of Minas Gerais, such as folias and Dança de São Gonçalo. The first eight songs on the album – Let the viola take me, Pica pau, Lundu em rio livre, Cobra mais a onça, Grilo, Caminho da roça, Três things and Mazurca – were recorded by João Arruda in 2012 at the Venta Moinho studio, in Campinas, sp). The tracks Inhuma, Conselheiro, Toque do rio Baixo and Lundu da Taboca were recorded by Cacai Nunes in 2010 at Parque Olhos D’água, in Brasília (DF), for the project Um Brasil de viola. Finally, the songs Toada de Reis, Siriema, Papagaio, Enfuzado and São Gonçalo were recorded by Roberto Corrêa and Juliana Saenger, in 2002, in Urucuia (MG), the guitarist’s hometown, for the Tocadores project. Cover of the album ‘Let the viola take me’, by Mestre Manelim Disclosure

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