Pages 468 and 1009/10 of the "Dicionário Houassis Ilustrado de Música Popular Brasileira" contains, respectively, a summary musical biography and a short discography of Arnoldo. Copyrighted by Instituto Antônio Houassis and Instituto Cultural Cravo Albin, under the authorship and supervision of the well known Brazilian musicologist Ricardo Cravo Albin, the Dictionary is unique for its comprehensive catalogue and careful recount of the history of the most significant composers who dedicated their talent to the MPB. Published in 2006 by Editora Paracatu, RJ, the dictionary is also very interesting for having its pages decorated by a large collection of old newspaper and magazine charges on diverse MPB topics, designed by famous Brazilian comics designers.
Yoli Planaguma`s new CD "Na Telha" started to be marketed on December 2007. It includes "Segredos", a composition with lyrics by Arnoldo and music by Mauto Marcondes. , Yoli is a most talented international singer, from Porto Alegre, Brazil, currently on a musical tour in Grecia. Yoli won the Sharp Music Award for Best Brazilian Record some years ago, and in recent years has lived and performed in Spain and Portugal. Since she returned to her native Rio Grande do Sul to record the new album, she has made shows in several show houses in Porto Alegre, and traveled on tour to the nearby cities nad states.
Greenwich Village, NY, March/April 2007, Arnoldo and Dom Salvador recorded a unique series of piano and voice tracks of their latest compositions. Intended just as a memento of their most recent musical creations, the recordings resulted in such a good sound and quality that Dom Salvador and Arnoldo are currently considering what to do with them. Eventually, Arnoldo will show a sample of those tracks in this site.
Felipe Radicetti proceeds in re-recording tracks for his new album "Sagrado Profano". Accoustic rather than electronic instrumentation and effects prevail in the new arrangements. The album will have two new lyrics by Arnoldo: "Diadema" and "Nieblas", both written for Radicetti's musics. "Nieblas" has lyrics written in Spanish at the request of Radicetti, who lived for some time in Spain. "Diadema" was beautifully re-recorded on January 2008, in Belo Horizonte by singer Ladston do Nascimento for Radicetti's new album.
"Arnoldo Medeiros' Spotlight Show" and interview on U.S. radio was broadcasted on December 29, 2006, from 6:00 to 7:00 PM, by WZBC 90.3 Fm Boston, with an excellent feedback from the U.S. public. The show was organized by Patrick Rands, an intellectually challenging radio programmer, highly knowledgeable of international music and a very serious researcher of contemporary music trends. Patrick is responsible for the musically intriguing radio show Abstract Terrain, brodcasted by WZBC every Tuesday night, from 7:00 to 10 PM. In the recent past he has organized individual spotlight shows on Vinicius de Moraes, Chico Buarque de Hollanda, Quarteto em Cy, Nara Leão, Agustin Pereyra Lucena, and other major names of the Latin American music. One of the highlights of Arnoldo's show was the first time broadcasting of the music "The Blast" (see the "Poetry" section of this site) composed by by Felipe Radicetti with lyrics in Engl;ish written by Arnoldo.
Arnoldo and Dom Salvador are now developing a new set of compositions based on traditional Brazilian music genders, such as the "chorinho", but with a more sophisticated and contemporaneous melodic and harmonic finishing. A good part of these new compositions have been recently recorded instrumental by the famous New York based group Choro Ensemble for release in 2007.
Following the recent success of the remastered release of Arnoldo's musics and some tracks from his solo album O Homem, O Poeta in Japan, Arnoldo is proud to know that his music has now reached the Republic of South Korea with the release, on Februray 2006, of the compilation album Miracle World Music, Volume II, which, in additional several beautiful international songs, contains "Eequeça" co-written and interpreted by Arnoldo. This is the second CD recently marketed by BMG with that song. The first was CD Seleção: Essencia Brasileira Vol I & II featuring Arnoldo singing Esqueça, Flamengo 2x1 and Susana. Flamengo 2x1 continues to be listed as one of the overall top tracks played by www.last.fm in Japan. We are most appreciative and thankful for the warm and kind reception the Japanese public has been giving to Arnoldo`s music.
Arnoldo wishes to thanks the well known Japanese DJs Keita Takagi, Toru Hashimoto, Masanori Koyama and Yo Iwasava for the broad promotion and publicity given to Arnoldo's music in Japan. In addition to their authoring of several excellent album compilations of good international music, these DJs are highly knowledgeable of the Braziian music repertoire. Takagi and Masonari are authors of the famous Japanese guide to Brazilian music Musica LocoMundo, and Toru Hashimoto has been responsible for the worldwide successful album series Café Après-Midi. These DJs are part of the famous Japanese group Musicaäanossa. Iwasawa, on the other hand, has authored very interesting compilation albuns released by the Japanese department store chain Beams and Toshiba-Emi, including the series Super Flavors, which contain some of Arnoldo´s compositions.
Rosa Passos new CD album Rosa for jazz label Telarc features Edredon de Seda", a composition by Rosa with Arnoldo's lyrics. The new CD promises to follow the successful path of the CD Amorosa, which Rosa recorded in 2005 for Sony Classics. That album includes Essa é Pro João, also a composition by Rosa and Arnoldo. Since the first semester of 2006, Rosa has been performing and promoting her CDs in major U.S. cities of the east and west coasts, as well as in various European countries, including Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Italy. Her solo show at the Carnegie Hall, New York, on February 2006 received excellent reviews of the press and is considered a benchmark on her career.
Felipe Radicetti decided to re-do the recording sessions for his new album "Sagrado Profano" in order to adopt an entirely new arrangement approach. Accoustic rather than electronic instrumentation and effects shall prevail in the new arrangements. The album will have two new lyrics by Arnoldo: "Diadema" and "Nieblas", both written for Radicetti's musics. "Nieblas" has lyrics written in Spanish at Radicetti's request.. In the past, Radicetti has lived for some time in Spain, and both Arnoldo and Felipe are fluent in Spanish;
Selma Reis, famous singer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is recording a new CD in which she intednds to include "Os Pelicanos" composed by Mauro Marcondes and Arnoldo.
In Lyon, France, Celio Mattos has finshed recording his new solo album. Included is "A Cultura Nacional", a beautiful and joyfull composition in the Brazilian gender "chorinho", for whcih Arnolod has written the lyrics;
"Trip To Brazil", Volume IV, inlcudes "Shriley Sexy", interpreted by Claudette Soares with lyrics by Arnoldo and music by Fred Falcao. This is one of Arnoldo's most recorded compositions. A French version of that music was recorded by the French singer Christianne Legrand with the title "HMS and Ciné Roman", now included in the re-issue of Christianne's album "Smiles and Tears" recently published in Japan by Universal;
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CD: Latin The Mood: Nordic Samba was launched in January 26, 2005, featuring Johan Hakanson on alto and soprano saxophone, Homero Alvarez on accustic and electric guitars, Marcus Linfeldt on bass and Peter Bylin on drums and percussion, with the special guest vocalist Giselle Martine. It features Mais Nato Que O Donato with lyrics by Arnoldo Medeiros, and muisc by Marcus Linfeldt.
Movie: Movie 1972, Brazil features Guanabara by Dom Salvador and Arnoldo Medeiros.
Hello to partner Mauro Marcondes (Washigton, DC), I love all our new compositions, among which "Burning Lights", "Pérola", "Segredos" and "Pelicanos";
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