红番吉他
cd编号：sacd 74321899002
一对住在巴西东北荒蛮丛林里的兄弟，无意中捡到一把破旧的吉他。经年累月的反复摸索之后，从不成音律到流泻出美妙的音符，无师自通的兄弟俩终于可以熟练地弹奏吉他，并获得进军里约音乐市场的机会，他们就是L os Indios Tabajaras。
1957年，这对兄弟在RCA唱片公司的录音间灌制了首张专辑“Sweet And Savage”，结果并未引起时常的回响。6年后，纽约的一位播音电台制作人，为了找寻适合的节目背景音乐，无意间却造就了此张专辑东山再起。纽约的听众纷纷来电询问此张专辑，于是R CA决定在当地重新发行“Maria Elena”这首单曲，结果一夕之间卖出5000张。此时唱片公司当机立断，将单曲及专辑作全国性的发行，数周后，销售成绩迅速排进排行榜前5 名，Los Indios Tabajaras因此奇迹式的重现乐坛。
这张1964年录制的《常驻我心》，在充满浪漫的拉丁风味中，Los Indios Tabajaras以独创的吉他演奏，诠释了多首印地安民谣和巴西乐曲，并融合巴赫，贝多芬，肖邦等大师的古典乐风，神气地呈现出沉静中蕴涵迷惑人心的风采。虽然这是一张完成于3 0年前的专辑，但它的音乐依然能够常驻我心，经得起时代的考验。
有一家老播放令人讨厌的草蜢乐队歌曲的百货公司，徐家汇的太平洋百货，整整两年中每天播放草蜢的《宝贝，我爱你！》（曾托人去询问，回答令人瞠目结舌，这首歌居然被作为了店歌），每次踏入这家百货公司，我的神经就得经受一次考验，但又每星期都得去一次，原因是店里的音像专柜好唱片出奇的多，上面的这张唱片就是在忍受《宝贝，我爱你！》后的收获。
This pair of brothers, members of the Tabajara tribe of northern Brazil, were one of the most unlikely successes of the space age pop era. Nearly 20 years after they first began recording professionally and in the midst of the twist craze, they had a Top 10 pop hit with their cover of "Maria Elena," a Mexican folk tune first popularized in the U.S. by Jimmy Dorsey.
RCA and their promoters have always drawn a veil of mystery around Los Indios Tabajaras, so it's tough to trace their early years accurately. Their literature claimed they discovered a guitar in the jungle near Ceara, Brazil, and, after making sure it wasn't going to explode like other firearms their tribesmen had found, began to examine it. Eventually, they both mastered the instrument and came to the attention of townspeople, one of whom took them to Rio de Janeiro to play.
Dressing up in ceremonial Indian costumes, the brothers perfected a nightclub act in which they sang and played Brazilian and Latin folk songs. They changed their names to Natalicio and Antenor Lima and began touring throughout South America. In 1943, RCA's Latin American arm signed them to a contract, but it wasn't until the late 1950s that they were released in the U.S., and their first album was on a minor label, Vox, rather than RCA.
In the early 1950s, they took a break from touring and returned to study, each with a different teacher. Natalicio focused on melody and Antenor worked on harmony. They also added a substantial classical repertoire to their act, including guitar pieces by Bach, Falla, and Albeniz.
Another tour followed, this time to Europe as well, and they recorded several more albums for RCA in Mexico. One of their singles, "Maria Elena," released in 1958, became a steady seller, and by early 1962, its success caught the eye of RCA's U.S. division. They issued the tune, and this lovely, gentle melody quickly carved a solid niche in the U.S. pop charts. It ended up spending 14 weeks in the U.S. Top 10 and 17 weeks in the U.K. charts, and the subsequent album placed in the Top 10 album chart as well. Within a year, the brothers followed with another single, "Always in My Heart," but the novelty had worn off and it barely dented the Top 100.
Chet Atkins was particularly impressed by the brothers' guitar work, and he invited them to Nashville, where they recorded an instrumental album with Atkins and pianist Floyd Cramer, and--in one of the oddest releases of the countrypolitan era--one with singer Don Gibson ("Oh, Lonesome Me").
RCA--both the U.S. and Latin American divisions--continued to record them well into the 1980s, and the brother's mellow guitar style proved a big influence on a new generation of guitarists such as Rick Vito.
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