Õ Blésq Blom
album by Titãs
Õ Blésq Blom is the fifth studio album by Brazilian rock band Titãs.
Background
During the previous album's (Go Back) tour, in Recife's leg, Titãs met at the Boa Viagem Beach a couple of repentismo musicians, Mauro and Quitéria (aged 68 and 57, respectively). After listening to them and appreciating their performance, they decided to record them right there, using a recorder that vocalist Paulo Miklos provided. The recorded song was used as the opening and ending tracks of the album and of its subsequent tour and was already implemented during the Go Back tour.
Mauro was a former stevedore at Recife Port and, being constantly exposed to foreigners, ended up learning several words in different languages. With the help of his wife, who started to guide him after he went blind in 1982, he would walk around the beach singing songs written in several languages at once - even though he wouldn't know the words' actual meanings - for some change, marking the tempo with an improvised caxixi made of cloth, cardboard and lead. For their participation in the album, they received the sum of NCzS 6,000 (they would normally make between NCzS 40 and NCzS 100 a day with their public presentations). Mauro had never heard his own recorded voice before.
There were plans to invite the duo to their tour, but it wasn't possible due to production limitations. At the tour's time, vocalist/saxophonist Paulo Miklos and guitarist Marcelo Fromer announced they planned to produce an album by Mauro and Quitéria via WEA.
Recording
Õ Blésq Blom was recorded between July and September 1989.
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