Chega de Saudade
I’m going to put this video here although I know no one else will listen to it. Just because it saves me the trouble of going to Youtube to play it over and over again.
Incidentally, this song by Antonio Carlos “Tom” Jobim (the pianist in the video) and Vinicius de Moraes is considered to be the first bossa nova recording ever made. Tom Jobim, together with João Gilberto (the guitarist and vocalist in the video), was one of the creators of the bossa nova style, a style evolved from samba and whose name means “new trend”. Jobim, Gilberto, Gilberto’s then wife Astrud Gilberto and jazz saxophonist Stan Getz then went on to record the veryveryvery awesome Getz/Gilberto, which has since come to be regarded as the definitive bossa nova album of all time. The title of this song directly translates to “enough homesickness” or “enough longing”. There’s a literal translation of the lyrics into English on the web somewhere and it sounds a bit corny – “Cause there are fewer fish swimming in the sea Than the little kisses I shall give her on her mouth” … er? But I’m sure in the original Portuguese meaning it is really poetic and beautiful, haha.
Give it a listen, you will like it! I could be biased but I fail to see how anyone could not like music as accessible and pleasant to the ears as bossa nova!!
On another note- I will stop posting video after video and start writing properly again after my exams, hopefully!
This is my favorite song! Isn’t it gorgeous? I like bossa nova, but this one’s the BEST. I just clicked on this blog incidentally while searching the web for a good English translation, although I’m sure none could be as pretty as the Portuguese. I understand the song more or less though from knowing Spanish. You should check out my favorite version of it done by Rosa Passos accompanied by Yo-Yo Ma on Ma’s CD called Obrigado Brazil.
I love it so much……..i have many versions of that song, and each one makes me so happy and melanholic at the same time…love that feeling.
Bossa nova 4ever!!