Lo-fi EP 'Island in the Moon'; música de Otacílio Melgaço | letra de W. Wordsworth

Otacílio Melgaço - composição, arranjo, voz, efeitos

Pietrus Oiticica - violão

{participação especial - Zycluz Quartett}

[gravação ao vivo, realizada em Ottawa|Canadá]

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She was a Phantom of delight 
When first she gleamed upon my sight; 
A lovely Apparition, sent 
To be a moment's ornament; 
Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; 
Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; 
But all things else about her drawn 
From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; 
A dancing Shape, an Image gay, 
To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. 
I saw her upon nearer view, 
A Spirit, yet a Woman too! 
Her household motions light and free, 
And steps of virgin-liberty; 
A countenance in which did meet 
Sweet records, promises as sweet; 
A Creature not too bright or good 
For human nature's daily food; 
For transient sorrows, simple wiles, 
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 
And now I see with eye serene 
The very pulse of the machine; 
A Being breathing thoughtful breath, 
A Traveller between life and death; 
The reason firm, the temperate will, 
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; 
A perfect Woman, nobly planned, 
To warn, to comfort, and command; 
And yet a Spirit still, and bright 
With something of angelic light.



She Was A Phantom Of Delight (Otacílio Melgaço/W. Wordsworth)

Lo-fi EP 'Island in the Moon'; música de Otacílio Melgaço | letra de E.S.Millay

Otacílio Melgaço - composição, arranjo, contrabaixo acústico, piano, efeitos

Indra d'Es - voz

Pietrus Oiticica - violão

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She is neither pink nor pale,
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,
And she never will be all mine;
And her mouth on a valentine.
She has more hair than she needs;
And her voice is a string of colored beads,
In the sun 'tis a woe to me!
Or steps leading into the sea.
She loves me all that she can, 
But she was not made for any man, 
And her ways to my ways resign; 
And she never will be all mine.

(the inner order of the stanzas 
was altered by the composer)



Witch Wife (Otacílio Melgaço/E.S.Millay)

Lo-fi EP 'Island in the Moon'; música de Otacílio Melgaço

Otacílio Melgaço - composição, arranjo, instrumentos, voz

{participação especial - Zycluz Quartett}

{{Beethoven - incidental}}

['Prelude' = BdesQ|Ouvertüre]

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Prelude (Otacílio Melgaço)

Lo-fi EP These Boots Are Made For Divin' (Bootlegs); 
Música: Otacílio Melgaço / Poema: Edgar Allan Poe

Otacílio Melgaço - composição, arranjo, instrumentos, voz
(Elementos superpostos foram acrescidos em pós-produção)
Stella de Sanctis - voz (Participação Especial)

Canção dedicada a Nick Drake

"Thy soul shall find itself alone
‘Mid dark thoughts of the gray tomb-stone –
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy:

Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness – for then
The spirits of the dead who stood
In life before thee, are again
In death around thee – and their will
Shall overshadow thee: be still.

The night – tho’clear – shall frown – 
And the stars shall look not down,
From their high thrones in the heaven,
With light like Hope to mortals given – 
But their red orbs, without beam,
To thy weariness shall seem
As a burning and a fever
Which would cling to thee for ever."

OBS.: Essa versão registra um fragmento da criação melgaciana. Originalmente folk, a canção abarca todo o poema de Poe. Será gravada no primeiro disco cheio (de estúdio) da banda Baal des Quat´z´arts >> "BaalHaus".

Spirits Of The Dead (Melgaço - Poe) These Boots Are Made For Divin' - EP

Lo-fi EP These Boots Are Made For Divin' (Bootlegs); 
Música: Otacílio Melgaço / Poema: William Blake

Otacílio Melgaço - composição, arranjo, instrumentos, voz. (Elementos superpostos foram acrescidos em pós-produção)

Canção dedicada originalmente a Iggy Pop (& colateralmente a Nick Cave)

"In futurity I prophetic see, 
That the earth from sleep 
(Grave the sentence deep)
Shall arise and seek 
For her maker meek
And the desert wild 
Become a garden mild.
In the southern clime, 
Where the summers prime, 
Never fades away; 
Lovely Lyca lay.
Seven summers old 
Lovely Lyca told.
She had wanderd long, 
hearing wild birds song.
Sweet sleep come to me 
Underneath this tree; 
Do father, mother weep. 
‘Where can Lyca sleep’.
Lost in desert wild 
Is your little child.
How can Lyca sleep, 
If her mother weep.
If her heart does ake, 
Then let Lyca wake;
If my mother sleep, 
Lyca shall not weep.
Frowning frowning night, 
O’er this desert bright, 
Let thy moon arise, 
While I close my eyes.
Sleeping Lyca lay; 
While the beasts of prey, 
Come from caverns deep, 
View’d the maid asleep
The kingly lion stood 
and the virgin view’d, 
Then he gambold round 
O’er the hallowd ground:
Leopards, tygers play, 
Round her as she lay; 
While the lion old, 
Bow’d his mane of gold.
And her bosom lick, 
And upon her neck,
From his eyes of flame, 
Ruby tears there came;
While the lionessa, 
Loos’d her slender dress, 
And naked they convey’d 
To caves the sleeping maid."

The Little Girl Lost (Melgaço - Blake) These Boots Are Made For Divin' - EP

Lo-fi EP These Boots Are Made For Divin' (Bootlegs); 
Música: Otacílio Melgaço / Poema: William Blake [Chorus: O.M.]

Otacílio Melgaço - composição, arranjo, instrumentos, voz
(Elementos superpostos foram acrescidos em pós-produção)

Canção dedicada a David Bowie

“He’s another hero from empty space,
He’s another hero like the rest of my race.

Why was I born with a different face
Why was I not born like the rest of my race
When I look each one stars! 
When I speak I offend
Then I’m silent & passive 
& lose every Friend

Then my verse I dishonour. 
My pictures despise
My person degrade & my temper chastise
And the pen is my terror. 
The pencil my shame
All my talents I bury, and dead is my Fame

I am either too low or highly prized
When Elate I am Envy’d, 
When Meek I’m despis’d"

Another Hero Or To Thomas Butts (Melgaço - Blake) These Boots Are Made For Divin' - EP

Lo-fi EP These Boots Are Made For Divin' (Bootlegs);

Otacílio Melgaço - composição, arranjo, instrumentos, voz

Dedicada a Liz Fraser

Get On The Fairy Boots [Prelude] (Melgaço) These Boots Are Made For Divin' - EP

"It´s with priceless pleasure that we accept the invitation to star, alongside other twenty-three prominent names of the sonic-national scene, at the tenth and ultimate collectanea of cultural producer, curator, DJ and musical researcher carioca Chico Dub: 'Hy Brazil '(experimental advanced avant-garde new music from Brazil).

Officially launched today, on April 28, 2016, we´re represented by the track ´High Brasil', a Melgacian Suite of 8 minutes long exclusively engendered for such paroxyst commemorative work, one of the most important fronts of disseminating electronic art of our country abroad.

Our best regards to Mr. Dub as well as all those who contributed and contribute to the sui generis trajectory of 4'Arts: Pietrus Oiticica, Indra d'Es, Stella de Sanctis, Mademoiselle D.S., &TC.

Feriuntque summos fulmina montes." (Otacílio Melgaço & Baal des Quat'z'arts)

"É com inestimável prazer que aceitamos o convite para protagonizar, ao lado de outros vinte e três nomes de destaque do cenário sônico-nacional, a décima e culminante coletânea do produtor cultural, curador, DJ e pesquisador musical carioca Chico Dub: ´Hy Brazil´.

Lançada oficialmente hoje, a 28 de Abril de 2016, dela participamos com a faixa ´High Brasil´, uma Melgaciana Suíte de 8 minutos de duração engendrada exclusivamente para tal marco comemorativo e consagrador de um dos mais relevantes fronts de divulgação da arte eletrônica de nosso país no estrangeiro.

Amplexos em Mr. Dub assim como em todos os que contribuíram e contribuem para a trajetória sui generis dos 
4´Arts: Pietrus Oiticica, Indra d´Es, Stella de Sanctis, Mademoiselle D.S., &tc.

Feriuntque summos fulmina montes." (Otacílio Melgaço & Baal des Quat´z´arts)

>> http://chicodub.bandcamp.com/track/otac-lio-melga-o-high-brasil-feat-baal-des-quat-z-arts <<

High Brasil (Otacílio Melgaço feat. Baal des Quat´z´arts; Hy Brazil Vol 10 Single)

B-side | Lo-fi Live; música de Otacílio Melgaço | poema de Goethe 

Otacílio Melgaço - composição, arranjo, guitarra, voz, pré-gravados, efeitos 

Indra d'Es - clarineta 

Pietrus Oiticica - violão, carrilhão 

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São recitados os seguintes fragmentos do poema: 

"Wir hören’s oft und glauben’s wohl am Ende: 
Das Menschensherz sei ewig unergründlich, 
Und wie man auch sich hin und wider wende, 
So sei der Christe wie der Heide sündlich. 
Das Beste bleibt, wir geben uns die Hände 
Und nehmens mit der Lehre nicht empfindlich; 
Denn zeigt sich auch ein Dämon, uns versuchend, 
So waltet was, gerettet ist die Tugend. 

Da quoll dein Herz, da quollen deine Sinnen, 
So dass der ganze Mensch entzückt sich regte. 
Zum raschen Tanze trugst du sie von hinnen, 
Die kaum der Arm und shon der Busen hegte, 
Als wolltest du dir selbst sie abgewinnen: 
Vervielfacht war, was sich für sir bewegte: 
Verstand und Witz und alle Lebensgeister 
Und rascher als die andern jener Meister. 

Doch Meister Iste hat nun seine Grillen 
Und lässt sich nicht befehlen, noch verachten, 
Auf einmal ist er da, und ganz im stillen 
Erhebt er sich zu allen seinen Prachten; 
So steht es nun dem Wandrer ganz zu Willen, 
Nicht lechzend mehr am Quell zu übernachten. 
Er neight sich hin, er wiee die Schläferin küssen, 
Allein er stockt, er fühlt sich weggerissen."

B-side > Das Tagebuch [Lo-fi Live] (Otacílio Melgaço/Goethe)

A-side | Lo-fi Live; música de Otacílio Melgaço | letra de E.S.Millay

Otacílio Melgaço - composição, arranjo, violão, voz, efeitos

Indra d'Es - voz

Pietrus Oiticica - violão

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She is neither pink nor pale, 
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, 
And she never will be all mine; 
And her mouth on a valentine. 
She has more hair than she needs; 
And her voice is a string of colored beads, 
In the sun 'tis a woe to me! 
Or steps leading into the sea. 
She loves me all that she can, 
But she was not made for any man, 
And her ways to my ways resign; 
And she never will be all mine.

(the inner order of the stanzas 
was altered by the composer)

A-side > Witch Wife [Lo-fi Live] (Otacílio Melgaço/E.S.Millay)

BAAL DES QUAT'Z'ARTS 
IS A BRAZILIAN CROSSOVER BAND UNDER MUSICAL DIRECTION BY OTACÍLIO MELGAÇO 

contact: baaldes4arts@gmail.com

"S o u n d s A n d 
(S u b d i) V i s i o n s"

Baal des Quat'z'arts is a resonant kaleidoscope. Rarely a multi-artist gets to accomplish such a cubist music! Sounds are projected of unexpected retreats, everything becomes a house of mirrors. In the creations of the band - the poet's words are justified in a deafening way, deafening transcendence originating from Joy and (the axiom becomes unfailing): 'Beauty is' really 'a Joy forever!' 
(Caio Campbell; Anglo-Brazilian semiologist and musician) 

"T h e S k e t c h O f A n 
I m p e r t i n e n t P r o l o g u e"

'I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.' The Langston's words echo in my mind when I try to describe Baal des Quat'z'arts and their creations ... Pristine footprints towards unimaginable places ... Baal is the name of a controversial divinity ... Besides noises, silences, musical notes; O.M. grafts paradoxes, symbolisms and palimpsests in the womb of their music ... If the divinity (that inspired a part of the band name) could come in this context, maybe would - plathian - alert us: 'I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike I am not cruel, only truthful — The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.' Maybe passing through the compasses and over the steel points will go nothing except Baal des Quat'z'arts and Universe Drunks and To-morrow ...' 
(O.K., artist and producer) 


"A p p e n d i x & 
M e l t i n g P o t" 

A'capella, acousmatic/tapemusic, acoustic, bluegrass, bossa nova, classic rock, classical, club, concrete, down-tempo, drum & bass, dub, electroacoustic, emo, flamenco, folk, folk rock, fusion, garage, glam, gothic, industrial, jazz, lounge, minimalist, pop, punk, post-punk, psychedelic, tango, trip hop, visual ...: some styles embraced by the band ... "When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee ... The smoke of my own breath; echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine; my respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air throughmy lungs ...: the Baalian music that flows inside and out of me."
(Omar Khadji/W.W.) 


"M e m b e r s"

O.M.
(conception, compositions, arrangements, conduction, all instruments and voices) 
&
GUESTS

"E Baal era um deus do início dos tempos, tempo em que o bem não havia se separado do mal e tanto o bem como o mal existiam no mesmo deus. Baal tinha duas faces numa só cabeça. Numa face havia amor e na outra ódio. Enquanto amor mirava o Norte ódio fitava o Sul. E logo ódio estava a Norte e amor a Sul, pois, a cabeça girava continuamente. Com uma mão Baal semeava maná e com a outra praga. Eu vi o ciclo dos tempos se fechando." E, agora, se abrindo...


"I n f l u e n c e s"

The sounds that take us away
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בָּעַלorبعلorבעלתorבַּעֲלָה!


"S i m i l a r(?)"

The nakedness of a petal - sometimes.. the mutation originating from the storms - other times ...
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Le Quat'z'arts Cabaret! 

... a new pitcher for a new wine! 

Baal des Quat´z´arts

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