LOURIVAL SILVESTRE

Prog Folk • Brazil

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Lourival Silvestre biography
While there are at least two LOURIVAL SILVESTRE's that were born in Brazil and moved to France, the one of interest here only emigrated in 1974 as a young adult. Within a year he had released his only album, Fiction Musicale, with the help of a few Brazilian expats and several members of the French prog stalwarts HELDON. I'm guessing the expats helped convince him to make the move and they already knew Richard Pinhas.

However, his music has little to do with the styles of that band individually or collectively, being more a non-monogamous marriage of psych folk, jazz, and Kraut rock with plenty of flute, acoustic guitar and wide ranging non verbal vocals. Comparisons have been made to TOM ZE, CATHY BERBERIAN, CAN, POPOL VUH, THIRD EAR BAND, and MAGMA (the Argentinian group), but the synthesis here is unique if not exactly immediately engaging.

While Lourival could fit into a few other prog sub genres, we welcome him to prog folk for his ability to push the psych psyche of a few years prior into new primarily acoustic avenues.

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3.00 | 2 ratings

Fiction Musicale
1975

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Fiction Musicale by SILVESTRE, LOURIVAL album cover

Studio Album, 1975
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Fiction Musicale
Lourival Silvestre Prog Folk

Review by kenethlevine
Special Collaborator Prog-Folk Team

I suppose I have to give some kudos to the risible Simian sounds that lash out from the grooves of this LP-only one-off, as I cannot tell if they represent an uncredited and exploited primate, a fretted or laryngeal turn by Lourival himself, or the show-stealing flute of Silvia Beraldo which he foolishly handed to a first time flautist who was unfortunately able to produce sounds from the get go. But, apart from this, I profess to enjoying much of "Fiction Musicale", a woodwind and acoustic guitar driven oeuvre of surprisingly mature psych folk that isn't especially concerned with structure or melody, but with moods and sounds. It doesn't get better than the amalgam of THIRD EAR BAND, CAN, BAYON and MAGMA (Argentina) on the opening number, but it doesn't get all that much worse either. Recommended if this sounds like it's in your wheelhouse, especially if you like to hear monkeys more than see them.

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