Sylvia
Track three of the debut, largely improvised to complete the album.
Arthur Verocai, from Arthur Verocai (1972)
Verocai alone wrote it. At Red Bull Music Academy in 2006 he said it was largely improvised after he realized the album needed a tenth song: he had only nine pieces, but the album had to have ten. He credited Jethro Tull as an influence on its flute and effects. Aquarium Drunkard wrote in 2012 that, cascading, it deftly incorporates folk, jazz and ornate orchestration into a three-minute frame. Setlist.fm shows it played 7 times in 20 setlists, second to "Na Boca do Sol" in count, with the earliest listed show at Thalia Hall in Chicago on August 15, 2023, and then the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on June 25, 2024 and the Barbican in London on June 28, 2024. The 2009 Luckman concert played the whole album.
A search summary says it is dedicated to someone close to him and that Mr Bongo issued a seven-inch pairing it with "Na Boca do Sol"; we could not verify either. We found no covers or samples of this track.
On stage
- 2024-06-28, Barbican, London From the 2024 European dates.
Sources
- Arthur Verocai: Seriado, Red Bull Music Academy (2006)
- Arthur Verocai, Sylvia, Aquarium Drunkard (2012-02-15)
- Arthur Verocai (album), Wikipedia
- Arthur Verocai setlists, setlist.fm