Ar de Rock

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Ar de Rock
Rui veloso ar de rock.jpg
Studio album by
Rui Veloso
ReleasedJuly 1980
StudioRPE Studios, Lisbon
Genre Rock, blues rock
Length35:10
Label EMI–Valentim de Carvalho
Producer António Pinho
Rui Veloso chronology
Ar de Rock
(1980)		 Fora de Moda
(1982)
Singles from Ar de Rock
  1. "Chico Fininho"
    Released: 1980
  2. "Rapariguinha do Shopping"
    Released: 1981

Ar de Rock (literally Air of Rock, meaning "a rock look/appearance"; a pun on hard rock) is the debut album by Portuguese musician Rui Veloso, released in July 1980 by EMI-Valentim de Carvalho.

Contents

The album, produced by António Pinho, contains eleven songs. The songs "Chico Fininho" and "Rapariguinha do Shopping" were released as singles.

Ar de Rock was commercially successful in Portugal immediately after its release and is retrospectively considered a landmark album of Portuguese pop-rock music. Its success is considered to have triggered the so-called "boom of Portuguese rock" in the 1980s. [1] [2] [3]

Recording

The album was recorded in one week and mixed in three days at RPE Studios, in Lisbon, in 1980.

Reception and legacy

Ar de Rock and the single "Chico Fininho" became an immediate success in Portugal. Their success is considered to have triggered in Portugal what critics call the "boom of Portuguese rock" [1] and a wave of pop-rock hits sung in Portuguese, during the 1980s. [4] [5] It also earned Veloso the nickname "father of Portuguese rock". [6]

Francisco Vasconcelos, executive manager at Valentim de Carvalho in the 1980s, said that "with Rui Veloso the politics went out and the social side entered the Portuguese pop music. With Rui Veloso we stopped listening and started feeling and dancing the music made in Portugal. The success of Ar de Rock happened because, in 1980, Portugal was a country that desperately wanted to change." [4]

In 2000, a tribute album named 20 anos depois - Ar de Rock was released, containing covers from various notable Portuguese artists.

In 2009, Portuguese music magazine Blitz named Ar de Rock as the greatest Portuguese album of the 1980s, in a list ranking the greatest Portuguese albums of the past four decades. [2]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rapariguinha do Shopping"Carlos Tê, Rui Veloso4:25
2."Ai Quem Me Dera Rolar Contigo num Palheiro"Tê, Veloso3:34
3."Bairro do Oriente"Tê, Veloso3:48
4."Afurada"Tê, Veloso2:55
5."Chico Fininho"Tê, Veloso2:28
6."Sei de Uma Componesa"Tê, Veloso3:06
7."Miúda (Fora de Mim)"António Avelar Pinho, Veloso3:24
8."Saiu Para a Rua"Tê, Veloso4:04
9."No Domingo fui às Antas"Tê, Veloso2:45
10."Harmónica Azul"Veloso1:28
11."Donzela Diesel"Pinho, Veloso3:13
Total length:35:10

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Ar de Rock
Chart (2023)Peak
position
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [7] 21

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References

  1. 1 2 "BLITZ – 40 anos do boom do rock português. 40 canções que fizeram história". Jornal blitz (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  2. 1 2 PÚBLICO. ""Blitz" elege os 25 melhores álbuns portugueses das últimas quatro décadas". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  3. ↑ Blitz Review, no. 1074, 28/12/2004, 50 Greatest Portuguese Discs
  4. 1 2 Paulos, Pedro. "O segredo que esconderam do Chico Fininho". Observador (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  5. ↑ Blitz 25 Years, Special Collector's Edition, November 2009, no. 41
  6. ↑ Antena1, RTP, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal-. "Rui Veloso: "o pai do rock português" completa 60 anos - Os Dias da Rádio". Antena1 - RTP (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  7. ↑ "Portuguesecharts.com – Rui Veloso – Ar de Rock". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
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