Maurício Pereira releases his sixth solo album with new songs, 'O dia da girafa', produced by Biel Basile Bruno dos Anjos / Disclosure ? ALBUM REVIEW Title: O dia da girafa Artist: Maurício Pereira Rating: ? ? ? 1/2 ? “I am the standard-bearer of the common man”, defines himself as Maurício Pereira. in the opening verse of “Uma vida standard” (2022), a partnership with Edson Natale that opens the sixth solo album with a new repertoire from the discography of the singer, composer and saxophonist from São Paulo, “O dia da girafa”, in the world since yesterday, Wednesday, July 29th. Half of the duo Os Mulheres Negras, formed by the artist with André Abujamra in the 1980s, Maurício Pereira can even be “anyone” from the outset, as he emphasizes in “Uma vida standard”, a song repeated at the end of the album in an alternative version. Inside his home and his own head, in the solitary space of creation, Pereira always made unusual music, broadcast on the margins of the market. In “O dia da girafa”, an album produced by drummer Biel Basile, the artist confirms himself as unusual by listing a series of songs in which he usually writes the lyrics and the partners, the melodies. Interestingly, the only song that features only Maurício Pereira's signature, “As clouds, clouds, clouds”, hovers supreme in the authorial vintage of the album “O dia da girafa” with a delicate atmosphere, a melody that seems suspended in the air and lyrics full of images, in the composer's style. Cover of the album 'O dia da girafa', by Maurício Pereira Disclosure The artist's first album with a new repertoire since “Outono no Sudeste” (2018), an album presented eight years ago, “O dia da girafa” succeeds “Micro” (2002) in the artist's phonographic trajectory, with the exception that “Micro” was a project in which the composer revisited his own songbook, rewound by Pereira with guitarist Tonho Penhasco, co-author of “Quanta barbaridade” on the current album. Between the albums “Outono no Sudeste” and “O dia da girafa”, Tim Bernardes – son of Maurício Pereira – established himself as one of the great singers and composers of the generation projected in the 2010s. Tim is his father's partner in “Eu trago o cardiac leakando”, a song more in tune with the indie rock universe of the trio O Terno than with the songbook of Tim's solo discography. Among Pereira's partners in this sixth solo album with songs unreleased songs (only “Uma vida standard” had already been recorded four years ago by partner Edson Natale), there is the producer Biel Basile (on the instrumental theme “Caquinhos” and on “Alfabetiza”), there is the always instigating Romulo Fróes – who follows the usual crooked steps when paving “Casamata de almondeiras”, a kind of isolation samba – and there is Lu Horta, co-author of the title song “O dia da girafa”. Maurício Pereira's other son, Chico Bernardes, is the album's co-producer and the melodic partner of “A professor de melancolia” (another highlight of the vintage due to the absolute synchrony between music and lyrics) and the climactic “Um facho de luz de copper”. The promotional text for the album “O dia da girafa” states that the lyrics were born from a poetic outburst by Maurício Pereira during the social isolation imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, having been created less with the concern of chronicling the city of São Paulo (SP) – a hitherto dominant trait in the composer’s writing and present on the album in the already mentioned track “Quanta barbaridade”, boosted with the guitar of partner Tonho Penhasco – and more with the aim of translating the whirlwind of emotions and landscapes from the artist's head. In the borderless territory of the mind, Maurício Pereira goes beyond the corners of São Paulo (SP) and travels to the coast of Rio in the revelry tone of the fanfare “O leme é um place genial”, a track recorded with A Espetacular Charanga from França. Unlike the trivial man of everyday life, Maurício Pereira is the standard-bearer of unusual music in the poetic flow of the album “O dia da girafa”. Maurício Pereira aligns partnerships with Romulo Fróes and his sons Chico Bernardes and Tim Bernardes on the album 'O dia da girafa' Bruno dos Anjos / Disclosure