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Given Villa-Lobos describes as “bizarre” and “strange” the seizure of 91 elements of the band of which he was a guitarist, Legião Urbana, carried out by the Civil Police in Rio de Janeiro.
The operation, called Tempo Perdido, was carried out this Wednesday, in a warehouse in the Cordovil neighborhood, north of Rio, used by the Universal Music label, which owns the rights to the phonogram.
The musician, who is in Lisbon, says that the tapes are not only by Renato Russo, but by Legião Urbana, which also included drummer Marcelo Bonfá and bassist Renato Rocha, who died in 2015. “It’s not Renato Russo, it’s Urban Legion, ”says Dado. “It belongs to me, it belongs to Bonfá and Renato [Rocha]. “
The seized material – made up of cassettes, master cassette and CD – will be delivered to Giuliano Manfredini, son of Renato Russo and heir to the musician. According to his press office, the tapes and CDs would be lost without anyone knowing where he was.
“What happened yesterday was that the Brazilian police and justice invaded the private property of a multinational called Universal Music, one of the largest on the planet,” says the guitarist. “The records, the Phonograms of the Legion until [o disco de 1997] ‘Uma Outro Estação’ belongs to the Universal label. And of course, during the recording process there were leftovers, things that we don’t use and that are still there. “
Given makes an analogy with television. “Imagine that an heir to Janete Clair arrives with a court order and the Civil Police enter Globo’s archives and say they want the tapes of all the soap operas Globo has already produced. ‘Give me what I want to put at home’. It is more or less that. And the morons at Globo did not realize this fact. And I wanted to say that full and total responsibility rests with Universal Music. “
The Jornal Nacional, on TV Globo, in its edition this Wednesday, presented a report on the seizure of the tapes.
In a statement, Globo affirms that the report “is based on the delegate’s statements and, mainly, on the inventory carried out by the music producer Marcelo Froes, attached to the investigation.” The communication of the channel also says that “the matter does not say who owns the seized material.” “He says that the material ‘will be in charge of Renato Russo’s son, Giuliano Manfredini'”, recalling that this is the judicial decision.
The search for unreleased songs by Renato Russo – and consequently – Legião Urbana had already been the objective of the operation will be, at the end of October. At that time, the Rio police said they had seized 30 supposedly unpublished compositions by Renato Russo, which would be in the possession of the investigator and music producer Marcelo Froes. They seized a computer, hard drives and cell phone.
According to Dado, Froes was hired between the late 1990s and early 2000s by EMI, later bought by Universal, to digitize the Legião Urbana tapes, including leftovers from the studio. “Of all the records, more than 200 tapes,” he says. “It’s a job that the record company paid him for. It has nothing to do with that. It’s record label stuff. “
Given also says that Froes sent, at the same time, several CDs with the recordings that he had digitized for him and Bonfá, as well as for Renato Russo’s family. According to the Jornal Nacional report, according to police information, the result of the survey was never presented to the singer’s family.
“What happened is that Marcelo Froes, after doing his job, made a report that he sent me, Bonfá and family [de Renato Russo]. I have all the CDs he sent so I know what was on each tape. It is very simple. We try to release these leftovers now in the 30 years of ‘Dois’ [álbum da Legião Urbana], in the commemorative edition. We tried and boy [Giuliano Manfredini] Not authorized.”
Regarding the content of the tapes, Dado says that there are no unreleased songs, but historical records of leftover recordings, rehearsals and unused material. One of these recordings is a version of “Juízo Final”, a song by Nelson Cavaquinho that the band decided not to release because it did not fit on the vinyl of the 1986 album “Dois”.
There is also an English version of the song “Factory” and an instrumental song called “The Great Winter in Russia”. In the material seized by the police on Wednesday there would be a reggae version of “Faroeste Caboclo.” According to Dado, this is not a new version, but parts of the original recordings, since the music itself has a stretch done in reggae.
“These people are very stupid. There is reggae in the middle of the song. I was there recording. People say anything, “says Dado.” We spent two days recording ‘Faroeste Caboclo’, a nine-minute song, we recorded it in two pieces, the acoustic and then the electric, and it stuck on tape. It’s a shame to hear that. “
According to the Jornal Nacional report, there would also be at least one totally new song called “Helicopter”. According to Dado, this recording is not a new song and “it must be the riff of ‘Daniel na Cova dos Leões’”, a Legião song composed by Renato Russo and Renato Rocha for the album “Dois”.
Given also said that all the contracts of the band were signed by all the members and that the material was “at least well kept”. “These tapes will rot in one place, I don’t know where, because there [empresa] Iron mountain [o galpão onde foi a apreensão] They were conditioned and preserved. The record company, which owns this file, pays for this service on a monthly basis ”.
Disappointed by the situation, the guitarist says that “they can burn” these tapes and that he is already working to avoid “any release of any Legião song that has a note on my instrument.”
Wanted, Universal said he was “surprised by this search warrant and seizure in his record of tapes and is giving access to the police investigation to know what is about to take the appropriate legal measures.”
According to his adviser, Giuliano Manfredini would have loved to recognize his father’s handwriting on the tapes. He was summoned to appear at the Cidade da Polícia police station, a complex also in the north of Rio, and handled the material received with the delegate, which arrived in a van.
Carlos Trilha, ex-producer of Renato Russo’s solo albums, said at the time of the operation it will be that there will be no unreleased music by the singer that has not already been published, but rather some poems and lyrics, outlined in notebooks, that have not yet come out.
On Thursday he stressed that there was nothing new. “The tapes are the originals, which were where they should be, in the Universal warehouse, which owns the phonograms,” he said. “It is the battle of the laity, part two,” he added.
Renato Russo passed away in 1996 as a result of complications from HIV, and his previously unreleased material was explored on the album “Último Solo”, which was released after his death.
