sexta-feira, 12 de julho de 2002

Nóis na fita

Estou no site do Ian Gillan de novo - inaugurando o novo design do site. Minha carta está na Q&A. Nela, eu pergunto sobre o projeto Cherkazoo. Não sei se vocês sabem, mas Cherkazoo era um desenho animado de que o Gillan fez o projeto nos anos 70. Não chegou a ser produzido, mas as musiquinhas foram gravadas e são ótimas.

Em 92, Simon Robinson pegou esse material e lançou em CD. Tenho esse em casa. Leiam aqui a resenha da Kerrang sobre o disco. Conheçam um trecho do roteiro (completamente louco, mas que explica mais ou menos a quem Gillan se refere quando canta "My name is professor Pig, I'm gonna be something big in mathematics").

Vejam o que o Gillan diz sobre o projeto:

"Dear Marcelo,
Cherkazoo was originally an animated musical fantasy which never really saw the light of day. I remember a meeting in the seventies with all the senior people at Disney. I did a presentation at their studios in Hollywood and they were very enthusiastic. However it coincided with a sea change of company policy and they were in production with Robin Hood, having decided to go back to classic stories as the basis for their films, due to bad figures on some recent contemporary stuff.

So, the music lay idle for quite a while until Simon Robinson at rpm records resurrected them along with some other material of the same era. The CD is sort of confusing in terms of its title, but has some value as a record of its time.

More recently Cherkazoo has been revived, rewritten and recorded for four sellout shows at the Guildhall in Axminster, Devon, performed by the local kids who have a music society of which I am honoured to be the president.

The concept was, and still is with the rewrite, about a youngster (Laura now and Julian then) dealing with the world as it is, in all it's bewildering manifestations, with the help of some pretty cosmic characters from a planet called Cherkazoo.

You've given me an idea now, I'll put the script up on 'Wordography' then you can plough through the whole thing.
Cheers, ig"

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