Two younger Brazilian music serve up a tribute to the music of older Brazilian giants – the guitarist Guinga, and sublime composer/multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal! Yet the setting here is quite different than you might expect – at least for the music of Pascoal – as the duo work with just the harmonica of Gabriel Grossi, and seven string guitar of Felix Junior – but in a pairing that still manages to open up with all the complexities of the songs! Grossi's an especially great discovery – blowing with all the vivid tonal depth of some of our few favorite Brazilian harmonicists from the past – and in a legacy that might well put him up there alongside Toots Thielemans and Mauricio Einhorn, for his ability to create sounds with the richness of a reed instrument. The set includes a few Pascoal compositions – "Balaio", "O Farol Que Nos Guia", "Suite Norte Sul Leste Oeste", and "Fatima" – plus Guinga tunes "Exasperada", "Baiao De Lacan", and "De Menor" – and originals by the duo, very much in the right spirit for the setting – with titles that include "Senhorinha", "Domingo Pascoal", and "Selva De Pedra". CD
Three early albums from Baaba Maal – all of which you'll find a lot more edgey and compelling than material that's more familiarly issued over here in the US! There's a great mix of rootsy elements and some slight electric elements, more as the albums progress – in a blend that works perfectly for Baaba's vocals, in ways that have gone onto become much more standard in contemporary African recordings, but which here definitely earns the "revolutionary" in the title! 2CD set features all cuts from the albums Wango, Taara, and Jombaajo – plus a bonus track – a total of 23 tracks that includes "Wango Arti", "Loodo", "Sehil", "Taara", "Bamba", "Dikel", "Farba", "Miyahata", "Suka Naayo", and "Demga Lam". CD
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Vagarosa ... CD Six Degrees, 2009. Used ...
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A lovely little record from Ceu – a record that balances the Brazilian singers' vocals with a great sense of space in the instrumentation – just the right use of acoustic rhythms, keyboards, and other elements – never as electronic as other albums on the Six Degrees label, in a way that let's the more gentle, subtle aspects of Ceu's vocals really come through beautifully! The record starts with a spare number that only features cavaquinho behind the lyrics – and although other tracks expand the sound out a bit more, that spare mode of the start still holds on nicely. Titles include "Rosa Menina Rosa", "Grains De Beaute", "Nascente", "Cangote", "Sobre O Amor E Seu Trabalho Silencioso", and "Ponteiro". CD
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