Amazonas
Unofficial release. Nana Vasconcelos’ Amazonas remains a vital artifact from the early 1970s, a period when the boundaries of Brazilian music stretched restlessly towards international horizons and deeper experiments in sound. Recorded predominantly as a solo project at Phonogram Studios in Rio de Janeiro, the album locates Vasconcelos in an intimate dialogue with percussion, voice, and the berimbau, instruments that he transforms into vehicles for storytelling as much as rhythmic exploration. R…
Passarinho Urbano
In 1975, Joyce Moreno, who had just wrapped up a tour with legendary Brazilian composer Vinicius de Moraes, found herself in a studio with producer Sergio Bardotti in Rome, Italy. She had been taking a break from writing and she decided to pick up a selection of her favorite compositions from contemporary Brazilian writers who‘s songs were beacons of hope in times of an ongoing intense Military leadership in her home country. Unlike their previous albums, these recordings live from their reducti…
Fragmentos da Casa
Brazilian percussion is a universe apart. The fusion of African and Brazilian cultures and rhythms has generated many talented musicians who have gone deep into Brazilian roots to search for its essence and thoroughly research all of our diversity. Many of the percussionists have been transformed into an "export products” worshiped worldwide: Airto Moreira, Naná Vasconcelos, Djalma Corrêa, Fernando Falcão, Pedro “Sorongo” Santos and Marco Bosco, among many others.
Marco Bosco started his perso…
Orquestra Afro-Brasileira
*2024 stock * For almost thirty years the conductor Abigail Cecílio de Moura led the Orquestra Afro-Brasileira, donating their effort as if it were a religious devotion. Before each presentation, he acted like a priest giving thanks, raising the stage for sacred space. The Orchestra was founded in April 10, 1942, with the purpose of studying and disseminating folk music and Brazilian customs, using sociology and anthropology to disseminate it. Mainly based on percussion instruments, at the time …
Duas Vozes
Second ECM duo album by Egberto Gismonti (guitars, piano, flutes, dilruba, voice) and Naná Vasconcelos (percussion, berimbau, voice), recorded in June 1984 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo. Produced by Manfred Eicher.
Solo
Solo album by Brazilian composer Egberto Gismonti on 8-string guitars, piano, surdo, cooking bells and wordless voice, recorded in November 1978 at Talent Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher and released by ECM in 1979.
Sol Do Meio Dia
Album by Egberto Gismonti (8-string guitar, piano, kalimba, wood flute, voice) with Naná Vasconcelos, Ralph Towner, Collin Walcott and Jan Garbarek, dedicated to the Xingu of the Amazon and recorded at Talent Studio, Oslo, in November 1977.