Egberto Gismonti & Naná Vasconcelos - Duas Vozes (1985)

Artista: Egberto Gismonti & Naná Vasconcelos

Álbum: Duas Vozes
Año: 1985
Género: Jazz Fusión / Latin Jazz
Nacionalidad: Brasil

Lista de Temas:
1. Aquarela do Brasil
2. Rio de Janeiro
3. Tomarapeba
4. Dancando
5. Fogueira
6. Bianca
7. Don Quixote
8. O Dia, À Noite

Alineación:
- Egberto Gismonti / guitar, piano, dilruba, wood flutes, voice
- Naná Vasconcelos / percussion, berimbau, voice

Dos monstruos, uno es extraterrestre (estamos discutiendo si es el I o el II) y el otro es un impresionante percusionista reconocido en todo el mundo.
Ambos habían trabajado junto en el disco "Dança Das Cabeças"... perdón, ya me confundo... ¿ya lo trajimos al blog?, no, no lo publicamos, no importa, lo publico dentro de poco, un disco que corresponde a esa bruta interpretación que muestro en el video, que están esos dos tipos tocando en el Kaiser Bock Winter Festival de 1996...

Duas Vozes is an album by Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist Egberto Gismonti and percussionist Naná Vasconcelos recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label. The album follows the duo's 1977 collaboration Dança Das Cabeças.

Wikipedia

Y no voy a escribir mucho, como muestra basta un botón, y como botón tienen al video que encabeza a este posteo... ¿para qué más? Si no los convenzo con el video, cualquier palabra es inútil.

"Aquarela do Brasil," an unofficial anthem of Brazil, may have received literally thousands of different version and interpretations, but even then, Egberto and Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos (his sole accompanist here) were able to devise an extremely original version, which opens with an unassuming stylized samba introduction, slowly bringing elements which conduce the listener to the piece's identification. Egberto is very fond of percussive attacks and ethereal configurations, both acquiring superior importance in his music, not being necessarily attached to or supportive for a musical theme or melody. Therefore, the next defined melody presented (in the low strings of his 10 string violão) is at track six, "Bianca," which is a complex yet lyrical construction based in which seems a folkloric rhythm motif. Follows "Dom Quixote," another beautiful, lyrical, courageously simple theme delivered at the piano, with Naná's emulating of an African chant and his triangle playing in the forró tradition.

Alvaro Neder

A beautiful pairing of these two Brazilian instrumentalists captured with near-perfect ECM sound, in a space that offers up the full complexities of their music! Egberto Gismonti plays acoustic guitar, as well as piano and flute and even sings a bit, just slightly and Nana Vasconcelos plays his familiar beribmau, and additional percussion often with that airy, ethereal style that leant so much grace to other ECM recordings. This date's a lot earthier than most of the rest on the label, though and marks the great European extrapolation of styles that occurred with both players heard here in a space that's arguably freer and more expressive than they might have found back in Brazil at the time. Titles include "Bianca", "Don Quixote", "Aquarela Do Brasil", "Rio De Janeiro", "Tomarapeba", and "Fogueira".

Luigi Mastropiero

Y pronto vamos con el prometido "Dança Das Cabeças", entre otras tantas cosas que tengo que traer y compartir...