Track Listings (6) - Disc #1| All Artists: Egberto Gismonti Title: Musica De Sobrevivencia Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Ecm Import Release Date: 8/1/2000 Album Type: Original recording reissued, Import Genres: International Music, Jazz, Pop Styles: South & Central America, Brazil, Jazz Fusion Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 731451970627 |
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Egberto Gismonti is both a folklorist and a symphonist, a musician who loves the intimate grain of the tin flute or blown bottle and the sweeping grandeur of the orchestra. In many ways, his work invokes the early-20th-cen... more » |
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Amazon.com Egberto Gismonti is both a folklorist and a symphonist, a musician who loves the intimate grain of the tin flute or blown bottle and the sweeping grandeur of the orchestra. In many ways, his work invokes the early-20th-century composers who drew on folk inspirations. The symphonic dance of Villa-Lobos, Stravinsky, or Milhaud is as close to his heart as the rain forest, and what's remarkable here is that he's created that sense of breadth with a quartet. Equally adroit on guitar and piano, Gismonti seems to use the two instruments to express the different dimensions of his music. He's joined here by Nando Carneiro on keyboards and guitar, Jaques Morelenbaum on cello, and Zeco Assumpcao on bass. They fuse into an ensemble that can span the rugged folk dance of "Lundu #2" and the sprightly piano music of "Ferro," bringing vigor and elegance to the leader's shifting methods. Gismonti's compositions here are inspired by themes of survival, nature, family, and friends, and while the pieces are without vocals, he has supplied short poetic texts for them. For the 33-minute "Natura, festa do interior" ("Backwoods Festival"), he has supplied a short verse for each of its 15 parts, as well as a text by poet Manuel de Barros to be read five minutes before listening to it. It's a structured meditation on the transforming power of wilderness with an imaginative breadth that finds connections between the soil and the concert hall. --Stuart Broomer Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsWhen we can?t say a thing...(Se una cosa non si puņ dire...) Luca | ROME Italy | 11/30/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "When we can't say a thing, we have to be silent. But if the last sentence of the "Tractatus" by Wittgenstein should be a general law about our behavior, perhaps never we can't speak about music. Teodora Krasteva, a young wonderful musician, advised me playing "Forrò" to explain me what she thought about Gismonti. Really, it was enough. Then I can only make like this, advising you the hearing of this track: I think its expressive power is unbelievable (...and impossible to be said...). In this music you can understand many ways of the Gismonti's musical genius, but in particular you can see how a very strong classic background ca meet with the most enjoying creativity. Forgive me, now, please, I see I have said to much..... Quando una cosa non può essere detta bisogna tacere. Ma se l'ultima proposizione del "Tractatus" di Wittgestein dovesse essere assunta a regola generale del nostro agire, forse di musica non si dovrebbe mai parlare. Teodora Krasteva, giovane e meravigliosa musicista, per spiegare cosa pensava di Gismonti mi fece ascoltare "Forrò". Non servì altro. Allora posso solo imitarla, sommessamente consigliando l'ascolto di questo brano contenuto nel cd, che personalmente ritengo di eccezionale (indicibile, appunto...) forza espressiva: in un solo pezzo è possibile riconoscere molti dei sentieri della creatività musicale di E.G., ma soprattutto colpisce come un solidissimo gusto "classico" si accompagni alla fantasia più esaltante. Mi scuso, vedo che ho detto anche troppo."
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