Winds of Brazil (Um sopro de brasil) – Mauro Rodrigues, Joatan Nascimento, Mauricio Einhorn, Paulo Moura, Lea Freire, Mane Silveria, Altamiro Carrilho, Vittor Santos, Teco Cardoso, Paul Moura, Vinicius Dorin – Adventure Music

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Winds of Brazil (Um sopro de brasil) – Mauro Rodrigues, Joatan Nascimento, Mauricio Einhorn, Paulo Moura, Lea Freire, Mane Silveria, Altamiro Carrilho, Vittor Santos, Teco Cardoso, Paul Moura, Vinicius Dorin – Adventure Music  AM 1030-2 *****:

This is a record of a live performance in November of 2004 which brought over 250 musicians to Sao Paulo, Brazil.  The event was part the Brazilian Memory Project and was called “A Brazilian Wind.” The musicians represented a vast array of the country’s wind instrument traditions, including everything from players from symphonic groups to members of traditional folk bands. The rich diversity of wind instrument groups and performers was displayed during the event.

The ten-person ensemble backing the soloists included a string quartet plus the traditional Brazilian stringed instrument the cavaquinho.  It was a surprise to find that brass instruments were also included; trumpeter/composer Joatan Nascimento is a blast in his selection Steel in the Piston.  Flutist Altamiro Carrilho has composed over 200 songs during an over 60-year career.  His Amorous Flower is a lovely tune.  Most of the arrangements heard in this concert had never been performed before, and they all show a different side to Brazilian instrumental music.  The major work – at nine minutes – is Kenoma – subtitled April 21, 1500. That’s when Brazilians celebrate the discovery of their country, by Pedro Alvares Cabal, who then claimed it for Portugal. It is a sort of brief suite imagining early Brazilian music.

Tracks: Firm and Smooth, Steel in the Piston, Affectionate, High Tide, So Much Song, The March of the Sounds, Amorous Flower, Morning of the Carnaval, Kenoma, Mulatas etc. and All, Sunset Star.

– John Sunier

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