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Andar Com Gil

Delia Fischer

Label: Jasmiin
Released: 2023
Duration: 00:33:01
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Tracks

Oriente; Se Eu Quiser Falar Com Deus; Andar Com Fé; Cada Tempo Em Seu Lugar; São João Xangô Menino; Prece; Palco; Aqui e Agora; A Paz

Personnel

Album Description

International superstar Gilberto Gil makes a rare guest appearance on a new tribute album to him by Brazilian singer-songwriters Delia Fischer and Ricardo Bacelar in honor of his 80th birthday. The album, Andar com Gil (Walk With Gil) (Jasmin Music), honoring Gil’s unprecedented 60-year career in Brazilian music, available on all streaming platforms. Gil appears on the pair’s recording of “Prece (Prayer),” a song from his own recent Latin Grammy-winning album OKOKOK. For the tribute album, recorded at Bacelar’s Jasmin Studio in Fortaleza in northeast Brazil, the duo selected repertoire focusing on Gil’s more spiritually oriented songs from throughout his career, from 1972’s “Oriente (East)” to 2018’s “Prece (Prayer).” Gilberto Gil said, “Delia Fischer and Ricardo Bacelar have released an album based on my songs about the power of friendship, faith in God, and spirituality in general. I am part of this work with some songs, especially “Prece,” a song that I recorded specifically for the album with them. I hope that you will enjoy the work.” “Delia and I have done some duo projects before,” Bacelar said, “but we wanted to create an album together from scratch. We seized upon the idea of recording an iconic artist we both loved, and Gil was our first choice. We decided to emphasize Gil’s deeper sensibility and the rich poetry that infuses his spiritual songs.” The arrangements are subtle, with piano, keyboards, and exotic percussion instruments employed minimally to enhance Gil’s haunting melodies and lyrics. “Making Andar Com Gil was an intense emotional experience for us,” Fischer said. “We wanted to capture the emotion by recording the piano and voices simultaneously, live in the studio, on tracks such as ‘A Paz (Peace),’ ‘Oriente (East),’ and ‘Aqui e Agora (Here and Now).’ And, to differentiate our versions from Gil’s, in which his superb acoustic guitar playing is front and center, we wanted the piano to be the backbone of our renditions,” she explained. “Besides the joy of having Gil join us on ‘Prece,’ Fischer said, “we were also honored to feature cellist Jaques Morelenbaum,” world-renowned as a member of Tom Jobim’s band and for his work with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Caetano Veloso.. “Gilberto Gil is an amalgam of complex music personality, poetic skills and deep spiritual reflections,” Bacelar said. “Having him with us for the recording of “Prece” was very moving. We felt he shared the same introspective spirit we did; he was very much in tune with us.”

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