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Bleeding Amazonia

Millennium Jazz Orchestra

Label: ZenneZ Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 60:20
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Tracks

Prologue (Prólogo); Flora and Fauna (Flora e Fauna; Interlude 1; Indigenious Peoples (Povos indígenas); Deforestation (Desmatamento); Interlude 2; Forest Fires (Incêndos florestais); Climate Change (Mudanca climatica); Interlude 3; Pollution (Poluição); Hope (Esperança).

Personnel

Millennium Jazz Orchestra

band / ensemble / orchestra

Joan Reinders

composer / conductor

Lilian Vieira

vocals

Additional Personnel / Information

Reed players: Gerlo Hesselink: alto (lead) and soprano sax, flute; Rob Sijben: alto and soprano sax, clarinet, flute; Joao Driessen: tenor and soprano sax, clarinet, flute; Luuk de Vries: tenor and soprano sax, clarinet, flute; Job Helmers: baritone saxophone, bass clarinet. Trumpet and flugelhorn: Bas Konings; Susan Veneman; Florian Sperzel; Herman Nijkamp; Anne- Marie ten Heggeler. Trombone: Gregor Sperzel; Simon Pugsley; Jan Peter van der Hoeve; Lars de Bie: bass trombone, bass tuba Rhythm section: Dirk Balthaus: piano; Bart Tarenskeen: double bass; Felix Schlarmann: drums; Vincent Spitters: percussion.

Album Description

Bleeding Amazonia is a new 8-part suite by conductor, composer, arranger Joan Reinders for the Millennium Jazz Orchestra based on a selection of poems by the Brazilian poet and environmentalist Thiago de Mello. Central theme of the suite is the loss of the Amazon rainforest. Featured artist is Brazilian singer Lílian Vieira.