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Caravela Escarlate: Caravela Escarlate
ByPieces such as "Caravela Escarlate" and "Atmosfera" are designed with Rodrigues' sweeping mellotron voicings, pungent cadences, majestic choruses and memorable hooks amid David Paiva's lyrical wah-wah guitar lines. Sure, there are a few inferences to classic-era Genesis via 1970s style progressions and absorbing choruses, forming celestial auras and mobile walls of sound. But "Gigantes da Destruição" is engineered with a pumping jazz groove led by the keyboardist's feathery electric piano soloing, morphed into variable time signatures and a straight-four jazz rock permutation.
On "Atmosfera" the ensemble takes you to an enchanted land, where radiant synths and sitar sub-motifs transform into a hypnotic and vivid musical environment. Moreover, they shift gears during the jazzy "Gigantes da Destruição," featuring Rodrigues' single note lines, performed on electric piano, feeding a circular theme and an in-your-face jazz fusion vamp.
Other passages contain psychedelics, sober musings and volcanic crescendos, along with thrusting motifs. And add a few somber interludes executed at various cadences topped off with Paiva's hard-hitting bass and guitar parts in concert with Rodrigues' elegant layers and graceful soloing jaunts. Essentially, these young cats burn on all cylinders while traversing a golden path that could conceivably lead to widespread recognition and all the good things that may follow.
Track Listing
Um Brilho Frágil no Infinito; Caravela Escarlate; Atmosfera; Gigantes da Destruição; Toque as Constelações; Futuro Passado; Cosmos; Planeta-Estrela.
Personnel
David Paiva: bass, guitars, vocals; Ronaldo Rodrigues: keyboards; Elcio Cafaro: drums.
Album information
Title: Caravela Escarlate | Year Released: 2019 | Record Label: Karisma Records
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