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Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks
by Pierre Giroux
Ivan Lins is a Brazilian music legend and multiple Latin Grammy Award winner who has consistently delivered a unique blend of bossa nova, jazz and pop throughout his career. In this first release in over ten years, entitled My Heart Speaks, Lins performs rare gems from his catalogue backed by the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra along with guest appearances from vocalists Dianne Reeves, Jane Monheit and newcomer Tawanda, as well as trumpeter Randy Brecker. The eleven songs ...
read moreAntonio Adolfo: BruMa: Celebrating Milton Nascimento
by Pierre Giroux
Antonio Adolfo and Milton Nascimento are two legends of Brazilian music. These individuals have had a long history of friendship and appreciation, so it should come as no surprise that Adolfo decided to put together an album dedicated to the music of Nascimento. Hence BruMa : Celebrating Milton Nascimento. The reach and influence of singer/songwriter Milton Nascimento stretches far beyond his native Brazil. Among his many achievements are Grammy Nominations, and Down Beat Polls. Many of his compositions ...
read moreAntonio Adolfo: BruMa: Celebrating Milton Nascimento
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Brazilian performer/composer Milton Nascimento has given the pop, jazz, contemporary and rock worlds an amazon of music that is almost impossible to comprehend in its entirety. With BruMa pianist-composer Antonio Adolfo and a cadre of outstanding Brazilian musicians he provides a highly stylized, exotic and utterly brilliant Grammy-worthy exploration of Nascimento's works. This album is so inviting and the performances so seductive that the entire album screams to be devoured in one luscious conceptual bite. “Fe Cega ...
read moreBeatriz Aguiar: Nomade
by AAJ Italy Staff
Cantante uruguayana (è nata a Montevideo) da anni residente in Olanda, Beatriz Aguiar è una delle interpreti di musica latino-americana più note in Europa. In questo lavoro ricco di collaboratori si mette alla prova su un repertorio piuttosto vario, in parte originale, ma con alcuni brani che fondono le atmosfere d'oltreoceano con le loro radici mediterranee. È il caso di “Astrolicamus," composizione di Luigi Marielli dei Tazenda, di “Una palabra vive," con il testo del poeta sardo Antonio Mura Ena, ...
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