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Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: Overture; Repinique Interlude; Samba De Orfeu; A Felicidade; Cuica Interlude; O Nosso Amor; Manha De Carnaval; Batacuda I; Eu E O Meu Amor/Lamento No Morro; Frevo De Orfeu; Valsa De Euridice; Ascend, My Love; Um Nome De Mulher; Batacuda II; Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Voce; Violao Interlude; Hugs And Kisses.

Album

Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Label: Frame
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Overture (A, C. Jobim); 02. Repinique Interlude (N. Matta); 03. Samba de Orfeu (L. Bonfá); 04. A Felicidade (Jobim/V. De Moraes); 05. Cuica Interlude (Motta); 06. O Nosso Amor (Jobim); 07. Manha de Carnaval (Bonfá); 08. Batucada 1 (Motta); 09. Eu E O Meu Amor/Lamento No Morro (Jobim/V. DeMoraes); 10. Frevo de Orfeo (Jobim); 11. Valsa de Euridice (Jobim); 12. Ascend, My Love (Matta); 13. Um Nome de Mulher (Jobim/De Moraes); 14. Batucada II (Motta); 15. Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Voce(Jobim/De Moraes); 16. Violao Interlude (Matta); Hugs and Kisses (Matta).

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Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La cosa che più colpisce di Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus è l'approccio assolutamente personale nel rivisitare la celebre colonna sonora firmata nel 1959 dalla triade Jobim-Moraes-Bonfá. Soprattutto negli interludi Matta ha inteso rimarcare l'anima più recondita di Jobim, debitrice dell'armonia eurocolta impressionista (Debussy, Ravel). Il co-leader del Trio Da Paz dà così l'impressione di essersi svincolato ...

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Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Brazilian bassist Nilson Matta has, like all artists, has drawn inspiration for his music from a variety of sources--of which a play and a movie serve as the influence for the moving Black Orpheus. Antonio Carlos Jobim's compositions for the 1957 Vinicius de Moraes Brazilian play Orfeu da Conceicao and the 1959 Black Orpheus movie that ...

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Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


This CD is the culmination of Nilson Matta's lifelong dream: to record his interpretation of the Orpheus music from the Brazilian play and movie of the 1950s. To make it happen, Matta enlisted fifteen superb players from Brazil and the United States, building his ensemble up from the rhythmic, native heart of the music. The result ...

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Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been told and retold in various mediums and manners throughout the ages. Claudio Monteverdi used opera as his means of transmitting the tale, alt-rocker Nick Cave tackled it head-on in song and author Neil Gaiman revisited the story in comic book format, but the list doesn't stop there; any ...


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