Duas Vozes

Artist: Egberto Gismonti
Label: Ecm Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD

UPC: 781182127920
EAN: 0781182127920
ASIN: B0000031SU

Release Date: 1994-05-10

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Brazil Meets Jazz In The Post-Bossa Era

Tracks:

Aquarela Do Brazil
Rio De Janeiro
Tomarapeba
Dancando
Fogueira
Bianca
Don Quixote
O Dia, A Noite

Customer Reviews:

Average record from Gismonti.......2004-12-12

Gismonti has been amazingly prolific in making many great albums from early 70's up to mid 90's.

Typically, his music is somewhat "rough" but very powerfull, emotive, rich, risky and bold during all the 70's. It is mostly acoustic work with many Gismonti's vocals too. It is a little difficult to access because of the complexity; but once you are in, it will stay with you forever. Most of this earlier work is under EMI or lately reissued under Gimsonti's CARMO labels.

The 80's are a transition period from pure acoustic to a mix between acoustic and electric instruments; Gismonti's vocals tend to disapear. Typically, the music becomes less provocative and more polite than earlier Gismonti's work. It is somewhat more civilized and more easy to access. Yet, the music remains highly sophisticated and creative; but with little less (good or bad?) surprise. Lots of these albums are under ECM label.

The 90's are a period where Gismonti's Group was founded. The music move towards more classical style: very polite, distinctive, fluid and elegant. Yet, there is still this amazing creativity, complexity and freshness of all Gismonti's works.
A few movie music albums are part of this period too (Kuarup, Amazonia). They tend to have more electronic effects but they stay into the elegant distinctive spirit of Gismonti's group latest compositions. Most of these albums are under ECM or CARMO labels.

About DUAS VOZES, it is a rather nice recording of the 80's for the collection of Gismonti's fan. Yet, although nice (there is NO bad albums from Gismonti), it is far from revealing all the spirited and powerful talent of the artist. This album will not give a good idea of what Gismonti is all about for people who do not know the artist.
Please, check my other reviews of Gismonti's albums if you wish.

It's All True.......2001-04-22

The reviewers below are right on the money. This is a gorgeous album -- intimate, deep, flowing and haunting. It's also much better than this duo's first ECM album.

Incredibly moving & complex music.......2001-01-01

This is really an incredibly moving & complex album of semi-classical/semi-traditional music by two first-rate musicians. Like his American musical soul brothers, the group Oregon, Gismonti records many of the same pieces again & again: on the this album, the buzzing percussion on "Don Quixote" is the voice of Nana Vasconcelos. In fact, this is an almost all-percussion recording, since Gismonti frequently uses his guitar as a percussion instrument. The word "seamless" is slung around with abandon these days, but the music here creates one seamless sound. Later, this kind of music would be called world music, but here it's just outstanding music! There's nothing like it!

Wonderful music from two v. accomplished Brazilian musicians.......2000-08-26

The Multi-talented Egberto Gismonti (guitar, piano, flute, Dilruba, voice)comes together with percussionist Nana Vasconcelos to produce some wonderfully unique music, perfectly suited to the characteristic sound of ECM. There is some extremely moving music on this disc, such as 'Don Quixote' and 'Bianca'. Both musicians sound perfectly comfortable in the musical company of the other. This is a much more intimate portrait of these two musicians than any other ECM release on which on which they feature (including another 5 or 6 under Egberto Gismonti's name, and 1 or 2 under Nana Vasconcelos').

As with much of the other music in which these two musicians have been involved, it can be difficult to tell what is completely improvised and what has been pre-composed. One eventually forgets about this and just enjoys the music.

I would highly recommend this CD to anyone who's interests fall anywhere between jazz and world music, and especially recommend it to anyone who knows and appreciates the music of the ECM label.

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