Milestone
1992
Dois Irmaos
About This Album
This important meeting of clarinetist Paulo Moura and violonista (acoustic guitar) player Rafael Rabelo occurs in a pan-cultural setting. Paulo, an older musician schooled in the traditional circles of choro, modern classical music, and gafieira orchestras (which received have a great deal of jazz influences); Rabelo, a young musician who unfotunatly died at an early age, a violão virtuose also experienced in rodas de choro, but with a particular approach to guitar that was strongly influenced by flamenco music (which is evident on the very first track, a medley of "Ronda" and "Sampa," two unofficial anthems for the city of São Paulo, an old and a modern one). "Chorando Baixinho," a choro classic by Abel Ferreira, admits no liberties under the artists' vision: is delicately delivered in the truest tradition, including Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasileiras" passages. Moura's original "Domingo No Orfeão Portugal" is also performed with no "alien" influences; just the old, swinging samba with choro baixarias de violão (violão basslines typical of the choro genre), sometimes in pizzicatto. Baden Powell's "Violão vadio," an ad-lib rendition, also is completely free from influences other than the Brazilian tradition.
Track List (try tracks 3,5,7 and 9)

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