This is my second time to Sugarloaf, but the first at night. The
place is starting to pack. It is after 1:00 AM and still people are arriving by gondola.
Marta and I have a few dances, we lose a few inhibitions, and umm, it’s kind of feeling
groovy time. The live music starts at 2:00 PM with Fernanda Abreu. She sings passionately
about the spirit of the Carioca, Brazil, love, Rio, dreams and music.
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Produced by Studio Utopia, the new CD of LELO NAZARIO, Simples, brings nine
original compositions dedicated to musicians like Clare Fischer, Denny Zeitlin, Daniel
Goyonne, Roger Kellaway and Zeca Assumpção, performed by the composer (keyboards) and
Marlui Miranda (voice), Teco Cardoso (sax and flute), Peter Erskine (drums), and Álvaro
Faria (percussion).
Recognized as a very original composer and pianist, he works in the areas of
avant-garde music and jazz. Lelo has joined the PAU BRASIL group, touring Europe and
United States several times, recording three albums, and having won the Sharp Prize (Best
Instrumental Group) of 1996 with the CD "Babel", which also obtained an
indication to the Grammy in 1998 in the Jazz category. He has worked with great names of
the Brazilian instrumental music, as Hermeto Pascoal, Toninho Carrasqueira, Roberto Sion,
Paulo Bellinati, among many others. He has also led the legendary Grupo Um, one of the
first ensembles to put together traditional Brazilian style and contemporary music,
performing in the 70’s and 80’s.
With Grupo Um, Lelo released three albums: Marcha sobre a cidade (1979), Reflexões
sobre a crise do desejo (1981) and A flor de plástico incinerada (1983).
With Pau Brasil, he recorded Lá vem a tribo (GHA, Brussels), Metrópolis
tropical (Divina Comédia, Paris), Babel (Pau Brasil label, São Paulo, and
Blue Jackel, New York), as well as Pau Brasil & Hermeto Pascoal (Tom Brasil,
São Paulo). With the same group, he wrote the music (in collaboration with other
composers) for the "Opera dos 500" in 1992, an opera sponsored by the city of
São Paulo to celebrate the 500 years of the discovery of America.
NAZARIO has written avant-garde works and music for different formations, including
music for piano, ensembles and orchestras, as well as electroacoustic, film and dance
music. In 1989, he formed the Duo Nazario with the drummer Zé Eduardo Nazario, and for
that formation, he wrote "Limite" and "Aurora", works sponsored by the
Symphony Band of the State of São Paulo, and performed in Brazil and abroad (8th.
WASBE Conference, Austria, 1997).
He also recorded three solo albums: Lagrima/Sursolide Suite, Discurso aos
objetos (electroacoustic music) and Se…. The compositions of
"Simples", his fourth solo album, were written in the style of each of those
five honoured musicians, mixing electronic and acoustic sounds, and an unusual rhythmic
structure. "Simples" is one of the best issues of the new Brazilian instrumental
music, and can not be missed!
The CD is an independent production. Contact: Studio Utopia, tel./fax. (55-11)
5581.0262, São Paulo / Brazil.
Internet sales : Dois LL Produções – http://www.artbrasil.art.br/_htm/catcd99.htm
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