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Wonderful music from two v. accomplished Brazilian musicians

C. Broom | Glasgow | 08/26/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."

Incredibly moving & complex music

C. Broom | 01/01/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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!"