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Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos

Name: Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos
Brand: Anzic Records
Price: 35.0 USD
Availability: InStock

01 Amphibious 3:45

02 Coisa nº 1 3:04

03 Outra Coisa 3:22

04 Coisa nº 6 3:50

05 Coisa nº 10 4:08

06 Nanã 4:32

07 Coisa nº 9 3:49

08 Mãe Iracema 4:32

09 Oduduá 4:26

10 Maracatucutê 5:26

11 Paraíso 4:48

12 Carrossel 1:08

* * * GRAMMY NOMINATION, Best Latin Jazz Album, 2018 * * *

The connection between Moacir Santos and the guitar has been on my mind ever since I heard Baden Powell play Moacir Santos's music on the album “Baden Powell swings with Jimmy Pratt.”

I've always loved the rich orchestral sounds of Moacir's compositions but could not imagine how to transfer the large ensemble sound I heard into my solo guitar. Last year, reading Moacir Santos's scores directly from his songbook, I was surprised how perfectly it fit the 7-string guitar, in the original key, as if the music was composed for the instrument.

I spent a year working on that repertoire and when Anat visited Brazil, I proposed that we get together so I could show her the arrangements I’d been working on. The clarinet was Moacir’s first instrument. If his compositions sounded so beautiful on the guitar, I could only imagine how special they would sound played by Anat on the clarinet. Anat proposed meeting directly at a recording studio and so we did. When we started playing, Anat, who has known me for many years, said: “I have never seen you so happy!” I responded: “I’ve never been!” This recording documents those two happy days in the studio.

I hope you enjoy listening to this music as much as we enjoyed playing it.

Marcello Gonçalves, July 2016

Credits

Anat Cohen – clarinet

Marcello Gonçalves – 7-string guitar, arrangements

All compositions by: Moacir Santos
Recorded & Mixed by: Carlos Fuchs (Tenda da Raposa, Rio de Janeiro, January, 2016)
Mastered by: Mark Wilder (Battery Studios, July 2016)
Cover Artwork by: Michal Levy
Produced by: Anat Cohen and Marcello Gonçalves

Press

“Not since the heyday of Jimmy Guiffre has there been a clarinet player who’s redefined the instrument's role in jazz like Israel's Anat Cohen … a gorgeous tribute to the late Bossa Nova composer Moacir Santos”
— The Observer

“Cohen and Goncalves cast Santos' innovative Brazilian music in a radiant new light … There's a sense of something really eternal in those songs. Those melodies really stay with you … All the more considering the luster of Cohen's tone in all registers and tempos, seemingly defying the recalcitrant nature of the clarinet”
— Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune

“the orchestral qualities of Gonçalves' fingerstyle work, and the deep sonority of Cohen's low-register clarinet tone, are beautifully apparent … a velvety melancholy in the instrumental blend”
— Nate Chinen, WBGO

“clarinetist Anat Cohen has risen to the top tier of jazz … a cover story in this month's DownBeat magazine following two Grammy nominations, a commission from Carnegie Hall and perennial wins in polls … gently beautiful CD “Outra Coisa,” which got a well-deserved Grammy nomination in 2017 for best world music album”
— Paul de Barros, The Seattle Times

“A afinação e, principalmente, o suingue, são notáveis, e raramente você encontra algum artista estrangeiro que possa compreender, como Anat, o que fazemos por aqui … A Anat domina a linguagem do choro como ninguém”
— Silvio Essinger, O Globo