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Chico Mello - guitar, vocals, clarinet, euphonium, matchbox
Silvia Ocougne - guitar, vocals, euphonium, cavaquinho
total
duration: 70:31
live
recording of the oaksmus concert on February 2,
2001
item
no.: om010202
retail price €
13,90
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from the booklet:
Silvia Ocougne and Chico Mello insert an intelligent quirkiness
into the mainstream of what is generally understood by Brazilian
popular music. For them the popular music of their homeland is
the musical point of departure, out of which they create their
own music. Their approach to tradition is sovereign, irreverent
and playful-ironic, but never contemptuous. Silvia Ocougne and
Chico Mello have their fun with this music to which they stand
so close and yet as musicians and composers at a distance as well.
Just as distanced as to the European-North American popular music
tradition which they approach from their own musical background
- as with Billy Strayhorn's 'Take the "A" Train'. Their means
of making this distance clear are musical irony and the Brazilian
joy in the unexpected, which does not occur as a long-planned
and circled-off break as in European art music, but rather as
a humorous, ironically commentated chaos which cuts through repeatedly
like a bolt of lightning.
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