MARITACA QUINTET

The music of the Maritaca Quintet is a specially written repertoire, based mainly on compositions by Léa Freire, Thomas Clausen, Jonny Phillips, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. The performances on this CD mix three visions of Brazil - the sensible foreign image of Thomas Clausen, the broad perspective of the Brazilians that represent their country and music abroad, which is the case with Fernando Demarco and Afonso Corrêa, and the images of Teco Cardoso and Léa Freire, who live and produce in Brazil today. Choro, samba, bossa nova, maracatu, maxixe, ijexa, and other styles and rhythms, with space for collective creation, and with new arrangements that privilege the enormous musical intimacy of the instrumentalists. “Water snake, water stone, water eyes, wondrous water world, and then the water bike. Scientists of today have discovered that sounds propagate better in water. It must be true. Musicians love the image of this substance that interconnects everything, read more...