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Vinicius Cantuaria – ‘Psychedelic Rio’ |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posted: 28 Mar 2024 at 7:23am |
(Sunnyside Records. Album review by Phil Johnson)
This new album pairs him with the Italian team of electric bassist Paolo Andriolo – who first approached Vinicius after a gig in Rio – and drummer/percussionist Roberto Rossi. The repertoire includes a number of familiar items and begins with ‘Rio Negro’, co-written with Caetano Veloso. It’s the track that perhaps most fulfils the ‘psychedelic’ reference in the album’s title, which primarily relates to the leader’s use of Fender electric guitar, with added reverb and distortion, although most of the treatment is well within the limits of Cantuaria’s normal sound-world. He has always mixed electric and acoustic sources, with the exception of his acoustic solo work, where he’s a fabulous interpreter of Antonio Carlos Jobim. The subsequent tracks include Brazilian classics ‘E Preciso Perdoar’ by Alcyvando Luz and Carlos Coqueijo, and Jobim’s ‘Insensatez’, which are both entirely winning. Originals include a beautiful ballad, ‘Berlin’, which features dreamy double-tracked guitar, and the melancholy ‘Humanos’ . A song about an often heard but seldom seen Amazonian bird, co-written with Nana Vasconcelos, ‘Ulrapuru’, provides another sort of psychedelic effect, its insistent shuffle-rhythm percussion and imitations of rainforest noises conjuring a soupily narcotic haze. ‘Psychedelic Rio’ might be more marking time than a truly new direction but it’s a worthy addition to the Cantuaria discography. BAND: LINKS: Psychedelic Rio on Bandcamp – and YouTube from https://londonjazznews.com Edited by snobb - 28 Mar 2024 at 7:28am |
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