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Gente

Nóis 4
Discos: MPB / Jazz

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Sello Candid
Estilo MPB / Jazz
Año de Edición Original 2004

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Nóis 4: Mônica Vasconcelos (voz), Ingrid Laubrock (saxos), Ife Tolentino (guitarra) y Chris Wells (batería).

Participación especial de: Guinga, Swami Jr., Toninho Ferragutti, Guilherme Kastrup y Webster Santos, entre otros.

Edición en formato Digipack.

"Despite the name, the music of Mônica Vasconcelos's quartet Nois 4 doesn't grab you with vocal histrionics or thundering riffs. But their album Gente (Candid, 13.99) does things that few other World albums attempt. Each track is distinctive, exploring different aspects of Brazilian rhythm, timbre and melody and wordplay. And Vasconcelos's voice is charming and tuneful, but with an element of reticence and taste you don't expect from a Latin-jazz-fusion frontperson. Vasconcelos has class, but she doesn't make a big deal about being classy.
In some respects she is like a curator of Brazilian music, rediscovering her compatriots' sound and reinterpreting it
in a coolly individual way. Influencia do Jackson, the wordy, high-energy opener is one of two tracks written by Aldir Blanc and special guest Guinga. Vasconcelos's rapid delivery is intense, almost rap-like. The intricate words deal with schools, sexism, football and corruption. Relampiano (by Lenine and Paulo Moska) is about childhood poverty, the story of a child selling chewing gum by urban traffic-lights in the rain, given extra emotional power by Ben Davis's Basquiat Strings and some clever mixing from drummer/producer Chris Wells. Com A Perna No Mundo (by Luiz Gonzaga Jr) has an engaging, rough-hewn choir; Jobim's Cancao Em Modo Menor features Ingrid Laubrock's lovely tenor sax against Davis's poised strings. (Davis plays cello in Laubrock's own band.)
Nois 4's line-up comprises Vasconcelos, Laubrock, Wells and Brazilian guitarist Ife Tolentino. (The original Nois was a nine-piece.) They are based in the UK, but recorded Gente in Brazil, where they recruited musicians such as Guinga (who is returning to tour with them next year) and accordionist Toninho Ferragutti. The album includes folky, Foro-inflected pieces such as Cha de Panela (also by Guinga and Blanc), gentle ballads, sweet waltzes and chilled, spacey grooves such as Leve, with Laubrock on Wayne Shorter-ish soprano sax. (It is not so much that she sounds like Shorter, more that, like him, she avoids playing the bleeding obvious). Nois 4 have made a clever, multi-layered album that grows on you with each listen." John L  Walters (The Guardian, 19.11.2004)

Temas

CD 1
01
Influência do Jackson
Carlos Althier de Souza Lemos Escobar (Guinga) - Aldir Blanc
04:38
02
Relampiano
Lenine - Paulinho Moska
04:56
03
Choro bandido
Edu Lobo - Chico Buarque de Hollanda (Chico Buarque)
04:07
04
Com a perna no mundo
Luiz Gonzaga Jr. (Gonzaguinha)
04:02
05
Canção em modo menor
Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim) - Vinicius de Moraes
05:16
06
Chá de panela 
Carlos Althier de Souza Lemos Escobar (Guinga) - Aldir Blanc
04:50
07
Sobre o papel 
Chris Wells - Pedro Casadalma
05:06
08
Leve
Ingrid Laubrock - Mônica Vasconcelos
04:16
09
A flor e o espinho
Nelson Cavaquinho - Guilherme de Brito - Alcides Caminha
03:53
10
Canto pra Cira
Chris Wells - Mônica Vasconcelos
05:27
11
Why
Ife Tolentino
04:09