Notes over poetry

Philippe Baden Powell
Disques: Jazz

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Timbre	Far Out
Style	Jazz
Année d'origine Édition	2017

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Philippe Baden Powell (piano, piano eléctrico, voz)

David Linx, Paula Tesser y Delphine Blanc (voz), Rubinho Antunes (trompeta, arreglos de metales), Amir Mahla (saxo tenor), Alexandre Vaz (guitarra acústica), Sidney Rodrigues (guitarra eléctrica), Rafael Paseiro (contrabajo, bajo eléctrico), André Ceccarelli (batería), Ruca Rebordão (percusión), Renata Neves (viola).

Participación especial de: Marlon Moore (voz recitada).

Philippe Baden Powell de Aquino (Paris, Francia, 1978) muestra madurez y personalidad como instrumentista y compositor e, incluso, se atreve como cantante en un álbum de jazz con sabor brasileño, que suena fresco y fluido, con enorme swing.

"Son of Brazilian musical legend, Baden Powell de Aquino, Philippe Baden is reinventing Brazilian jazz in the lineage of his father’s generation. Balancing the classical with the spiritual, the cinematic with the introspective, and sensitivity with a distinctly Brazilian groove, Notes Over Poetry, calls upon the inspiration of the many musical and artistic greats Baden Powell has been surrounded by throughout his life.

“The great Brazilian poet and old family friend, Vinicius de Moraes used to say that ‘life is the art of encounter’, and that is what this album is about.” A nomadic upbringing - moving between Rio, Paris and the coincidentally named German city of Baden-Baden, as well as touring internationally alongside his father and brother, provided boundless encounters with inspirational figures, too many to name (...)

Classically Brazilian in its roots, but global in its outlook, Notes Over Poetry sits as comfortably next to Tom Jobim’s ‘Wave’ as it does to Robert Glasper’s ‘Black Radio’. Vamos Donatear - a track dedicated to the great Joao Donato - is hot, fluid samba-jazz in the vein of the Brazilian legend himself, while the equally groovy Chica hosts punchy horn arrangements reminiscent of masterpieces by Arthur Verocai and Eumir Deodato. With lyrics in English, title track and the satin-soft ‘State Of Music’ lean toward the cooler climate of North American Hip/Hop and RnB, while ‘For You To Know’ is a spellbinding syrup of deep-jazz, flaunting Philippe’s innate talent for writing powerfully emotive melody and harmony.

(...) Today we are in the midst of a global revival of jazz as an art-form capable of traversing its once tired image as music for an older generation, with the emergence of artists like Kamasi Washington, Shabaka Hutchings and Takuya Kuroda. Parallel to this, from MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) to Samba, Bossa-Nova and Tropicalia, new generations are discovering Brazilian music from the 60’s onward. Philippe Baden Powell’s music perfectly reflects Brazil’s huge and unique contribution to the global jazz landscape, and with Notes Over Poetry he presents a milestone release in his career as a torchbearer for a new wave of Brazilian jazz artists."