Capoeira Mata Um
| CD 68816 |  |
The Idea
In
the beginning, it was the idea of many to make a recording of the music of
the Capoeira with a choice of excellent musicians under optimal studio conditions.
Particular focus was to be taken of the tone-rich Berimbaus,
each one fulfilling a particular musical function, together with the percussion
instruments. Included in this project were to be the songs like the Ladainhas
and the Quadras.
Claus Jaeke, with whom I worked in 1994/95 to produce the CD anthology
‘Conspiração Baiana´ (Tropical Music 68.970), started
to research the most customary tempos, ways of playing, instrumental arrangements,
songs and words employed in authentic Toques. We put together
Capoeira recordings that were already available and realised straight away
that we actually wanted to design this in a completely different way. We didn´t
want to engage in some semi-ethnological fieldwork, we just wanted to have
Capoeira Music to listen to, to feel, to experience and to dance to for the
year 2001.
In the course of our research we entered, via the internet, a world of the
Capoeira that existed outside of Brazil. It surprised us to discover how many
people all over the world, even down in Bondi Beach, Australia, were actively
involved in Capoeira, either for its dance-like, spiritual content or because
of its martial and combative aspect.
It became clear to us that we couldn´t leave the music of the
Capoeira restricted to Salvador/Bahia either. Capoeira has become a global
phenomenon. This provoked us to request musicians from other cultural fields
to complement the primal musical language of the Capoeira with their own dialects,
stipulating, of course, that the basic rhythm of the Toque remain unaltered.
The CD should be from beginning to end ‘usable´ for the Capoeirista
These are the Brazilian musicians:
ALVINHO
- Vocal & Percussion
Was already singing at the age of 12 in bars and clubs in the state
of Bahia. In 1996 he became a member of the Banda Ourico, later a member of
the Banda Inter (do Bloco Internacionais) with whom he recorded among other
Axémusic titles his second CD as a singer. He has appeared on stage
with celebrities such as Sérgio Reis, Chico Cesar, Mastruz com Leite,
Jimmy Cliff. In 1997 he founded his own band, Maria Kitéria and has
contributed to many other productions as back vocalist.
DENIS LISBOA - Berimbaus
Started as a musician in Balé Folclorico da Bahia (1994), also
studied several semesters at the Universidade Federal de Música and
is one of the most sought after musicians in Salvador. He´s not only
played with Mestres, but also in bands and has contributed to the studio productions
of artists from home and abroad, such as: bei Olodum, Ilê Aiyê,
Vai quem Vem and at the moment with the Banda Umbillical.
Dell Chaves - Percussions
(age 24) His grandpa was a musician of banjo and organ and player
of atabaques drums in a candomblé house. During university studies,
Dell especialized in percussion instruments of Afro-Bahian origin and has
played so far with singer Clecia Queiroz, band Rumbahiana and Monclar Valverde.
LOURIMBAU (Lourival Santos Araújo)
Musician, composer, songwriter, teacher, berimbau maker, Mestre from Salvador/Bahia.
Grew up in Recôncavo Norte, son of a metal worker and capoeirista. Has
played with many artists as a berimbau player and has already performed in
Europe.
Claus Jaeke was born in Augsburg/Germany. After musical studies
at conservatory, travels to the Caribbean and Brazil and after some jobs as
musician, Claus stranded in Salvador in 1979 and established the legendary
bar ‘Vagao´ in an old railway wagon where the music scene of Salvador
met and played. In 1982 he founded Rumbahiana with musicians from Latin America
and Europe. He is an expert in Bahian culture and music and had produced in
1994 the Tropical Music album ‘Conspiração
Baiana
- New Dimensions in Axémusic´
(CD 68.970)
These are the Capoeira Mundial artists:
U-CEF
is a musician and producer now living in London. He comes from Rabat (Morocco),
where he at the age of 14 started playing drums and percussion in luxury hotels.
In 1990 U-cef went to New York to lead the hard life of an immigrant musician.
Within a short time he became completely taken by the sounds of the city streets
and developed a special taste for hip-hop,funky urban jazz and all sorts of
polyglot metropolitan mixtures. In New York he also met the Gnawa master Hassan
Hakmoun. Four years later U-cef went to London, became a member of the techno-worldbeat
group PAN. Since the dissolution of the group U-cef has concentrated on his
vision: a radical new look at Moroccan music in the harsh glare of the late
20th century city life, fusing the spirit of drum and bass, house, funk und
Jazz with the rhythms and sounds of Marrakech, Rabat, Fez, Essaouria the Souss
valley. His first album came out on Andy Morgans APARTMENT22 label in London
( Halalium) in1999.
SALVADOR ‘TCHANDO´ EMBALO comes from Bafata in Guinea-Bissau
in Africa. As a kid, he learnt to play all kinds of guitars as well as drums.
In 1982 he came to Portugal , went to Paris where he worked as a session and
studio musician. Today he is living in Denmark
BA MAMOUR is a musician and singer from Senegal who lived many
years in Bahia, where he has made recordings with celebrities such as Raimundo
Sodré (CD Real /Tropical Music 68.972) Mamour now lives in Belo Horizonte.
EVALK MANIGNAT was born in Haiti , started with 14 years of
age as drummer and bassist in a local Konpa band, later he was a founding
member of Tropicana orchestra and arranger for Webert Sicot. In 1973 Eval
arrived in Montreal/Canada where he founded Vaccine, followed by Young Latins.
His actual band is called Tchaka and unites musicians from various cultures.
(CD ‘Creolité´/Tropical Music 68.989) Haitian Vodou and
Bahian Candomblé have at least one common deity: it is Exú in
Bahia and Elegba in Haiti, both of Nago-Yoruba origin and representing a multifaceted
spirit. In Candomble Exú is the messenger between gods and men, in
Vodou Elegba (Papa Legba) , is the entity that opens the cosmic gates. Eval
pays credit to such relations with a dialogue between Rara-Vaccines and Berimbau
In Rio MARCO SCHNEIDER & CIA DA LAPA BAND has reached something
of the status of the samba-rock-blues in popular music. Their first album
‘é o Diabo na Rua no Meio do Rodamoínho´ was released
in 2000 and reflects three aspects of Rio de Janeiro: beauty, creativity and
violence.
ALBERT MANGELSDORFF, German jazz musician (trombone) of worldwide
fame, 72 years, lives in Frankfurt/M.
After all this is a bahian ‘muqueca´ like hot-pot of sounds and
rhythms heard on this album Ð created by two young musicians, INUKA,
near Bremen which helped us to edit many of the remixes and recordings done
by Capoeira Mundial artists in various continents and with different recording
and mastering formats.
Reviews
"Anyone who practices capoeira or has curiosity about it should seek this one out"
The BEAT"Real Capoeira Music, I bought that CD from Germany. It has both original Capoeira music with single instruments and new cool Remix songs. You can use this CD in your trainings or Capoeira shows. I strongly recommend this CD for all capoeiristas and tropical music lovers."
Customer Review amazon.co.uk"Ainsi, les seize titres du répertoire, rhythmés chacun par un toque différent, sont prétexte à divers mix, dont la créativité, réalisée dan une diversité de culture et de genre, s'accomplet avec déférence."
infos Brésil
"Du beau travail"
Vibrations
"The generous 19 tracks on the album still allow for plenty of authentic toques, there are excellent and copious sleeve-notes, and overall this album can only contribute to a booming Euopean interest in capoeira."
Songlines
"This album is both challenging and a lulling delight to hear...Recommended!"
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