Bio:
Érico Moreira provém de uma família de músicos e artistas, imerso no mundo da música desde tenra idade. Aos 10 anos, já acompanhava seu pai, também músico e compositor em Paraty-RJ.
Aos 12 anos, mudou-se para São Paulo, onde começou como assistente de estúdio na renomada produtora Xuxa Levy. Aos 17 anos, passou a se dedicar principalmente à produção de trilhas sonoras para publicidade, televisão e cinema, enquanto trabalhava como engenheiro de som.
Aos 24 anos, gravou seu primeiro álbum solo, "Pindorama", onde tocou todos os instrumentos e cuidou da gravação e mixagem. Em 2007, mudou-se para Barcelona e uniu-se à cantora local Sara Pi, formando um projeto que durou 11 anos, resultando em 3 álbuns, dois dos quais lançados pela Sony Music Espanha. Em 2022, com mais de 100 músicas autorais em seu repertório, voltou ao projeto solo e lançou "Dentro da Matrix", seu segundo álbum de estúdio.
É raro encontrar artistas que dominem múltiplas habilidades como músico, compositor, intérprete, produtor, engenheiro de gravação e mixagem, mas Érico Moreira é um desses raros talentos. Em seu último álbum, "Dentro da Matrix", ele assumiu todas essas responsabilidades. O álbum, produzido de forma independente, foi indicado ao Grammy Latino 2022 na categoria de Melhor Álbum de Engenharia de Gravação. Érico foi o responsável pela produção, composição e mixagem do álbum. Na mesma categoria, concorreu com lançamentos de artistas renomados como Liniker (Zé Nigro e Gustavo Ruiz), Antonio Adolfo (Marcelo Saboia) e a influente pop star Rosalía (Manny Marroquin/Chris Gehringer).
Após ser indicado pela segunda vez consecutiva, Érico venceu o Grammy Latino na categoria de Melhor Álbum de Engenharia de Gravação, pelo álbum "Canto a la Imaginación" da cantora catalã Marina Tuset. Ele foi responsável pela produção, gravação e mixagem, com masterização feita pelo engenheiro Felipe Tichauer.
English:
Érico Moreira comes from a family of musicians and artists, immersed in the world of music from a young age. At 10 years old, he was already accompanying his father, also a musician and composer in Paraty-RJ.
At the age of 12, he moved to São Paulo, where he started as a studio assistant at the renowned producer Xuxa Levy's studio. At 17, he began to focus mainly on producing soundtracks for advertising, television, and cinema, while working as a sound engineer.
At 24, he recorded his first solo album, "Pindorama", where he played all the instruments and took care of the recording and mixing. In 2007, he moved to Barcelona and joined forces with the local singer Sara Pi, forming a project that lasted 11 years, resulting in 3 albums, two of which were released by Sony Music Spain. In 2022, with over 100 original songs in his repertoire, he returned to his solo project and released "Dentro da Matrix", his second studio album.
It's rare to find artists who master multiple skills like musician, composer, performer, producer, recording and mixing engineer, but Érico Moreira is one of those rare talents. In his latest album, "Dentro da Matrix", he took on all these responsibilities. The album, produced independently, was nominated for the 2022 Latin Grammy Awards in the Best Recording Engineering Album category. Érico was responsible for the production, composition, and mixing of the album. In the same category, he competed with releases from renowned artists such as Liniker (Zé Nigro and Gustavo Ruiz), Antonio Adolfo (Marcelo Saboia), and the influential pop star Rosalía (Manny Marroquin/Chris Gehringer).
After being nominated for the second consecutive time, Érico won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Recording Engineering Album, for the album "Canto a la Imaginación" by the Catalan singer Marina Tuset. He was responsible for the production, recording, and mixing, with mastering done by engineer Felipe Tichauer.
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"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; recorded "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
Conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Thus A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until Sodré was silenced, threatened with death and forced into exile...
And thus a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (seat of the Integrated Global Creative Economy* and where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
*Darius Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and lives between Washington D.C. and Salvador da Bahia.
Between 2000 and 2004 he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola. In that capacity, Darius led a team which generated $150 million in annual lending to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure which catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment.
Darius was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked closely with the U.S. Treasury and the IMF to establish a framework to avoid debt repudiation and to restructure private commercial debt in Brazil and Chile.
He taught Economics at the University of Maryland and was a consultant to KPMG on infrastructure projects in Latin America.
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
EX TERRA BRASILIS
The Small World Phenomenon
Susan Rogers
Alicia Svigals
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Sodré
Betão Aguiar
Bule Bule
Caetano Veloso
Darius Mans
Sparrow/Pardal Roberts
RÁDIO MATRIX