Bio:
Referência no mundo do samba, o músico, arranjador e educador, Gabriel Policarpo, destaca-se pela maneira criativa e virtuosa de tocar o repique. Nascido em 1984, na cidade de Niterói - RJ, ele despertou seu interesse pela percussão durante a infância, tocando em blocos carnavalescos. Aos 13 anos, entrou para escola do seu bairro, G.R.E.S Unidos do Viradouro, e após dois anos na mesma agremiação, sob a regência do Mestre Ciça, assumiu o lugar de primeiro repique e solista da escola. E posteriormente, no ano de 2015 compôs a comissão de mestres de bateria para o grupo especial do carnaval do Rio de Janeiro. Em 2019 a marca brasileira de instrumentos musicais Contemporânea, lança o Repique “Signature Gabriel Policarpo” com idéias e criações desenvolvida pelo músico para o instrumento.
Ao lado do músico Bernardo Aguiar, criou o Pandeiro Repique Duo (PRD), trabalho que coloca lado a lado esses dois instrumentos típicos da alma carioca expandindo desde os limites regionais às sonoridades universais. Após três anos de estrada, o PRD lançou seu primeiro álbum que contém um CD bônus com participações especiais de Yamandú Costa, Nicolas Krassik e Carlos Malta, Marcos Suzano, Mestre Ciça e o cantor africano, Ashimba. Desde então, atua por diferentes palcos e universidades do mundo, dentre eles, The Juilliard School of Music, The Philadelphia University of Arts, City University London e Copenhagen Rytmisk Konservatorium; e na Dinamarca, em 2014, o Duo gravou o primeiro álbum do Strejf, grupo instrumental formado em parceria com o baixista francês, Brice Soniano, e o pianista dinamarquês, Carsten Kær.
Como educador, Gabriel desenvolve cursos e atua na preparação de grupos musicais por diferentes países. Durante 4 anos, no Canadá, ministrou workshops sobre a música brasileira e se apresentou como convidado especial, no Folklorama, maior festival multicultural do mundo. Já na cidade do Rio de Janeiro criou a escola de ritmos Batuquebato, projeto pedagógico que propõe o ensino dos ritmos brasileiros aplicados a instrumentos de escolas de samba; o que motivou a criação da Orquestra de Ritmos Batuquebato, cuja proposta original é: agregar instrumentos harmônicos e melódicos a ritmos universais através de composições autorais.
Gabriel Policarpo também participa ao lado de grandes nomes da música brasileira e internacional, tanto em shows como em gravações. Destaque para gravação e participação na turnê do álbum “De bem com a vida”, vencedor do Grammy Latino como melhor disco de samba de 2016, com Martinho da Vila. Assim como, já dividiu o palco ao lado de outros ícones, dentre eles, Alcione, Marcelo D2, Chico César, Hamilton de Holanda, Marcos Suzano, Carlos Malta, Roberta Sá, Xangai, Gabriel Moura, Cátia de França e Guns N' Roses no Rock in Rio 3.
Músico referência no Brasil e no mundo pela sua maneira criativa e virtuosa de tocar o repique, Gabriel Policarpo apresenta a primeira edição do seu Curso de Repique no formato online e ao vivo.
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Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
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).