Iroko Trio via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Iroko Trio
- City: São Paulo
- Country: Brazil
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Carla Rincón - violino
Elodie Bouny - violão
Marcelo Caldi - sanfona
Com sonoridade versátil e contemporânea, Iroko Trio nasce para transitar um caminho único na ampla geografia musical da América Latina.
Ao convergir estilos entre obras autorais, comissionadas ou emblemáticas do repertório clássico latino-americano, o trio cria espaço para peças ora imponentes, como Danzón Nº 2, de Arturo Márquez, ora intimistas, como Memória e Fado, de Egberto Gismonti.
Em seus arranjos próprios, exploram com extraordinária profundidade e amplitude cada um dos instrumentos, até seu limite técnico, oferecendo alternativas sonoras surpreendentes para a formação. Iroko Trio, composto por três instrumentistas com brilhantes carreiras individuais, cujas trajetórias cosmopolitas se conectam, contrapõe com maestria a concepção erudita às formas populares. Um convite irrecusável para ouvidos atentos.
With its versatile and contemporary sound, the Iroko Trio has carved a unique path in the vast musical geography of Latin American. Embracing a variety of styles from original compositions, commissioned works, or iconic pieces from the classical Latin American repertoire, the Trio’s repertoire ranges from large and imposing works such as Danzón no. 2 by Arturo Márquez, to intimate pieces such as Memória e Fado by Egberto Gismonti. Through its own arrangements, the Trio also explores the range, depth, and technical resources of each of its instruments, thus extending the sound palette of the ensemble beyond its expected sonorities. The Iroko Trio is composed of three musicians who have built brilliant individual careers as soloists, and whose cosmopolitan trajectories come together to provide a masterful combination of classical and popular musical forms. The results are an irresistible invitation to attentive and discerning listeners.
Contact Information
- Email: irokotrio@gmail.com
- Contact by Webpage: http://www.irokotrio.com.br/contato
- Telephone: +1 (21) 99449-6865
My Media & Markets
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- ▶ Website: http://www.irokotrio.com.br
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXq4qCgGaBNIhUFaO3XyOYw
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
