Bio:
Grandson of César Farias, son of Paulinho da Viola, nephew of Raphael Rabello...
Nascido em 1981, no Rio de Janeiro, João Rabello vem desenvolvendo seu trabalho dentro da linguagem do violão e da música instrumental brasileira desde o lançamento do seu primeiro álbum, Roendo as Unhas, em 2006.
Neste trabalho, João Rabello mostra as primeiras indicações de um estilo que relaciona técnica e sensibilidade, interpretando desde obras clássicas, como a célebre La Catedral (Agustin Barrios) até ousadas composições próprias e originais como Rubro.
Com o lançamento do seu segundo álbum, Uma Pausa de Mil Compassos em 2011, João Rabello direcionou suas prioridades para o violão brasileiro contemporâneo: novas ideias, composições inéditas e arranjos novos.
A partir desse trabalho solo, João Rabello tem se apresentado em concertos pelo mundo. Podemos destacar a abertura do Queensland Music Festival na Austrália (2009), a participação na apresentação de Paulinho da Viola no Carnegie Hall em Nova York (2012) e o concerto ao lado da Orquestra Filarmônica de Rotterdam na Holanda (2016).
Ao mesmo tempo em que desenvolvia seu trabalho instrumental, João Rabello acompanhou seu pai, Paulinho da Viola, em seus shows pelo Brasil e pelo mundo a partir de 2004. Essa experiência o levou inevitavelmente a um novo projeto. Ao lado da irmã, a cantora Beatriz Rabello, João desenvolve um show em torno das canções de Paulinho da Viola.
Reunindo 15 anos de experiência em palcos ao lado do pai, o olhar dos filhos será único. Beatriz e João podem trazer desde nuances que só a proximidade com o compositor da obra traz, sem deixar de lado suas características desenvolvidas como artistas solo.
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
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.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).