Bio:
Compositor, arranjador, produtor musical e violeiro, nascido no Recife (PE) em 1975 e radicado em São Paulo (SP) desde 2014. Lançou o seu primeiro disco solo, "Elefantes na Rua Nova", em 2011, sob patrocínio da Petrobras, e com repertório composto a partir de Bolsa de Incentivo à Criação Artística, concedida pela Funarte em 2008.
Em 2012, compôs a trilha sonora original para o longa-metragem “Eles Voltam” e recebeu o Prêmio Especial na categoria Inovação, no Voa Viola: Festival Nacional de Viola. Neste mesmo ano, o CD “Elefantes na Rua Nova” foi considerado um dos melhores lançamentos de 2011 pelas revistas Sounds and Colours (Inglaterra) e +Soma (SP), pelos jornalistas Ronaldo Evangelista e Dafne Sampaio, e pelo site Radiola Urbana.
Ao lado de Alessandra Leão, criou o selo Garganta Records e a festa La Tabaquera. Acompanha a cantora desde 2006, na produção de seus discos e shows, além de formarem o duo LeãoCaçapa, com repertório dedicado à música tradicional do Nordeste e às próprias criações, individuais e em parceria.
Atualmente desenvolve o projeto “O Coco-Rojão e as Violas Eletrodinâmicas: Pesquisa e Criação”, aprovado no programa Rumos Itaú Cultural 2015-2016, e escreve a série de artigos “Por Uma Discografia Nordestina”, para o site Outros Críticos.
Ao longo de mais de 20 anos de atividade profissional, colaborou criativamente – em discos e shows – com artistas muito diversos: os pernambucanos Alessandra Leão, Siba, Azougue Vapor, Siba e a Fuloresta, Nação Zumbi, Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde, Bongar, Luiz Paixão, Biu Roque, SaGrama, Arabiando, Tiné, Chão e Chinelo, Maciel Salu e O Terno do Terreiro, Mestre Salustiano, Isaar, Hugo Linns, Walter Areia, Adelmo Arcoverde, Jacinto Silva, Silvério Pessoa e Felipe S.; os paulistas Iara Rennó, Renata Rosa, Kiko Dinucci, Thiago França, Juçara Marçal, Metá Metá, Rafa Barreto, Manu Maltez, Guilherme Kastrup, Rodrigo Campos, Beto Villares, Ricardo Carneiro, Marcelo Pretto, Meno, Paulinho Tó, Ná Ozzetti e Ivan Vilela; o gaúcho Arthur de Faria; os paraenses Natália Matos e Felipe Cordeiro; a Orquestra à Base de Cordas de Curitiba; os baianos Livia Mattos, Roberto Mendes, Leo Mendes, Julio Caldas e Viola de Arame; os paraibanos Chico Correa & Eletronic Band e Berra Boi; os cearenses da Fulô da Aurora; a argentina Florencia Bernales; e os japoneses Makoto Kubota e Mio Matsuda.
English:
Composer, arranger, music producer, and guitarist, born in Recife (PE) in 1975 and based in São Paulo (SP) since 2014. He released his first solo album, "Elefantes na Rua Nova," in 2011, sponsored by Petrobras, with a repertoire composed from the Bolsa de Incentivo à Criação Artística (Artistic Creation Incentive Grant) granted by Funarte in 2008.
In 2012, he composed the original soundtrack for the feature film "Eles Voltam" and received the Special Award in the Innovation category at Voa Viola: National Viola Festival. In the same year, the CD "Elefantes na Rua Nova" was considered one of the best releases of 2011 by the magazines Sounds and Colours (England) and +Soma (SP), by journalists Ronaldo Evangelista and Dafne Sampaio, and by the website Radiola Urbana.
Alongside Alessandra Leão, he created the label Garganta Records and the party La Tabaquera. He has been accompanying the singer since 2006, in the production of her albums and shows, as well as forming the duo LeãoCaçapa, with a repertoire dedicated to traditional Northeastern music and their own creations, both individual and in partnership.
Currently, he is developing the project "O Coco-Rojão e as Violas Eletrodinâmicas: Pesquisa e Criação" (The Coco-Rojão and the Electrodynamic Violas: Research and Creation), approved in the Rumos Itaú Cultural program 2015-2016, and writing the series of articles "Por Uma Discografia Nordestina" (For a Northeastern Discography), for the website Outros Críticos.
Throughout more than 20 years of professional activity, he has creatively collaborated – in albums and shows – with a wide range of artists: from Pernambuco, Alessandra Leão, Siba, Azougue Vapor, Siba and a Fuloresta, Nação Zumbi, Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde, Bongar, Luiz Paixão, Biu Roque, SaGrama, Arabiando, Tiné, Chão e Chinelo, Maciel Salu and O Terno do Terreiro, Mestre Salustiano, Isaar, Hugo Linns, Walter Areia, Adelmo Arcoverde, Jacinto Silva, Silvério Pessoa, and Felipe S.; from São Paulo, Iara Rennó, Renata Rosa, Kiko Dinucci, Thiago França, Juçara Marçal, Metá Metá, Rafa Barreto, Manu Maltez, Guilherme Kastrup, Rodrigo Campos, Beto Villares, Ricardo Carneiro, Marcelo Pretto, Meno, Paulinho Tó, Ná Ozzetti, and Ivan Vilela; from Rio Grande do Sul, Arthur de Faria; from Pará, Natália Matos and Felipe Cordeiro; the Orquestra à Base de Cordas de Curitiba; from Bahia, Livia Mattos, Roberto Mendes, Leo Mendes, Julio Caldas, and Viola de Arame; from Paraíba, Chico Correa & Eletronic Band and Berra Boi; from Ceará, Fulô da Aurora; the Argentine Florencia Bernales; and the Japanese Makoto Kubota and Mio Matsuda.
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).