Amaro Freitas

Amaro Freitas – Y’Y (2024) [24Bit-88.2kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 00:43:32 minutes | 722 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Amaro Freitas – Y’Y (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 43:32 minutes | 722 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Psychic Hotline

There’s a moment during Y’Y, the breathtaking new album by Brazilian jazz pianist-composer Amaro Freitas, seemingly designed to clang its way through your eardrums and shock your psyche. It arrives halfway through the eight-minute adventure “Dança dos Martelos,” after Freitas has already offered three exquisitely-played set pieces on piano and prepared piano. Opening with the free-floating, palate-cleansing miniature “Mapinguari (Encantado da Mata),” Freitas moves to a hypnotic four-minute, piano-as-drum melodic exploration “Uiara (Encantada da Água) – Vida e Cura” and then to “Viva Naná,” which mimics with shakers, whistles, percussion and voice the sounds of the Amazon basin.

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Amaro Freitas – Rasif (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:33 minutes | 632 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Far Out Recordings

In the sweltering North-Eastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco lies the coastal city of Recife, where Amaro Freitas is pioneering the new sound of Brazilian jazz. For the prodigious young pianist, the spirit of his hometown runs deep. From the Afro-Brazilian maracatu born on the sugar plantations of slavery, to the high intensity carnival rhythms of frevo and baião, Amaro’s heavily percussive approach to jazz is as indebted to these Pernambuco traditions as it is to Coltrane, Parker and Monk.

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