Marcello Gonçalves

Anat Cohen, Marcello Gonçalves – Reconvexo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:31 minutes | 718 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anzic Records, LLC

In their second duo album, following the Grammy-nominated release Outra Coisa: The Music for Moacir Santos, Brazilian 7-string guitar player Gonçalves and New York-based clarinetist Cohen turn their attention to music from the Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) songbook.
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Marcello Gonçalves, Anat Cohen – Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:43 minutes | 851 MB | Genre: Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Anzic Records

For Outra Coisa, Marcello Gonçalves arranged a dozen Moacir Santos pieces from their large-ensemble scores into intimate, lyrical duets, with Anat often playing in the rich lower register of her instrument and Gonçalves channeling the orchestral textures of the originals into his 7-string guitar. “The music of Santos has always been such a treasure,” says Gonçalves, a longtime member of Trio Madeira Brasil. “But it wasn’t until I started going closely through his scores that I realized how natural they feel on guitar, as if they had been composed for the instrument.

Moacir Santos’ music has this lightness and freedom,” Gonçalves adds. “Anat can really dance and sing with it – just listen to her beautifully warm sound and playful phrasing in ‘Nanã’ and ‘Coisa No. 1.’”.
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