Artist.......: Joπo Paulo
Album........: Mem≤rias de Quem
Label........: Trem Azul
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: CF075CD
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Mar-02-2007
str.date.....: Feb-26-2007
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.cleanfeed-records.com
track title time
01. Mi alma 05:18
02. Ramagem 07:21
03. O incΩndio 05:20
04. Durme 05:17
05. Fantasmas 06:43
06. AtravΘs 07:16
07. Mem≤rias de quem 07:18
08. Soneto de Renato 04:47
09. Ritspah 07:03
Runtime 56:23 min
Size 64,4 MB
Release Notes:
The piano solo format is a natural one for this
musician of great inner density. Joπo Paulo is a
composer of exquisite melodic and harmonic
sensibility. He's also a very special improviser,
with the same drive, deliverance and proficiency
that we recognize in Keith Jarrett. But Paulo isn't
just a Lisbon-based disciple of Jarrett's stylings
and techniques, even if there are the same Romantic
references, more Schumann than Chopin. With a
classical Conservatory formation in which he had
the highest classification possible and several
prizes of excellency, he could have been an
accomplished performer of "serious music", but he
preferred to adopt the jazz idiom and decided to
relate it with a personal quest: to find the roots
of his identity as a Portuguese artist and an
European. He does so, for instance, using themes
from the folk tradition of his country and from
Sephardic old tunes. "Mi Alma", "Ramagem" and
"Durme" are clear examples of this. "Mem≤rias de
Quem" is an interrogative album by a pianist who
searches deeper and deeper in an attempt to know
and understand his own self through subconscious
memories of sounds and feelings. The memories
remind us of the Jewish presence in Portugal's
history, of Arabic influences, of all the mixing of
cultures that took place here (Phoenenician, Roman,
Spanish, French, African.) with the remaining
characteristics of the original people occupying
this territory, the Lusitans. Jazz, a music genre
also resulting from several sources, is really the
ideal context for this enterprise. This is a
bright, sunny music, exactly as you would expect
from the White City (Lisbon, as cinema director
Alain Tanner called it because of its white light)
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