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artist · guizado
release · punx
year · 2008
genre · lo-fi
label · urban jungle
catalogue · guismd
website · myspace.com/guizado
date · 22-jan-2009
quality · alt-preset standard
source · compact disc
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01 vermelho 3:58
02 miragem 6:04
03 maya 5:33
04 areias 4:46
05 rinkisha 4:54
06 coloridos 6:00
07 der golem 4:51
08 orbitas 5:40
09 sagitariu's dream 3:26
10 afroka 4:47
11 zonzo 4:56
playtime · 00h 54m 55s
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kaleidoscope of babylon: push the play button, and close your
eyes: slides of urban landscapes will be projected in your mind in
a kaleidoscope of signs and scents of the city, and hearing will
unveil the musical nuances of each code, abstract or not, from the
daily sao paulo life - the thermic chaos and poetry made out of
concrete, a wall of graffiti in any corner, the smell of rain on
the asphalt or espresso coffee pulled right away, the ice cold
beer poured in short glass, the texture of pollution that tinge
the blue horizon ... the music of guizado has this cinematographic
effect and his first album, "punx," sounds completely drunk of the
noisy aura of sao paulo. from a rhythmic gear full of electronic
noise, the plant lays the timbres of the background for the
sentences of a trumpet almost always disturbed that yells to be
heard in the midst of the collective loneliness of the metropolis.
the project is fronted by gui mendonca - trumpet player who
accompanies or has already accompanied artists like curumin,
donazica, lucas santtana and newly formed trio esmeril. in
guizado, the musician searches (and thinks) his own stamp on a
mixture of harmonic inks of his instrument with the textures found
in experiments with several electronic paraphernalia. if, on one
hand, many of the beats are made on analog synthesizers and
gameboy, the recordings of "punx" were all made on analog tape,
and the clever combination of retro and futuristic atmospheres
gives strength to the work. the trumpet also went through some
filters and overdubs, creating climates more congested, harmonic
collisions that leave no listener injured, but stunned. on the way
the trumpet is played, the reference to miles davis can be heard -
much more because of the spirit of transgression than by an
alleged virtuosity, let it be said. but guizado is not jazz. nor
is rock or hip-hop - it is, indeed, an original collage of all
that and a little more. although pushed by a pulse as almost
robotic, electronic, the pace is always guided by the trance of
african ancestry. besides the creative engine of gui mendonτa, the
guizado has other key pieces. curumin is the drummer on most
tracks; in four of them, who beats the skins is tireless mauricio
takara (hurtmold, esmeril trio, etc...); still on the rhythm
section, special feature of percussionist mauricio alves (mestre
ambrosio) in two songs; regis damasceno and ryan batista,
guitarist and bassist of the band cidadao instigado, complete the
machinery. with this ensemble, the band fills the gaps in the
combination of horns with digital beats and gives us an intriguing
sculpture made of scrap sound. it is the soundtrack that was
missing in order to decipher, once and for all, the soul of babel
/ babylon.
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