muzycy:
Steen Rasmussen (p)
Lis Wessberg (tb)
Fredrik Damsgaard (b)
Jonas Johansen (d)
Jacob Andersen (perc)
guests:
Joyce Moreno, Barbara Casini (voc, g)
Josefine Cronholm, Marie Carmen Koppel, Caroline Franceska, Leo Minax (voc)
Paulo Braga (d)
Yasser Pino (b)
Jonas Krag, Bjarke Falgren (strings)
Hans Ulrik (ts)
Per Gade (g)
Afonso Correa (perc)
Editor's info:
It’s not especially difficult to become friends with a Brazilian. It’s just as easy to become wild about (and dizzied by) Brazilian music. Pianist Steen Rasmussen is even wilder, having played Brazilian-inspired music for years, over which time he has cemented his posi- tion as one of the kingdom’s richest, most enthusiastic and competent performers, with an unmatched familia- rity of the genre. Ever since he started with Bossas and Sambas (among other sub-genres) in the big country, he let himself fall right into the thick of it. He threw himself straight in, having listened to, and checked out, the very best: Joao Donato, Tania Maria, Djavan, Joyce, Elis Regina, Toquinho, and all the others. He surrende- red himself to the music, and one can hear that. Over the years, he has cultivated and refined his fascination, having mastered the fluid and harmoniously superior Brazilian swing, and orchestrating his playing as if he had grown up right in the middle of Rio de Janeiro.
Steen Rasmussen’s musical mission is on display on several excellent and well-known albums, including LO MEANS DE CADA CASA (2013) with the Brazilian guitarist Leo Minax - the result of a close musical col- laboration to unite Brazilian “Saudade” with the Nordic melancholy. The album was extremely well received and brought the band’s sound to countries all over the world, including Ecuador, Columbia, Brazil, and Spain, ending up in Denmark with a DMA Jazz nomination.
On PRESENÇA (2015), recorded in Rio de Janeiro, Steen continued the Nordic/Brazilian concept, including a collaboration with Paulo Braga –the man responsible for defining Brazilian drumming from the 1970s to the present day.
On the new release, CANTA is the song in focus, and the brilliant album has everything and anything one could desire. As always, the music is superbly played with a plethora of both large and small, d....... more