Carlos Bernardo | Água Nova

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Água Nova

by Carlos Bernardo

© Copyright - carlosbernardo / Carlos Bernardo (634479159022)
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Hooking around the smoothness of new age corners, yet building often on ragged banjo, lute and guitar, every track is a new experience, unto itself. Featuring Brazilian composer on guitars, bass, banjo, dan nguyet, cavaco and more.
Genre: World: World Fusion
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1. Vazio Quase Escuro
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2. Salle De Miroirs
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3. To Chegando
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4. Bilhete Pra Isabel
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5. Balladin
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6. La Maison Dieu
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7. Eau Neuve
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8. Impro
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9. Salut Le Maître
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10. Kasim Canon
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ABOUT THIS ALBUM


Album Notes
recorded, mixed and produced by Carlos Bernardo
France - winter 2000
mastering - Robert Suhas/Blues Café
France -spring 2002
photos: Hugues Boucry et Dominique Jambert
design: Hugues Boucry


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Ben Ohmart
(...)10 songs there are glorious jazz/world guitar albums. (...)
Sometimes the best things come in small packages. Though Carlos Bernardo's self-released cd is a mere 34 minutes long, the 10 songs there are glorious jazz/world guitar albums. Hooking around the smoothness of new age corners, yet building often on ragged banjo, lute and guitar, every track is a new experience, unto itself.

Often the music is loose and hidden, like background music in an upperclass mall store: the kind that doesn't play rock and doesn't believe that lyrics should be involved in music. The midget 'La maison dieu' goes there, easily followed by an Eastern step into 'Eau neuve' which bubbles into stereo at a leisurely pace and keeps on the country road with a master's touch.

Master he is, having had Toninho Horta and Nelson Faria teach him jazz in Brazil. He's toured much of the world - Paris, Tokyo, Montreal, Sydney - with a show called The Flood Drummers. Why? Well, Carlos has been living in France since 1999 where he's been playing with Ariane Mnouchkine's Theatre du Soleil. There, he's Jean-Jacques Lemetre's right hand man. He must be right handed, by the sound of it.

For what you hear glides on cleaner than butter to a hot pan. All instrumental, all noiselessly inspiring. True, sometimes the pace kicks up, but it will never kick you in the face. For that, listeners are immediately grateful. I know I am; every time the jungle sounds of 'Salut le maitre' start. Great outdoor fare without the bugs.

Caesar Ursic
Beautiful acoustic guitar melodies and arrangement
A refreshing mix of acoustic six string guitar, percussion and vocals. The tropical, Brazilian influence is subtle but powerful. Although not Bossa Nova, fans of Jobim should check this CD out.

Cristhiane Oliveira
This real good music! The more you listen the more you like it!
Excellent musician... Creative guitar player. Real good music!

Shinji
Bacana!
Carlos Bernardi is writing an important pabe in the Brasilian history of instrumental music and in special to thw history of guitars.

Javier Antonio Quiñones Ortiz
This is first rate stuff, (.)Well recorded, arranged, produced and mastered, thi
Àgua Nova is Portuguese for “New Water.” The aqueous motif is not plain rubric as this album does model Carlos Bernardo's flowing musical stringed ways. His ways, conversely, are innovative.

Bernardo, using a combination of diverse string instruments, offers the listener ten flowingly melodic, harmoniously strong, and cleverly conceived encounters. All the cuts reveal a range of insight: reflective reasoning, profound models of musical rectitude when organizing such a wide array of musical ethnicities, high aesthetic wits, and perceptive yet firm fingering and strumming techniques.

“Salut le maître” illustrates matters as well as any other cut. Its sweet banjo march is peppered, at a modest yet driving pace, by the rest of the strings and minimal ambient sound enhancements. This musical greeting aims to show a Master what the disciple has to offer. Bernardo has excellent intonation in all instruments. Besides, he suffers from no lack of ideas or good taste in their combination and placement.

Àgua Nova is an epigrammatic and appealing musical work that gels very well with multitudinous musical interests. This is first rate stuff, very secure in its refreshingly candid and economic phrasings. Well recorded, arranged, produced and mastered, this CD will engage you in any sound system too.

Listening to it during a sunny South Florida spring afternoon, while looking at a gliding hawk in the sky and Zebra Longwing butterflies fluttering right outside the window–sipping nectar from a purple flowered vine in bloom–as distant thunders hover at the horizon, I am reminded of how serenity can enable a good musician to produce engaged beauty.

Richard Dunlap
Masterful and Delicious
Like the picture on the cover, this music is refreshing, effervescent, vibrant and flowing. There is great sophistication, but it never hits you over the head with it. Nor does it ever slip into the mundane.
The sound is unique and unbound by easy categorization, but some comparisons come to mind: fans of Steve Howe's "Natural Timbres" album should love this. Also in places it reminds me of something Pat Metheny might've done, or a more accessible Steve Tibbetts.
I'm very pleased to have this in my collection. I held back one star only due to the short playing time of this CD. While I appreciate that none of the tracks over-stay their welcome, I enjoy this music a lot and would like to have more of it. But this in no way tempers my recommendation of this tasty CD, and the price is certainly reasonable for it's length.