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Caçuá, a word with Tupi (Indigenous Brazilian Language) origins, is a wicker or vine basket used to carry provisions. It’s also the title of Parisian-born, Rio de Janeiro-based violinist Nicolas Krassik’s fine CD with a choro trio and special guests.

Like a caçuá basket, the album is full of a variety of things - mostly finely performed choro with his band: Nando Duarte on 7-string guitar, João Hermeto on pandeiro (the Brazilian tambourine that plays a much bigger role than our pop and gospel music version), and Fábio Luna on drum kit - but also venturing into samba, baião and xote. 38-year-old Nicolas has only been in Rio since September of 2001, but his affinity with Brazil’s music has made him a mainstay of the city’s musical scene, recording with many leading artists. Caçuá is his second solo CD.

Playlist

1421
Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1423
CD Cut 10 - 'O Casamento da Raposa' (The Fox's Marriage)
Gerson Filho, arr Marcelo Caldi
BR-ROF-06-00066
Robdigital Records RD 084 http//:www.robdigital.com.br.
Nicholas Krassik - 'Caçuá'
4:52 sudden
(Up choro for flute, violin and mandolin, joined by accordion, percussion and two 7 string guitars with some flashy interplay towards the end.)

1428
CD Cut 7 - 'Um Chorinho em Cochabamba'
Eduardo Neves
BR-ROF-06-00063
Robdigital Records RD 084 http//:www.robdigital.com.br.
Nicholas Krassik - 'Caçuá'
3:42
(Relatively modern choro with brushed drums, flute and violin featured)

Segue

1432
CD Cut 4 - 'Jiggan'
Music Moller
Pub Not Spec
Amigo AMCD 760
( no Australian distributor
www.amigo.se the label site does not do e-commerce.
Should be available worldwide via these sources:
www.cdroots.com
www.cuberoots.com
www.digelius.com )
Ale Möller Band - 'Djef Djel'
2:27
Lively jig for big, mixed band of viols, lutes and percussion)

1436
CD Cut 16 - 'My Hair Is Flying in the Wind'
Trad, arr Nikola Parov
Pub Not Spec
www.zulya.com
Zulya and the Children of the Underground - 'Elusive' (Expanded Edition)
4:20
(Austral perf: double strung lute, frame drum, fiddle, flute and tambourine back Zulya's song which says, 'My hair is flowing, my tears are falling for my sad destiny.')

Segue

1440
CD Cut 11 - 'Karanfil (Clove)/ Santa Morena'
Public Domain/Jacob do Bandolim, arranged by Nicolas Krassik
BR-ROF-06-00063
Robdigital Records RD 084 http//:www.robdigital.com.br.
Nicholas Krassik - 'Caçuá'
3:42
(Turkish odd-time traditional piece bookends choro for violin, 7 string guitar, darabukka and brushed drums)

1445
CD Cut 12 - 'The Lament'
Tanya Sparke
Pub Not Spec
Self Release (Self Dist. P.O. Box 7115
Bondi Beach NSW 2006).
Tanya Sparke - 'Darkwood Road'
7:20
(Austral Comp And Perf: Peter Dasent's piano and Tanya's increasingly high pitched and fervent wordless vocal which she explains as:
the way
you feel
sometimes)

TANYA SPARKE + PETER DASENT, MELANIE OXLEY + CHRIS ABRAHAMS GIG ALERT (Sydney)

Saturday July 12 At 3pm
Damien Minton Gallery
61-63 Great Buckingham Street Redfern
T: 02 96997551
E: art@damienmintongallery.com.au
w: www.damienmintongallery.com.au

Segue

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CD Cut 8 - 'Petite Maman'
Nicolas Krassik, arranged by Chico Chagas
BR-ROF-06-00064
Robdigital Records RD 084 http//:www.robdigital.com.br.
Nicholas Krassik - 'Caçuá'
4:32
(Ballad for Nicholas' late mother, featuring his violin, Chico Chagas' piano and gentle percussion)

1457
CD Cut 3 - 'Adona'
Music, Lyrics: Sene, arr. Moller
Pub Not Spec
Amigo AMCD 760
( no Australian distributor
www.amigo.se the label site does not do e-commerce.
Should be available worldwide via these sources:
www.cdroots.com
www.cuberoots.com
www.digelius.com )
Ale Möller Band - 'Djef Djel'
Two minute excerpt
(Powerful W.African vocals of Mamadou Sene with marimba and massed strings, claypot, guitars and double bass in song that Mamadou wrote for his mother's funeral)

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Lucky Oceans

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