Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Recent review by Pitta Wozzeck (Brazilian writer for Instrumental Verves) of Mangue Bangue, an album I made in 2022 with George Christian  where I play my DIY electro-acoustic berimbau

 
 

 Recent review by Pitta Wozzeck (Brazilian writer for Instrumental Verves) of Mangue Bangue, an album I made in 2022 with George Christian  where I play my home-made DIY electro-acoustic berimbau
.  This is a google translator translation, caveat lector
 
"George Christian & Jeff Gburek. 
   Here we already have a more visceral duet of these steel strings, more based on free improvisation, albeit in yet another resonant electronic immersion. George Christian forms a partnership with improviser and experimentalist Jeff Gburek, who plays with a berimbau immersed in electroacoustic distortions, being manipulated with a stick, bow and other approaches... And George Christian, in turn, plays with a prepared guitar —— altered both in timbre and in tuning —— and it explains very well this latency of sound aridity, the rusticity of its steel strings. The sounds and the entire sound plot between the improvisers, by the way, are inspirations from the impactful short film "Mangue-Bangue" (1971) by Neville d'Almeida, even though the duo does not intend to create an original soundtrack for the film, which is a landmark of Brazilian experimental cinema. Like the film, the soundtrack captures the extremes of human life: primitivism and expansion, the rustic and the avant-garde, the archaic and electronics. Although released more recently, this is another one of the records where George Christian and his musical partners create their sounds imbued with a dense reflective charge provided by the consequences of the pandemic and a troubled period of socio-political relations."
-- Pitta Wozzeck

listen to the jams we kicked out here: 

more verbal acrobatics in Brazilian Portuguese over here:
https://www.instrumentalverves.org/2022/12/os-sons-outsiders-do-guitarrista-baiano.html#more

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