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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