Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Cantiga de Cego (from Ciclo Nordestino No. 3) (Marlos Nobre) | 1:14 |
| 2 | Baião Malandro (Egberto Gismonti) | 4:33 |
| 3 | A lenda do caboclo (Heitor Villa-Lobos) | 3:23 |
| 4 | Jobiniana No. 1 (Sérgio Assad) | 5:07 |
| 5 | Capoeria (from Ciclo Nordestino No. 3) (Marlos Nobre) | 0:41 |
| 6 | Chôro de mãe (Wagner Tiso) | 5:58 |
| 7 | Série de arco (Hermeto Pascoal) | 3:48 |
| 8 | Toccata em ritmo de samba (Radamés Gnattali) | 3:15 |
| 9 | Alma Brasileira (Heitor Villa-Lobos) | 4:40 |
| 10 | Martelo (from Ciclo Nordestino No. 1) (Marlos Nobre) | 0:37 |
| 11 | Pixinguinha (from suite Retratos) (Radamés Gnattali) | 5:04 |
| 12 | Baião (from Suite Brasileira) (Sérgio Assad) | 3:48 |
| 13 | Praiana (from Ciclo Nordestino No. 2) (Marlos Nobre) | 1:39 |
| 14 | Frevo (Egberto Gismonti) | 2:49 |
| 15 | Cancão (from Suite Brasileira) (Sérgio Assad) | 3:50 |
News & Reviews
- Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Cal Performances 2011–12 Season to Include Dawn Upshaw, Kronos Quartet, Rokia Traoré, Sérgio & Odair Assad, Richard Goode
Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley, has announced its 2011–12 season, which will feature performances from a number of performers familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Dawn Upshaw and Rokia Traoré, each in a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, the latter also with novelist Toni Morrison; Kronos Quartet in the Bay Area premiere of Steve Reich's WTC 9/11; Sérgio and Odair Assad; and Richard Goode.
- Thursday, April 8, 2010
Brazilian-Born Guitar Duo Sérgio and Odair Assad Explore Their Lebanese Roots on Concert Tour
Brazilian-born guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad are delving deeper into their roots in a series of live performances titled De Volta as Raizes (Back to our Roots). The concerts examine the brothers' ancestral roots in Lebanon, following the success of Sérgio's Latin Grammy-winning composition "Tahhiyya li ossoulina," off their most recent Nonesuch release, Jardim abandonado. They'll be joined by pianist/singer/composer Clarice Assad, percussionist Jamey Haddad, and Lebanese singer Christiane Karam in an exploration of the ties between the musics of the Middle East and Brazil.
About this Album
Sérgio and Odair Assad perform wide-ranging work from their native Brazil, which the Los Angeles Times calls “a fertile fusion nexus for guitarists.” Says Sérgio, “Some people call this jazz, some call it avant-garde, but the Brazilians just call it popular music.” Included are works by Villa-Lobos, Pascoal, and works by Sérgio himself.
Credits
MUSICIANS
Sérgio Assad, Odair Assad, guitars
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Robert Hurwitz and Arthur Moorhead
Recorded November 1987 at Kruiskerk, Bergum, The Netherlands
Recording engineer: John Newton
Assistant engineer: Henk Jansen
Digital editing: E. Amelia Rogers and Henk Kooistra
Art direction and design: Steven Byram
Photographs by Michel Delsol
Photo treatment: Mark Malabrigo
