Monday 9 October 2023

Back to Meirelles with the CD Paula, limited time upload






 

This later album from percussionist Pascoal Meirelles is of course more smooth in its all instrumental fusion, not at all like the more progressive works from ten years back especially Tamba. It's definitely worth completing these discographies however, because on this CD there is a standout composition by J. Moraes called Fantasia Popular which sounds a lot like a compositional exercise for example from university days because it combines all kinds of intriguing and original creative sounds and themes like a tone poem, like one of the orchestralized compositions of the great Egberto Gismonti, for example.  Obviously he plays all the keyboard digital 'instruments':


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