No Na Garganta [Import]

Nó em Pingo d'Água | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Rob
• ASIN: B00003IR2H
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,624,828 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nó Na Garganta

2. Pagode Jazz Sardinha's Club

3. Conversa Fiada

4. Tristorosa

5. Luiza

6. Exaltação

7. Manu

8. Valsa da Noite

9. Choro de Criança

10. Samba

11. Ilha

12. Iluminada

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars No Em Pingo D'agua is at the forefront of the Choro Revival - Here's Why, October 26, 2005

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Ron Galen "Ronaldinho" (Richmond, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Na Garganta (Audio CD)

This album, their fourth, shows why the instrumental group, No Em Pingo D'agua (In a Drop of Water), are among a handful of great young virtuoso musicians who are bringing new life to one of the oldest forms of Brazilian music - choro. Choro began in the 1870s and continues to this day as a wonderful cross between classical chamber music and jazz. Playing fretted stringed instruments of various sizes and shapes with hand percussion and the occassional wind instrument or two (the most typical, but not the only choro instrumentation) this quintet brings original arrangements to the best of Brazilian instrumental composers from Jacob do Bandolim, João Pernambuco, Hermeto Pascoal, Egberto Gismonte, Wagner Tiso, etc., to the current title selection Nó Na Garganta (Knot in the throat) by the one of the premiere composers of our time, Guinga, who makes a cameo appearance in the intro.
If all these names are unfamiliar, don't worry about it, just dive in. While American jazz seems to have gone flat and branched off and morphed or fused into hundreds of different directions until, like the Colorado River, ends up going nowhere, Brazilian choro has one foot firmly in its own tradition and continues to evolve with compelling rhythms, enchanting melodies, and argueably the best harmony on the planet today.