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Paradise Station

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This is Torcuato's rookie album and a good one.

Compared to some of his subsequent CDs though, this "Estacao Paraiso" project, falls a bit shy of the mark (great technique and great compositional skills but it sounded still experimental, like trying to find his definitive identity), but nonetheless a good start back in 1994 for who's become a major player in Brazilian Jazz.

What's amazing especially for a first-time project of this magnitude, is the huge amount of great Brazilian Jazz players who contributed here with Torcuato; check the list:

- Torcuato Mariano / Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Midi Guitar, Keyboards, Programming.

- Armando Marcal / Percussions

- Leo Gandelman / Soprano Sax

- Rique Pantoja / (ex-Cama de Gato member) Keyboards on cuts 1 & 9

- Renato Neto / Electric Piano

- Flavio Venturini (ex-Clube da Esquina member) / Piano & Vocals

- Joao Batista / Bass Guitar

- Cidinho / Percussions

- Carlos Bala / Drums

- Paulinho Calazans (Djavan's band member) / Electric Piano & Programming.

- Arturo Maia (Cama de Gato member) / Bass Guitar

etc. etc.

* Highlights:

1) Um Trem P'ra Uberaba

2) Sobre O Mar

4) I Can't Help It (Vocals by Ana Leuzinger)

5) 2350 (Superb cut)

8) Xafoul

Check it out before it goes Out of Print for good.

Beautiful & light, breezy CD which reminds me at times of Pat Methenys

Brazilian influenced albums. The track "2350" got alot of airplay on "jazzf.m" in London in the early 90s and rightly so to.

Mariano is a wonderfully gifted guitarist similar to Luis Salinas.

This CD is especially to be played during those warm, sunny days in July.