Egberto Gismonti | |
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 Gismonti in Buenos Aires, 2017. | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Egberto Amin Gismonti |
| Born | 5 December 1947 Carmo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Genres | Folk rock, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | 8-string guitar, 10 string guitar, piano, wood flutes, kalimba, Indian organ |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Labels | ECM, EMI |
| Website | Egberto Gismonti |
Egberto Amin Gismonti (born 5 December 1947) [1] is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist. [1]
Gismonti was born in the small city of Carmo, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, into a musical family. His mother was from Sicily and his father was from Beirut, Lebanon. At the age of six, he started studying the piano at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music. After studying the classical repertoire in Brazil for 15 years, he went to Paris, France, to delve into modern music. [2] He studied with Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), after acceptance as a student by the composer Jean Barraqué, [2] a student of Anton Webern and Schoenberg. Boulanger encouraged Gismonti to write the collective Brazilian experience into his music. [3]
Gismonti is a self-taught guitarist. After returning to Brazil, he designed guitars with more than six strings, expanding the possibilities of the instrument. Approaching the fretboard as if it were a keyboard, Gismonti gives the impression that there is more than a single guitar player. Gismonti's sojourn in the Xingu region of the Amazon basin made a lasting impression. This is documented musically in tunes such as "Yualapeti" and "Sapain" (Yualapeti shaman, Sapain) and in the recordings Dança das Cabeças ("Dance of the Heads", 1977), Sol do Meio-Dia ("Noon Sun", 1978), which he dedicated to the Xingu, and Duas Vozes ("Two Voices", 1984). [4]
The musical career of Gismonti spans five decades. The major phases are distinguished by record company, the ensemble format, and the musical collaborators. The most important ensembles are his Brazilian group Academia de Danças, including Mauro Senise (saxophone and flutes), Zeca Assumpção (bass) and Nenê (Realcino Lima Filho, drums and percussion), the duo with Naná Vasconcelos (percussion), and the trio with Charlie Haden (bass) and Jan Garbarek (saxophone). [2] Dança das Cabecas, the first ECM record, was nominated "Album of the Year" by Stereo Review and received the 1977 Großer Deutscher Schallplattenpreis. [5]
In 1978 he founded the music label Carmo, which has had several joint ventures with ECM. [6]
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