Sol do Meio Dia

Sol do Meio Dia
Studio album by Egberto Gismonti
Released	1978
Recorded	November 1977
Genre	Jazz
Length	49:51
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Egberto Gismonti chronology

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Sol do Meio Dia (Portuguese for "Noon Sun") is an album by Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist Egberto Gismonti recorded in 1977 and released in 1978 on the ECM label.^[1]

Portuguese is a Western Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula. It is the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau in China. As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India; in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka; in the Indonesian island of Flores; in the Malacca state of Malaysia; and the ABC islands in the Caribbean where Papiamento is spoken, while Cape Verdean Creole is the most widely spoken Portuguese-based Creole. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation may be referred to as "Lusophone" in both English and Portuguese.

Egberto Gismonti Brazilian musician and composer

Egberto Amin Gismonti is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.

ECM is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is "the Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence", according to a 1971 review of ECM releases in CODA, a Canadian jazz magazine.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album 4 stars, calling it an "impressive combo outing... Highly recommended".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Egberto Gismonti

"Palácio de Pinturas" - 5:37
"Raga" - 8:52
"Kalimba" - 5:19
"Coração" - 6:01
"Café / Sapain / Dança Solitária No. 2 / Baião Malandro" - 24:50

Recorded at Talent Studio in Oslo, Norway in November 1977

Personnel

Egberto Gismonti - 8-string guitar, kalimba, piano, wood flutes, voice, bottle
Naná Vasconcelos - percussion, berimbau, tama, corpo, voice, bottle (tracks 2, 3 & 5)
Ralph Towner - 12 string guitar (tracks 1 & 5)
Collin Walcott - tabla, bottle (track 2)
Jan Garbarek - soprano saxophone (track 5)

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly, fluter or flutenist.

A bottle is a narrow-necked container made of an impermeable material in various shapes and sizes to store and transport liquids and whose mouth at the bottling line can be sealed with an internal stopper, an external bottle cap, a closure, or a conductive "inner seal" using induction sealing. Some of the earliest bottles appeared in China, Phoenicia, Crete, and Rome.

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References

↑ ECM discography accessed September 29, 2011
1 2 Cook, S.Allmusic Review accessed September 29, 2011

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