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You’ve just acquired the second Bossacucanova album, and we’d like to tell you a couple things on how it was made. We recorded onto a hard drive, but the live room ambiance was achieved through very old reverb systems and captured by microphones (no effects). This sonic kaleidoscope incorporates modern techniques and some of the recording industry’s most obscure secrets allied to harmonic...
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You’ve just acquired the second Bossacucanova album, and we’d like to tell you a couple things on how it was made. We recorded onto a hard drive, but the live room ambiance was achieved through very old reverb systems and captured by microphones (no effects). This sonic kaleidoscope incorporates modern techniques and some of the recording industry’s most obscure secrets allied to harmonic elements coming from vinyl grooves. This is how we create the singular BCN sound. To fully enjoy it, crank your amp & PLAY IT LOUD!!! BCN Suddenly I, an original ‘bossa novista’, saw myself surrounded by three kids (a bassist, a keyboardist and a DJ) to record an album!... “Bossa nova with DJ??” wondered a good friend of mine, a radical lover of bossa nova. I didn’t pay much attention to my friend’s comment and decided to embark in the project with Bossacucanova. From the beginning, the four of us agreed that the studio would be a ‘democratic republic’ where information would flow freely without preconceived notions. When our sound engineer pressed the REC button for the first time, I started to discover a new world in music, the world of beats, BPM’s, loops and samples, while I was speaking about chords, notes, melodies and interesting ways for the harmony to flow. But the guys were extremely excited to hear what I had to say. From this ‘blender’ of musical experiences came out a very cool album: good to spin, good to dance to and good to hear. It is great to see that bossa nova can be rejuvenated, this makes it eternal. Roberto Menescal, Rio / December 2000. 01 Telefone (Roberto Menescal/Ronaldo Bôscoli) 02 Nanã (Moacyr Santos/ Mário Telles) 03 Rio (Roberto Menescal/Ronaldo Bôscoli) 04 Guanabara (Bossacucanova/ Roberto Menescal) 05 Água de Beber (A.C. Jobim/ Vinícius de Moraes) 06 Garota de Ipanema (A.C. Jobim/Vinícius de Moraes) 07 A Morte de um Deus de Sal (Roberto Menescal/Ronaldo Bôscoli) 08 Brasilidade (Bossacucanova/Roberto Menescal) 09 Surfboard (A.C. Jobim) 10 Nós e o Mar (Roberto Menescal/Ronaldo Bôscoli) 11 Mais Perto do Mar (Bossacucanova/Roberto Menescal) 12 Bye Bye, Brasil (Roberto Menescal/Chico Buarque) Bossacucanova: Márcio Menescal Programming and bass | Alexandre Moreira Programming and keyboards | Marcelinho DaLua Programming and scratching & Roberto Menescal Electric & acoustic guitars, voice. Guests: Vocals on Garota de Ipanema: Ed Motta (by courtesy of Universal Music) | Vocals on Nós e o Mar, Guanabara and Rio: Cris Delanno | Sax section arrangement on Telefone: Léo Gandelman. Musicians: Drums: Ali-Z (track 07) | Percussion: Laudyr de Oliveira (07, 06), Siri (08, 09), Reginaldo Vargas (05) | Sax Section: Léo Gandelman (01) | Trumpet: Altayr Martins (05) | Strings: Pascoal Perrota’s Company (07) | Acoustic bass: Adriano Giffone (09) | Bongo: Raymundo Bittencourt (09) | Flute: Rodrigo Sha (04, 07) | Tamborim and Ganzá: Dado Brother (01, 04, 06, 08) | Party and Claps: Cucamonga Crew (01, 02, 05, 06, 12) | Vocals: Equale (08). Produced by Bossacucanova | Arranged by Bossacucanova & Roberto Menescal | Recorded & mixed by BCN | Recorded at Estúdio Fibra, Ed Motta Studios, Rio Mix Estúdio and Barquinho Studios, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil | Mixed at Barquinho Studios, except Água de Beber mixed at AR Studios | Mastered by Paul Van der Jonckheyd & Vincent Kenis at Foon, Lier, Belgium | Compositions published by: Vitale (01, 03, 07), Sigem (02), Albatroz (04, 08, 11), Jobim Music/BMG Publishing (05, 06), Jobim Music (09), WEA (10), WEA/Arlequim (12), The sample of Vinícius de Moraes’ voice on Brasilidade is taken from “Carta Ao Tom” (V. de Moraes) and used by kind permission from Universal Music | A&R director: Bernardo Bittencourt | Executive producer: Dado Brother | Photos: Daniela del Corso | Design: pop x studio | Ziriguiboom A&R: Béco Dranoff & Marc Hollander. Thanks to: our families, God, the Island (a place to create music and meet Mary J.), Tom Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes and family and all the composers and musicians who created bossa nova. And also: Ed Motta, Cris Delanno, Léo Gandelman, the Vinyl People, Carlão and Tornaghi (Visom Digital), Vinnie Esparza, Torquato Mariano, Raymundo Bittencourt, Dra. Edna Franco at Universal Music, Yoshitomo Sakuma (our Samurai), Carlos Palhares (Rio Mix Studio), Fatinha (AR Studios), Luciana and Jo Studios crew, Marc Hollander, Béco Dranoff, Hanna Gorjaczkowska, David Beaugier and all the Crammed crew in Brussels, Pat Berry, Bob Duskis, Jennifer Matthews, Louisa Spier, Lisa Nishimura and all at Six Degrees Records, Erica Ruben and Walter at Central Park Summerstage. Thank You!
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