Elations Recordings presents “Depois do Sil\u00eancio”, an intimate, forward-looking acoustic bass, digital keyboard and synthesiser recording by Brazilian avant-garde jazz luminaries Zeca Assump\u00e7\u00e3o and Lelo Nazario. This release celebrates almost fifty years of the duo’s friendship and musical affinity, continuing a musical dialogue between long-time collaborators. The duo began working together with Hermeto Pascoal’s “Grupo Vice Versa” in the mid 1970s before forging one of Brazil’s most adventurous experimental jazz groups “Grupo Um” in 1976; releasing three albums with a shared avant-garde and lateral, exploratory approach to sound fusing jazz and contemporary synthesis with expanded and prepared acoustic playing. “Depois do Sil\u00eancio” reflects the duo’s long development of a shared conception of music, resulting in a work that is both timeless and modern. The music on the album was primarily recorded in Nazario’s UTOPIA Studio, S\u00e3o Paulo, in 1994, featuring Assump\u00e7\u00e3o on acoustic bass and Nazario on his newly acquired Ensoniq TS-12; these recordings were supplemented with acoustic bass for “Quintal da Mem\u00f3ria” in 2018 and completed with an additional layer of rich, complex analog and virtual synthesis following their rediscovery of the material in 2022. Assump\u00e7\u00e3o’s deeply expressive acoustic bass playing forms the backbone of these compositions, augmented by Nazario’s expansive and exploratory approach to synthesis, its constantly shifting timbres “making music a living organism, which adapts to situations as they appear.” Nazario explains that “although the themes are written, much of the music is improvised based on an organic development of ideas, all intertwined and interrelated exactly as happens in a living organism”. The album title “Depois do Sil\u00eancio” (After Silence) references a phrase by the writer Aldous Huxley; “after silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music”. Assump\u00e7\u00e3o and Nazario continue a search for new forms of music…<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elations Recordings presents “Depois do Sil\u00eancio”, an intimate, forward-looking acoustic bass, digital keyboard and synthesiser recording by Brazilian avant-garde jazz luminaries Zeca Assump\u00e7\u00e3o and Lelo Nazario. This release celebrates almost fifty years of the duo’s friendship and musical affinity, continuing a musical dialogue between long-time collaborators. The duo began working together with Hermeto Pascoal’s “Grupo Vice Versa” in the mid 1970s before forging one of Brazil’s most adventurous experimental jazz groups “Grupo Um” in 1976; releasing three albums with a shared avant-garde and lateral, exploratory approach to sound fusing jazz and contemporary synthesis with expanded and prepared acoustic playing. “Depois do Sil\u00eancio” reflects the duo’s long development of a shared conception of music, resulting in a work that is both timeless and modern. 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