Dança Dos Escravos
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Dança Dos Escravos is a solo album
by Brazilian composer and guitarist Egberto Gismonti
recorded in 1988 and released on the ECM label.
Solo album
A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...
by Brazilian composer and guitarist Egberto Gismonti
Egberto Gismonti
Egberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...
recorded in 1988 and released on the ECM label.
Reception
The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars.Track listing
- All compositions by Egberto Gismonti except as indicated
- "2 Violões" - 5:58
- "Lundu" - 6:30
- "Trenzinho Do Caipira" (Heitor Villa-LobosHeitor Villa-LobosHeitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
) - 7:18 - "Alegrinho" - 3:44
- "Dança Dos Escravos" - 14:58
- "Salvador" - 4:45
- "Memoria E Fado" - 3:22