Batida - Dois - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Batida - Batida [COMPACT DISCS] Bonus Track date 03/27/2012

Steven Brown is a core member of cult avant garde band Tuxedo moon. As a solo artist he has recorded some ten solo albums, including Music for Solo Piano (1983), Searching for Contact (1987), Half Out (1991), Nine Rain (1996) and Decade (2003). Brown Plays Tenco was recorded in Italy in 1987 and features Steven's own interpretations of five songs written by cult artist Luigi Tenco. Born in Cassine in 1938, Tenco scored many hits as a singer in Italy during the 1960s, but shot himself through the head at the San Remo Festival in 1967 after 'Ciao Amore Ciao' (Hello, Love, Hello), failed to reach the final. The suicide note explained that his suicide was a gesture of protest against the jury's taste in music. Never available on CD before, Brown Plays Tenco has now been digitally remastered with twelve bonus tracks recorded live in Italy in 1988. These include in-concert renditions of songs by Luigi Tenco as well as solo material by both Brown and Tuxedo moon. Steven Brown was born in Chicago in 1952, and currently resides in Mexico City. Tuxedo moon formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following a string of releases on the Residents' Ralph tag, the band relocated to Europe in 1981.

This recital offers a kaleidoscopic array of styles unified by South America's national instrument, the guitar. Titans of Latin American music such as Piazzolla and Barrios Mangoré are represented, but so too are distinctive composers less well known outside of their own countries. Genres such as milonga, Venezuelan waltz and choro are featured, in music suffused with lyrics melancholy and vivacious, biting rhythms. 'His musicianship is unimpeachable, his fleet technique is world-class' wrote American Record Guide of Graham Anthony Devine (8.554195).