Showing posts with label Murat Verdi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Murat Verdi. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Murat Verdi - Shuara (feat. Nana Vasconcelos)

Styles: Fusion,Brazilian Rhythms,Turkish Folk
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:50
Size: 147,0 MB
Art: Front

(7:52) 1. Mimi Upendo
(5:56) 2. Subindo
(6:02) 3. Beyond the Horizon
(5:54) 4. Kudema
(4:51) 5. Shalimar
(7:41) 6. Ovada
(6:06) 7. Yarin Senin.mp3
(3:31) 8. Corcovado
(9:15) 9. Funky Zeybek
(4:39) 10. Okundu
(8:04) 11. Tulpar

Born in Istanbul, Turkey he started to play percussion at age 6 In his early teens he started to develop interest in rock Music and picked up the drum set and started to play in high school groups and amateur groups which won awards in national competitions, Arif Mardin recommended him to study at Berklee College of Music, where he then studied arranging , composition and drums with great instructors Alan Dawson, Herb Pomeroy, Gary Burton, Michael Gibbs. In NYC further studies at Julliard and NYU Musical associations with Ismet Siral, “Creative Music Studio” in Woodstock, Nana Vasconcelos, Trilok Gurtu, Marilyn Crispell, Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Steve Gorn, Badal Roy, Bai Konte, Tom Cora, Aiyb Dieng and many others, performed in Woodstock and NYC area with various groups at clubs and venues including “Sounsdscape”, “ Circle in the Square” Drummer with“ Free funk avantgarde band” “ Creativity” led by the late guitarist Alfonia Timms, which performed in the NYC area Musical associations and performances in Turkey with Emin Findikoglu, Onno Tunç, Tuna Ötenel, Levent Altindag , Imer Demirer, Misirli Ahmet and many others. As a co founder of the group “ Ritmistanbul” participated in the “Percussion Panorama Festival” Percpan in Salvador Bahia, Brazil, and in the Istanbul Jazz Festival. Recorded and performed several compositions for exhibitions in Istanbul Jazz critic Hülya Tunçag announced him as “one of the secret gems of Turkish jazz Music” https://www.turkishjazz.org/artist/murat-verdi

Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Björk, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Gato Barbieri, and Milton Nascimento. Vasconcelos was born in Recife, Brazil. Beginning from 1967 he joined many artists' works as a percussionist. Among his many collaborations, he contributed to four Jon Hassell albums from 1976 to 1980 (including Possible Musics by Brian Eno and Hassell), and later to several Pat Metheny Group works and Jan Garbarek concerts from early 1980s to early 1990s. In 1984 he appeared on the Pierre Favre album Singing Drums along with Paul Motian. He also appears on Arild Andersen's album If You Look Far Enough with Ralph Towner. He formed a group named Codona with Don Cherry and Collin Walcott, which released three albums in 1978, 1980 and 1982. Between 1984 and 1989, he was the Honorary President of the first samba school in the UK, the London School of Samba. In 1981 he performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio. In 1998, Vasconcelos contributed "Luz de Candeeiro" to the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the Red Hot Organization. Vasconcelos was awarded the Best Percussionist Of The Year by the Down Beat Critics Poll for seven consecutive years, from 1984 to 1990.[5] He was also honored with eight Grammy Awards. Vasconcelos was diagnosed with lung cancer in mid 2015. He died from the disease on 9 March 2016, in Recife. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan%C3%A1_Vasconcelos

Shuara (feat. Nana Vasconcelos)