Duas Vozes is an album by Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist 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...

 and percussionist Naná Vasconcelos

Naná Vasconcelos

Naná Vasconcelos is a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, most notable for his works with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismonti, and Gato Barbieri....

 recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label. The album follows the duo's 1977 collaboration Dança Das Cabeças

Dança Das Cabeças

Dança Das Cabeças is an album by Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist Egberto Gismonti recorded in 1976 and released on the ECM label. The album was Gismonti's first for the European label which established the beginnings of a long and productive association.-Reception:The Allmusic review by...

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Alvaro Neder awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Egberto is very fond of percussive attacks and ethereal configurations, both acquiring superior importance in his music, not being necessarily attached to or supportive for a musical theme or melody".

Track listing

All compositions by Egberto Gismonti except as indicated

1. "Aquarela do Brasil
   Aquarela do Brasil
   "Aquarela do Brasil" , known in the English-speaking world simply as "Brazil", is one of the most famous Brazilian songs of all time, written by Ary Barroso in 1939.-Background and composition:...
   
   " (Ary Barroso
   Ary Barroso
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   ) - 6:01
2. "Rio de Janeiro" - 6:27
3. "Tomarapeba" (Traditional) - 3:42
4. "Dancando" - 7:55
5. "Fogueira" - 5:52
6. "Bianca" - 6:41
7. "Don Quixote" (G. E. Carneiro, Gismonti) - 7:41
8. "O Dia, À Noite" (Naná Vasconcelos) - 3:52
   • Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in June 1984

Personnel

• 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...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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  , piano
  Piano
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  , dilruba, wood flutes
  Flute
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  , voice
  Voice
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• Naná Vasconcelos
  Naná Vasconcelos
  Naná Vasconcelos is a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, most notable for his works with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismonti, and Gato Barbieri....
  
   - percussion, berimbau
  Berimbau
  The berimbau is a single-string percussion instrument, a musical bow, from Brazil. The berimbau's origins are not entirely clear, but there is not much doubt about its African origin, as no Indigenous Brazilian or European people use musical bows, and very similar instruments are played in the...
  
  , voice