Forest Stories

 
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Tania Giannouli / Paulo Chagas
Forest Stories

[ Rattle Records / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 14 December 2012

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Improvisations, silences, avant-garde, modern 20th century music, jazz, classical, world, the meeting of cultures (Greek and Portuguese), conflicting emotions, introspection and anguish, the penumbra of the forest, mystery and magic, Forest Stories is something of a touchstone for music that aspires to move beyond genre. Tania Giannouli and Paulo Chagas not only have the musical and technical facility for the implicit challenges of this kind of exploratory music, but more importantly they have the very necessary emotional and spiritual strength. Forest Stories gives the listener ample room to draw their own parallels and make their own associations, and album rich in the texture and atmosphere of journey's through unfamiliar landscapes.

"There is no need to play a lot of notes in order to make exciting music - the secret is to choose the right ones. That is what Giannouli and Chagas achieve with Forest Stories, an album of beautiful, impressionistic pieces that allow us to see that musical construction should be made in harmony with silence. The music on this album has great simplicity and clarity, sometimes pastoral, other times energetic, but always harmonious to the ear. I predict that Forest Stories will become a "must have" for fans of contemplative avant-garde." - João Pedro Viegas, Musician, Musical Programmer and reviewer at All Jazz, Jazz.pt, TomaJazz, and Oro Molido

Tracks:

Step by step (5:45)
Afternoon forest valse (5:32)
This beautiful hard way (5:16)
Is this forever? (6:11)
Instead of clouds (5:46)
Spring's chronic (12:02)
In the deepest night (5:04)
The way back home (5:06)