SOUNDTRACK: FABIANO DO NASCIMENTO-Tiny Desk (Home) Concert #43 (July 2, 2020).
Fabiano Do Nascimento was born in Brazil and now lives in L.A. he is an amazing guitar player, creating gorgeous soundscapes–‘an amalgamation of Afro-Brazilian jazz, folklore, bossanova and samba.”
For the first piece, “Nanã,” he plays what I think is a 10 string guitar (the fretboard is so wide!). he starts a lovely melody and then the screen splits into four. David Bergaud adds quiet piano and Julien Cantelm adds some complex drum patterns. The fourth quarter is Fabiano again (it took me a moment to realize it, because he is in a different room). He plays a lead guitar melody on a tiny ten stringed guitar.
The combination of his overdubbed rhythmic and melodic guitar lines, coupled with the delicate hands of piano player David Bergaud and drummer Julien Cantelm … flow into the first number, “Nanã,” a folkloric composition that “is the spirit that comes from African lineage and represents the forest … and is the primordial mother of earth.”
Up next is “Etude,” a composition by Fabiano inspired by Cuban classical guitar virtuoso Leo Brouwer.
For this piece, he switches to a six string guitar. He has a different accompaniment. Adam Ratner plays electric guitar (quietly) and Leo Costa play a some great complex drum (and cymbal) patterns as well as the chocalho.
Both Fabiano and Adam play leads, slow jazzy, pretty, while thr drums really do take much of the action.
Fabiano expresses
love for his motherland Brazil — an “endless foundation of inspiration” — is threaded deeply into the tapestry of his sound and ethos. If you’re looking for a musical moment of zen, this set comes highly recommended.
The final piece “Tributo” is a tribute to Brazilian composer Baden Powell de Aquino. This piece is for solo guitar.
[READ: June 20, 2020] Make Your Bed
My son completed a leadership training course for the Boy Scouts and he was given this book as a gift. I was intrigued by the title and because I like the guy who gave it to my son, so I thought I;d read it.
It’s a fast and easy read and I think a younger person (this was originally a college commencement address) could be inspired by it. I’m a little too set in my ways t make many changes (although I have made sure my bed has been made ever since reading this).
The book is set up in ten chapters: the ten points that he made during the speech. Each chapter gives a suggestion. It is followed by the practical origin of that suggestion and then a more intense incident in life in which he used that suggestion. (more…)