Around the Town, by Cafe Do Choro

Around the Town

by Cafe Do Choro

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Cafe Do Choro debut album - cover features beautiful original artwork by Jason Bell from his travels in Brazil

Includes unlimited streaming of Around the Town via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Physical CD or DL download. Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. *Plus full sheet music charts and transcriptions.

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1.	Brincalhão/Playful, Trickster 05:32	buy track
2.	If Only (Se Somente) 05:39	buy track
3.	Around the Town 03:01	buy track
4.	Agitado/Agitated (Batman no Rio) 03:10	buy track
5.	Petulância/Petulance 02:40	buy track
6.	Glide & Spin 04:30	buy track
7.	Apresse, Apresse/Hurry, Hurry! 02:20	buy track
8.	Into the Night 05:43	buy track
9.	If Only (TDO version - Live at the Brisbane Jazz Club) 05:13	buy track
10.	Meu Cavalinho de Carrossel/My Little Carousel Pony 04:55	buy track

about

'Café do Choro' is a studio project based around original compositions and arrangements in the Brazilian musical style called Choro by Brisbane musician Jenni Bell.

Choro (pronounced ‘shorrow’ to rhyme with borrow - literally ‘Cry’) is a popular Brazilian musical style which began in the mid-late 19th Century, originally played in cafés and salons in Rio de Janeiro, where accomplished musicians gathered to play into the early hours simply for the joy of making music together.

Typical instruments: guitar, seven string guitar (sete cordas), flute, cavaquinho (a miniature four-stringed guitar) and pandeiro, a tambourine-like percussion instrument that mimics a drum-kit. Various others including accordion, bandolim (Brazilian mandolin), violin, piccolo, clarinet, and melodica are also used.

Highly varied and often quite virtuosic, Choro draws from many influences including popular dance styles, Classical, Jazz, Ragtime and Folkloric music. Its syncopated, sometimes uneven rhythms hark back to African beats. Choro is a ‘musical magpie’, pinching from many different sources, including other Choros - don’t be surprised if you hear snatches of familiar tunes.

Nowadays Choro is enjoying great popularity both in Brazil and around the world, and ‘Rodas’ (Circles) or ‘Chorinhos’ (little Choro get-togethers) can be found worldwide. New tunes are constantly being written, with composers incorporating their own unique flavours and influences.

Influences: Pixinguinha, Jacob do Bandolim, Hermeto Pascoal, Dudu Maia

*Jacinta Sinu is Jenni's Brazilian penname

*facebook: www.facebook.com/cafedochoro/

* Brisbane 'Roda de Choro' group: www.facebook.com/groups/489396801095978

credits

released August 4, 2016

Album credits: Jenni Bell: flute, piccolo, violin, melodica
Eddie Gazani: Guitar, Cavaquinho, Seven string guitar (Sete Cordas)
Kay Sullivan: Accordion (Sanfona)
Jason Bell: Pandeiro, ganza/shakers, agogo, reco-reco, shells, tan-tan, tambourim
Mircha Mangiacotti: Guitar on 3, 5 & 10
Daniel Robbins: Guitar on 6
Claudio Caracol: Pandeiro on 6

Track 9 - String and Flute arrangement by Peter Freeman from string quartet arrangement by Jenni Bell. Violin: Rebecca Karlen, Christopher Gillespie; Flute: Sandy Chou; Viola: Bethan Lewis; Cello: Alex Jamieson.
Recorded live at Brisbane Jazz Club by Mark Smith for Real Productions

Produced & directed by Jenni Bell
All songs composed & arranged by Jenni Bell
Recorded at Brisbane Voice & Music Studios voiceandmusicstudio.com by Eddie Gazani
Mix & Master: Peter Freeman
Cover Illustration & Design: Jason Bell
Disc Chalk Art: johnbelltype.com
Photos: José Augusto, Jenni Bell, Jason Bell
Studio Photos: Jenni Bell, Cecile Goode

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about

Café do Choro Brisbane, Australia

Raised in an artistically rich, multicultural environment in outer Melbourne, Jenni Bell studied violin and arranging at VCA, later moving to Brisbane where she has played various styles.

Joining Brisbane Roda de Choro in 2012, she began writing Choros soon after.

Cafe Do Choro players are all members of this vibrant collective. ... more