#codona

(via The Brazilian Sound: Naná Vasconcelos: Storytelling with Percussion)

Don Says: This wave and that wave, I feel now it's an all-wave music that's happening. The naturalness of music is what I want to be involved in. It's like the instruments are playing us and they're working with overtones and the idea is the swing of it. We're really creating a nice new boogie.

EG is someone I've been aware of for probably 20 years, mostly as someone who made at least one record with Charlie Haden in the early 2000s, when I was starting to get obsessively into jazz and ECM Records, but I had no idea what he did/does, or even what instrument he plays, and it wasn't until I started taking chances on curious-looking ECM LPs at a nearby used record store that I started to rub up against his actual presence on records. It turns out he's primarily a guitarist, nylon string for the most part (and here, and 8-string one), but he also plays piano and also likes to throw in vocals, wood flutes, and other small instruments, and has a bit more of a folk music vibe generally, rather that overt jazziness. This album is a mixed bag of him playing with a variety of ECM regulars like Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner, Nana Vasconcelos, and Colin Walcott (I'm a fan of Oregon, too, which features RT and CW, and also Codona, which features NV and CW alongside good ol' Don Cherry), so it was likely going to be a good listen, and it was, although my attention was not fully focused on it, so while I liked what I heard, I definitely need to revisit; a promising introduction to EG's work as a leader.

Ese Organic Music Theatre fue una comunidad errante de artistas de diferentes géneros y nacionalidades de espíritu participativo con respecto al público y a los niños en concreto.

This box contains the three mysterious albums by the all-acoustic trio whose members were multi-instrumentalists Collin Walcott, Don Cherry, and Naná Vasconcelos. Codona are not often spoken of for their groundbreaking approach in melding world folk traditions to improvisation and jazz, but they were at the very forefront. Silence, space, interplay, compositional and improvisational discipline, and a sense of humor and playfulness mark these recordings as indispensable parts of the ECM catalog.   - Thom Jurek

CODONA live in New York                  La Cueva Boreal                                                                                                                                                                           CODONA live in New York, 1984. - Collin Walcott: sitar, tabla, dulcimer, sanza, voz... - Don Cherry: trompeta, organo, flautas, dossn'gouni, melodica, voz... - Nana Vasconcelos: percusiones, berimbau, cuica, voz..

(via The Brazilian Sound: Naná Vasconcelos: Storytelling with Percussion)