 Vitor Gonçalves, Bernardo Ramos, Josué Lopez, Bruno Aguilar, have acquired a great breadth of experience in Brazilian music. Having won an array of awards, they've already collaborated with great figures such as Hermeto Pascoal, Dominguinhos, Naná Vasconcelos, Itiberê Zwarg, Djavan, Arismar do Espírito Santo and Hamilton de Holanda.

   In this meeting of kinship, Bamboo is the result of the melding of their particular histories. On their first album, "Bamboo," that was released by the label Brasilianos, the composers, instrumentalists and arrangers present a body of work replete with references from the roots of Brazilian music to vanguard jazz and classical music.
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   Vitor Gonçalves , Josué Lopez, Bruno Aguilar, Bernardo Ramos e Alex Buck têm um vasto caminho percorrido na música brasileira. Diversas vezes premiados, já atuaram junto a grandes nomes como Hermeto Pascoal, Dominguinhos, Naná Vasconcelos, Itiberê Zwarg, Djavan, Arismar do Espírito Santo e Hamilton de Holanda.

   O Bamboo é a consequência do cruzamento dessas histórias num encontro de extrema afinidade. No primeiro disco do grupo, "Bamboo", que foi lançado lançado pelo selo Brasilianos, os compositores, instrumentistas e arranjadores apresentam um trabalho autoral repleto de referências, que vão das raízes da música brasileira ao jazz de vanguarda e a música clássica.




Nothing is pure. Rebel yourself.
Célia Mara makes music with a big smile.
Singing about new, interesting times.

Célia Mara is a Brazilian artist, born and grown up in the Vale de Jequitinhonhas (Minas Gerais). Now, she is living mostly in Vienna, Austria and sometimes in Salvador, Bahia - tuning the world with her Bastard Sound and presenting a new approach to Brazilian Diaspora music.
Célia Mara sings, plays, composes and arranges. She is a bandleader and a solo artist, a 21st. century singer - songwriter,
a real Brazilian groove lady, a jazz singer full of emotion,
a screaming rock star, a sensual seduction, a funky entertainer…
And she’s always carrying a message for peace and social justice with her …
Célia Mara’s charismatic voice, her strong compositions, the eclectic, but typically Brazilian mixture and the edgy electro-arrangements pushed her latest albums Santa Rebeldia and bastardista among the headliners of „Global Bricolagistas:
Los de Abajo, DJ Dolores, Manu Chao and Mariam and Amadou, Zuco 103, Celia Mara, Ojos de Brujo and Zuba were just a few of the names that grabbed our attention in a year when the world said no to globalization and yes to global music culture mash up.“
Damian Rafferty / fly-global music culture, UK

Célia got an export award -„Copa da Cultura“ - from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, the albums were among the Top of the European World Music Charts and ranked in between the “best of the year, best of the week” selections in different countries. Célia was also awarded for her social and cultural work with the Herta Pammer Preis in Austria and selected Austrias best world music artist…

Célia Mara is certainly one of the most impressing latin front-ladies living between Brazil & Central Europe… Her passionate singing has led Healer Selecta, of the United Kingdom’s reason2b, to label her as “the best Brazilian international underground artist.” For spontaneous live sessions, Célia’s bastard sound attracted as great artists as Joe Zawinul, Konstantin Wecker, Amparo Sanchez (Amparanoia), Olodum, Think of One, Magou & Dakar Transit or Reggaeman Lazzo Matumbi…

Célia Mara band performed during the last years between hyped clubs in London, Moscow or Prag, in prestigious concert halls like the famous Vienna Opera House or the national palace of culture in Sofia. She played at huge Reggae-, Jazz-, Groove- or World Music festivals throughout Europe, was invited to Latin Americas biggest festival, Ollin Kan in Mexico City, she presented her songs on “fightin‘ for a better world”-mega open airs in Berlin or even rocked a soccer field in Croatia.
www.celiamara.net

Vocalist Kellylee Evans continues to evolve her distinctive sound with her newest release Nina. This Juno and Gemini Award nominee received accolades for her first two albums, Fight or Flight and The Good Girl, which seamlessly fuse jazz and her own unique style of "soul pop". Nina, her new release, is a beautiful tribute to one of jazz's greatest vocalists and pianists, Nina Simone.

The Canadian singer was approached by French label Plus Loin Music, who had discovered her through her 2nd place win at the Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocals Competition. After several years of discussion, they invited her to France in November of 2009, where she spent two days in the studio. "They said I could do whatever I wanted as long as it was standards" Evans recalls. "I had always wanted to do a Nina Simone tribute. She was one of my mom's favourites, and my husband's, and I love her too. So I chose her and they were really gung ho."

Evans' love and respect for the original recordings of the music shines through, but, even in taking on some of Simone's most iconic repertoire, the twelve tracks on the album showcase Kelly's own versatility, creativity and innate musicality. She is reunited with guitarist Marvin Sewell (Jason Moran, Cassandra Wilson), who appeared on her first album, and joined by bassist François Moutin (Moutin Reunion Quartet, Rudresh Mahanthappa), and drummer André Ceccarelli (Dee Dee Bridgewater, Biréli Lagrène).


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