This is "Maamme", the Finnish National Anthem in its very own Brazilian language Jazz Bossa tribute.

FREE download of the full music available on the link http://www.brasil.fi/maamme/

The idea came while I was teaching Brazilian language to my kids while they were teaching me Finnish. There is no law on an official national anthem in Finland, but Maamme is firmly established by convention. Composed by the German immigrant Fredrik Pacius, with (original Swedish) words by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, it was performed for the first time on 13 May 1848.

As a tribute, this song is available as public, free download at http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/ for everyone, but the copyrights and use permissions are required, please contact music@generare.com for that.

"The first time this work has been announced was during the Helsinki Samba Carnaval 2011 where Eduardo from the Brazilian Aeroplane band has been given the King of Carnaval task."

Enjoy!

Eduardo & the Brazilian Aeroplane

Lyrics: Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
Guitar: Esa Kauppinen
Engineer: Ricardo Padilla

"Maamme" - Brazilian Bossa Jazz of the Finnish National Anthem, Brazilian language

10) Nada (Ingenting Alls) - from the album "SIMETRIA: Bo Kasper in Brazil"
Music internationalization and localization by "Eduardo and his Brazilian Aeroplane" - Bossa Jazz - http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/
Now that the meltdown from 1 to 0 is running to its end the ten tracks of this album begin to coalesce around an ending which defines their unity. It is a hybridized unity, for in some regions, and for some people, Brazilian music has always resisted easy stereotypes. In tribute to the inspiration of one such person, the chameleonic João Bosco, the blues of the northwest, (unexpectedly) a rural adaptation on an imported Cuban tres, samba do partido alto and the chaplinesque all here combine.
Musicians:
Eduardo Domingues de Jesus -- Vocals
Anthony 'Toninho' Johnson -- Tres; violins
Anders Östling -- Electric guitar
Tane Kannisto -- Clarinets
Pekka Kolehmainen -- Bass
Jussi Mäkelä -- Percussion
Work developed and inspired on Bo Kaspers Orkester music.
All Portuguese Translations by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
All Arrangements by Anthony Johnson
Swedish language tutoring, logistics, Sanna Edelman
Produced by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus, Anthony Johnson
Recorded and mixed at Finnvox by Risto Hemmi
Mastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen
Helsinki, Finland 2010
Buy now online via Apple's iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/simetria-bo-kasper-in-brazil/id402208775

Nada (Ingenting alls) - short sample

09) Carta (Brev) - from the album "SIMETRIA: Bo Kasper in Brazil"
Music internationalization and localization by "Eduardo and his Brazilian Aeroplane" - Bossa Jazz - http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/
Then -- against the pulsing world of Pekka Kolehmainen's bass -- there's always the letter (whether to the lover lost, or the sixteen-year-old daughter languishing somewhere in another country). A letter which tries to submerge anxiety (or the endless parental 'what if?') beneath its concern for the particularities of an unknown place. Invoking the spirit of Gilberto Gil, we pray that the joy of afoxé and samba reggae may be upon them.
Musicians:
Eduardo Domingues de Jesus -- Vocals
Anthony 'Toninho' Johnson -- Nylon string guitar; violins
Anders Östling -- Electric guitar
Pekka Kolehmainen -- Bass
Juha Tanninen -- Drums; Percussion
Work developed and inspired on Bo Kaspers Orkester music.
All Portuguese Translations by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
All Arrangements by Anthony Johnson
Swedish language tutoring, logistics, Sanna Edelman
Produced by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus, Anthony Johnson
Recorded and mixed at Finnvox by Risto Hemmi
Mastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen
Helsinki, Finland 2010
Buy now online via Apple's iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/simetria-bo-kasper-in-brazil/id402208775

Carta (Brev) - short sample

08) Jamais morreremos (Vi kommer aldrig att dö) - from the album "SIMETRIA: Bo Kasper in Brazil"
Music internationalization and localization by "Eduardo and his Brazilian Aeroplane" - Bossa Jazz - http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/
We all live against death. We all aspire. This setting of what is arguably the Bo Kaspers Orkester's greatest piece can do little more than nod in homage to the depth of their achievement. But if that nod also glances at Caetano Veloso, or if the string quartet (the "flores do maracatu") sometimes take on the figures of candomblé percussion and the role of the ialorixá in their efforts to bring down the gods -- all is done in affirmation of the continuities and symmetries which still persist between European music and its Brazilian transformation.
Musicians:
Eduardo Domingues de Jesus -- Vocals
Anthony 'Toninho' Johnson -- Nylon string guitar
Anders Östling -- Electric guitar
Tane Kannisto -- Tenor saxophone
'Flores do Maracatu' -- String Quartet
Anita Virkkala -- 1st Violin
Laura Kangas -- 2nd Violin
Johanna Tuikka -- Viola
Riina Seebeck -- Cello
Quartet pre-recorded by Kari Kuivamäki and pre-produced by Anthony Johnson at Toivoniemen Äänisauna studios, Oulu
Work developed and inspired on Bo Kaspers Orkester music.
All Portuguese Translations by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
All Arrangements by Anthony Johnson
Swedish language tutoring, logistics, Sanna Edelman
Produced by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus, Anthony Johnson
Recorded and mixed at Finnvox by Risto Hemmi
Mastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen
Helsinki, Finland 2010
Buy now online via Apple's iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/simetria-bo-kasper-in-brazil/id402208775

Jamais morreremos (Vi kommer aldrig att dö) - short sample

07) Dança do paraíso (Dansa på min grav) - from the album "SIMETRIA: Bo Kasper in Brazil"
Music internationalization and localization by "Eduardo and his Brazilian Aeroplane" - Bossa Jazz - http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/
To dance on one's grave in Sweden may be more like dancing in Paradise in Brazil. Either way, anyone who manages to break out of the trammels which keep them robotically serving the dictates of a system which has gone beyond human control deserves (as here, over the rhythm of Fabio's 7-string guitar) a chorinho to be danced in their honour.
Musicians:
Eduardo Domingues de Jesus -- Vocals
Anthony 'Toninho' Johnson -- Violins; baritone violin
Fabio Oliveira -- 7-string guitar; cavaquinho
Olga Shishkina -- Piano; Kantele
Tane Kannisto -- Flute
Pekka Kolehmainen -- Bass
Juha Tanninen -- Drums, Percussion: pandeiro and triangle
Work developed and inspired on Bo Kaspers Orkester music.
All Portuguese Translations by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
All Arrangements by Anthony Johnson
Swedish language tutoring, logistics, Sanna Edelman
Produced by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus, Anthony Johnson
Recorded and mixed at Finnvox by Risto Hemmi
Mastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen
Helsinki, Finland 2010
Buy now online via Apple's iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/simetria-bo-kasper-in-brazil/id402208775

Dança do paraíso (Dansa på min grav)

06) Aquele que você quis (En man du tyckte om) - from the album "SIMETRIA: Bo Kasper in Brazil"
Music internationalization and localization by "Eduardo and his Brazilian Aeroplane" - Bossa Jazz - http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/
Memories of the Carnival in Pernambuco, the teaching of relationships passed, passing, or to come: and a man you used to like. This music -- ringing with the poignancy of Anders Östling's guitar -- choreographs a marcha rancho for the seasons of our love.
Musicians::
Eduardo Domingues de Jesus -- Vocals
Anthony 'Toninho' Johnson -- Acoustic guitar; violins
Anders Östling -- Electric guitar
Pekka Kolehmainen -- Bass
Juha Tanninen -- Drums
Work developed and inspired on Bo Kaspers Orkester music.
All Portuguese Translations by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
All Arrangements by Anthony Johnson
Swedish language tutoring, logistics, Sanna Edelman
Produced by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus, Anthony Johnson
Recorded and mixed at Finnvox by Risto Hemmi
Mastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen
Helsinki, Finland 2010
Buy now online via Apple's iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/simetria-bo-kasper-in-brazil/id402208775

Aquele que você quis (En man du tyckte om) - short sample

05) Antes que tudo suma (Innan allt försvinner) - from the album "SIMETRIA: Bo Kasper in Brazil"
Music internationalization and localization by "Eduardo and his Brazilian Aeroplane" - Bossa Jazz - http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/
For some, however, life is not so simple. The narrator in this song is a man whose life with a wife, and kids, in a rented flat is just about to disappear. The ache of loss, the irresolution of separation, the desire to feel no regrets, and the grim determination to stay on top of the world here circle round, like Jussi Mäkelä's maracatu-laden rhythm which spins out below them, in the strangely static tensions experienced by someone treading water in that last moment before the change. Re-enacting these tensions in the soundscape of this song our saxophonist Tane Kannisto reminds us of the range of tones and moods her captured over the years of his work with Edward Vesala's band.
Musicians:
Eduardo Domingues de Jesus -- Vocals
Anthony 'Toninho' Johnson -- Guitars; violins
Tane Kannisto -- Flute; soprano saxophone
Jussi Mäkelä -- Percussion
Work developed and inspired on Bo Kaspers Orkester music.
All Portuguese Translations by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
All Arrangements by Anthony Johnson
Swedish language tutoring, logistics, Sanna Edelman
Produced by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus, Anthony Johnson
Recorded and mixed at Finnvox by Risto Hemmi
Mastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen
Helsinki, Finland 2010
Buy now online via Apple's iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/simetria-bo-kasper-in-brazil/id402208775

Antes que tudo suma (Innan allt försvinner) - short sample

04) No fundo do copo (I botten på glaset) - from the album "SIMETRIA: Bo Kasper in Brazil"
Music internationalization and localization by "Eduardo and his Brazilian Aeroplane" - Bossa Jazz - http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/
From the bottom of a glass things can sometimes feel pretty mellow. In the same way that the Bo Kaspers original captured the sound of nameless originals before it, so our arrangement travels back in search of the purity of bossa nova in the 1960s. We dedicate this arrangement to the memory of hearing João Gilberto for the first time and raise a glass to his daughter, Bebel, who has carried on the tradition with such creativity.
Musicians:
Eduardo Domingues de Jesus - Vocals
Anthony 'Toninho' Johnson -- Nylon string guitar
Anders Östling -- Electric guitar
Juha Tanninen -- Percussion: shaker
Work developed and inspired on Bo Kaspers Orkester music.
All Portuguese Translations by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
All Arrangements by Anthony Johnson
Swedish language tutoring, logistics, Sanna Edelman
Produced by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus, Anthony Johnson
Recorded and mixed at Finnvox by Risto Hemmi
Mastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen
Helsinki, Finland 2010
Buy now online via Apple's iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/simetria-bo-kasper-in-brazil/id402208775

No fundo do copo (I botten på glaset) - short sample

03) Vai melhorar (Det blir bättre sen) - from the album "SIMETRIA: Bo Kasper in Brazil"
Music internationalization and localization by "Eduardo and his Brazilian Aeroplane" - Bossa Jazz - http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/
The rapid transition from the culture of the Amazon to that of the city is shadowed here in the progression from the Carimbó rhythm of Juha Tanninen's drums or the Cataretê of the xequerê into the cruising samba of the chorus, bustling with the new tribalism of the city: Cataretê being a rhythm that the incoming slaves learned from the native tribes and Carimbó, a rhythm that the slaves gave in return. With such beauty in the midst of things everything (someday) will surely be O.K.! It is a tribute to the diversity of Brazil that such primal and hothouse environments can flourish from the same soil.
Musicians:
Eduardo Domingues de Jesus - Vocals
Anthony 'Toninho' Johnson -- Electric guitar; steel string acoustic guitar; violins
Fabio Oliveira -- Nylon string guitar
Babak Reza -- Santur
Olga Shishkina -- Kanteles
Pekka Kolehmainen -- Bass
Jussi Mäkelä -- Percussion: pandeiro, surdo, tamburine
Juha Tanninen -- Drums; Percussion, shakers, bells
Work developed and inspired on Bo Kaspers Orkester music.
All Portuguese Translations by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
All Arrangements by Anthony Johnson
Swedish language tutoring, logistics, Sanna Edelman
Produced by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus, Anthony Johnson
Recorded and mixed at Finnvox by Risto Hemmi
Mastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen
Helsinki, Finland 2010
Buy now online via Apple's iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/simetria-bo-kasper-in-brazil/id402208775

Vai melhorar (Det Blir Bättre Sen) - short sample

02) Ela é tão linda quando dorme (Hon är så söt) - from the album "SIMETRIA: Bo Kasper in Brazil"
Music internationalization and localization by "Eduardo and his Brazilian Aeroplane" - Bossa Jazz - http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/
The dream of her sweetness mediated through the music of the North East. Barravento, the magical rhythm of entry into trance, interfused with the joy of xote group interfacing with a jazz band. As well as celebrating Sivuca and the sound of the sanfona (the Brazilian accordion), this track possibly marks the first occurrence in a north-eastern Brazilian context of the kantele (with its berimbau-like bends and curves) played here by the mestra Olga Shishkina. As Bo Sundström's original lyrics remind us, such a vision is almost too good to be true.
Musicians:
Eduardo Domingues de Jesus - Vocals
Anthony 'Toninho' Johnson -- Electric guitar; guitar-mandolin
Fabio Oliveira -- Nylon string guitar
Johanna Juhola -- Accordion
Olga Shishkina -- Kantele
Tane Kannisto -- Tenor saxophone
Pekka Kolehmainen -- Bass
Jussi Mäkelä -- Percussion: shekere
Juha Tanninen -- Drums; Percussion: uru
Work developed and inspired on Bo Kaspers Orkester music.
All Portuguese Translations by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
All Arrangements by Anthony Johnson
Swedish language tutoring, logistics, Sanna Edelman
Produced by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus, Anthony Johnson
Recorded and mixed at Finnvox by Risto Hemmi
Mastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen
Helsinki, Finland 2010
Buy now online via Apple's iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/simetria-bo-kasper-in-brazil/id402208775

Ela é tão linda quando dorme (Hon är så söt) - short sample

01) Zero e um (Ett och noll) - from the album "SIMETRIA: Bo Kasper in Brazil"
Music internationalization and localization by "Eduardo and his Brazilian Aeroplane" - Bossa Jazz - http://www.brazilianaeroplane.com/
Zero and one. To bounce between certainty or uncertainty. To enter into the calculus of human complexity. From the hard-won joys of the North to the affluent uncertainties of Rio, from Baião to Samba, this song charts the differences between the things we have, the things we think we have, and all those things we hope to have (a good relationship being paramount among them). Are you going with me?
Musicians::
Eduardo Domingues de Jesus -- Vocals
Anthony 'Toninho' Johnson -- Nylon string guitar; electric guitar; violins; baritone violin
Fabio Oliveira -- 7-string guitar
Olga Shishkina -- Kantele
Pekka Kolehmainen -- Bass
Jussi Mäkelä -- Percussion
Juha Tanninen -- Drums
Mikko Laiho -- Choir
(Pre-recorded and mixed by Leri Leskinen and Tommi Vainikainen, Helsinki)
Work developed and inspired on Bo Kaspers Orkester music.
All Portuguese Translations by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus
All Arrangements by Anthony Johnson
Swedish language tutoring, logistics, Sanna Edelman
Produced by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus, Anthony Johnson
Recorded and mixed at Finnvox by Risto Hemmi
Mastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen
Helsinki, Finland 2010
Buy now online via Apple's iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/simetria-bo-kasper-in-brazil/id402208775

Zero e um (Ett och noll) 2010 Remastered - short sample

Eduardo & his Brazilian Aeroplane

"Brazilian Aeroplane" is a band with a multi-national history and fame. Piloted by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus in São Paulo, Brazil, many years ago it was test-driven in Milan, where Eduardo supplemented his Fine Arts studies by singing classic bossa nova and jazz grooves. When love for technology brought Eduardo to Finland, he kept the playing going anyway, singing and reshaping his projects, crew and ideas. The band assumed a special form when the Aeroplane hired Anthony Johnson as co-pilot, taking to the air many times: working with different crews of great musicians. Anthony ("Toninho") brought his talents as an arranger, a violinist and as a guitar player to the band, merging his British background with a deep love of Brazilian rhythms in order to produce fresh-sounding arrangements of works by artists as diverse as J. Karjalainen, Anna Hanski, Heikki Sarmanto and Bo Kasper. The current band complements Eduardo and Toninho with a core of top-class players, and performances by (among others) Anders Östling on electric guitar, Fabio Oliveira on its 6 and 7 string classical guitar, and Olga Shishkina on 39-string kantele and gusli. Jussi Mäkelä and Juha Tanninen are responsible for the percussion and drums while Pekka Kolehmainen underpins everything with his solid bass lines. While having really a lot of fun, Eduardo leads a meticulous, patient, industrious and continuous work of music research internationalizing the music of popular artists of different countries and idioms into its Brazilian mother language and music styles. His Brazilian Aeroplane test drove its first flights on cloudy and snowy clouds having Finland as its environment while preparing the campaigns in other countries as Sweden, Brazil and hopefully the international arenas. Remarkable results were seen at once at the first weeks of its SIMETRIA album launch: first place at top ten iTunes Jazz list for Finland and also first place at top 550 CDBaby list for Brazilian Pop. The sky looks clear with no clouds and lots of winds of love, fasten your seat belts!

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