Another track of the "Capitão Nemo no Forró de Todos os Santos" album (1999), this composition is an attempt to play with several influences, I'd say that there are ideas here in a range from Ornette Coleman to Bocato, as also as solutions of my own. At the time of the album's release, Arrigo Barnabé told me he enjoyed the complexity of the composition, in which a bass line loop in 7/4 time develops over a drumbeat in 2/2. Thus the rhythm floats very interestingly, and several soloists improvise together, in a kind of Mingus workshop smooth collective chaos. I also like the guitar sound on the melody, which reminds me of Pepeu Gomes's best recordings, with strong and precise picking work with the distorted guitar. People are: me on guitar and GR-50 guitar synth; Rogerio Rochlitz on keyboards; Bocato on trombone; Luiz Claudio Faria on trumpet; Giba Silva Pinto, bass; André Magalhães, drums. Paulo Campos and Manny Monteiro played the tamborins, also. I hope you enjoy!  

Capitão Nemo

Hello,
I'm Sergio Basbaum. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1964, of Jewish leftist parents, I started to play guitar when I was 11. I guess I just could do something resembling music when I was around 13 or something.  I was then living in Rio de Janeiro with my family, and started to get really involved with music, studying theory, harmony and other things. So, when I was 16 I had decided I'd like to be a professional musician. I came back to São Paulo, where I had many friends who were playing, commited to be a good jazz guitarrist, and had several different teachers, in jazz harmony, improvisation, arranging, composition, whatever there was to study. Around 1985 I was doing interesting gigs and was more or less known in the Sao Paulo scene. However, I couldn't make no money! (ok, there was a lot of crazyness going on those days....). So by the early 1990s I decided to go into college to study Cinema, and got a Bachelor's degree. And then, I got a master degree in Comunications and Semiotics, and eventually became a college teacher -- something I had never planned! This was in the same year when I issued my first album, "Capitao Nemo no Forró de Todos os Santos", a work you will find here, and which I still enjoy -- with more than 20 guest musicians helping me give life to compositions and arrangements. But things went well in the university, I made a doctorate also in C&S, and became an interdisciplinar researcher, dealing with amazing questions of art, technology and perception, really fascinating and contemporary stuff. I even made Post-Doc in Philosophy! As years passed, and a lot of water passed under the briddge, I started to play regularly again, and I have issued a second album in 2012 -- an album of songs, with great friends as very special guests. You can listen to those songs here as also. In the last three years or so, I also began to develop audiovisual performances with diferent teams -- you can find some of them in the links in this page. So, I'm happy with music and art again, and I hope music and art lovers may find pleasure in the sounds I make. Best vibes for you, friend!    

Capitão Nemo

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