BAAL DES QUAT'Z'ARTS 
IS A BRAZILIAN CROSSOVER BAND UNDER MUSICAL DIRECTION BY OTACÍLIO MELGAÇO 

contact: baaldes4arts@gmail.com

"S o u n d s A n d 
(S u b d i) V i s i o n s"

Baal des Quat'z'arts is a resonant kaleidoscope. Rarely a multi-artist gets to accomplish such a cubist music! Sounds are projected of unexpected retreats, everything becomes a house of mirrors. In the creations of the band - the poet's words are justified in a deafening way, deafening transcendence originating from Joy and (the axiom becomes unfailing): 'Beauty is' really 'a Joy forever!' 
(Caio Campbell; Anglo-Brazilian semiologist and musician) 

"T h e S k e t c h O f A n 
I m p e r t i n e n t P r o l o g u e"

'I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.' The Langston's words echo in my mind when I try to describe Baal des Quat'z'arts and their creations ... Pristine footprints towards unimaginable places ... Baal is the name of a controversial divinity ... Besides noises, silences, musical notes; O.M. grafts paradoxes, symbolisms and palimpsests in the womb of their music ... If the divinity (that inspired a part of the band name) could come in this context, maybe would - plathian - alert us: 'I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike I am not cruel, only truthful — The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.' Maybe passing through the compasses and over the steel points will go nothing except Baal des Quat'z'arts and Universe Drunks and To-morrow ...' 
(O.K., artist and producer) 


"A p p e n d i x & 
M e l t i n g P o t" 

A'capella, acousmatic/tapemusic, acoustic, bluegrass, bossa nova, classic rock, classical, club, concrete, down-tempo, drum & bass, dub, electroacoustic, emo, flamenco, folk, folk rock, fusion, garage, glam, gothic, industrial, jazz, lounge, minimalist, pop, punk, post-punk, psychedelic, tango, trip hop, visual ...: some styles embraced by the band ... "When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee ... The smoke of my own breath; echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine; my respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air throughmy lungs ...: the Baalian music that flows inside and out of me."
(Omar Khadji/W.W.) 


"M e m b e r s"

O.M.
(conception, compositions, arrangements, conduction, all instruments and voices) 
&
GUESTS

"E Baal era um deus do início dos tempos, tempo em que o bem não havia se separado do mal e tanto o bem como o mal existiam no mesmo deus. Baal tinha duas faces numa só cabeça. Numa face havia amor e na outra ódio. Enquanto amor mirava o Norte ódio fitava o Sul. E logo ódio estava a Norte e amor a Sul, pois, a cabeça girava continuamente. Com uma mão Baal semeava maná e com a outra praga. Eu vi o ciclo dos tempos se fechando." E, agora, se abrindo...


"I n f l u e n c e s"

The sounds that take us away
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בָּעַלorبعلorבעלתorבַּעֲלָה!


"S i m i l a r(?)"

The nakedness of a petal - sometimes.. the mutation originating from the storms - other times ...
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Le Quat'z'arts Cabaret! 

... a new pitcher for a new wine! 

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