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Written in fRoots issue 237, 2003


GAITEIROS DE LISBOA
Macaréu
Aduf 02 A 001 (2002)

Another inventive release from the Gaiteiros, making new music using and adding to a wide range Portuguese traditions, vocal and instrumental sounds: Alentejo-style deep, grainy masculine vocal harmonies and rap-like dialogues, with not a hint of the obvious in the sounds or arrangements.
      They use no mainstream instrumental combinations; instead a rich ensemble of rattling, clattering, twanging and thumping percussion, French horn, bamboo, woodwind, reed instruments including a variety of bagpipes, and invented or evolved instruments including splendidly convoluted blown or hit constructions of plastic tubes.
      The flow of the band’s appearance in the Atlantic Waves series at London’s South Bank late last year was somewhat lumpy, with plenty of high points and agreeable droll introductions but looking like it could use a directorial eye on its overall sequencing. The album, though, as with its equally recommended predecessors Invasões Bárbaras and Bocas De Inferno, is a beautifully integrated, strongly swingy flow of the unexpected.


© 2003 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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