The newest launch by the Bahian maestro Letieres Leite competes in two classes on the 2023 Brazilian Music Award. Rumpilezz) and Finest Instrumental Launch (Letieres, Sylvio Fraga and Pepê Monnerat, music producers).
Letieres was a sufferer of Covid-19 on the age of 61, in October 2021. “Letieres was a revolutionary, each in music and in his anti-racist combat. to place them into follow as an instrumentalist, arranger and trainer, is unparalleled. He was an avant-garde artist deeply rooted in his ancestry”, feedback musician and poet Sylvio Fraga, a good friend of Letieres and creative director of Rocinante.
The album was recorded at Rocinante’s studio in Araras, within the mountainous area of Rio de Janeiro, which underwent renovations to accommodate the maestro and his 20 musicians. The work got here to life on vinyl, with 7 tracks. Among the many particular appearances, names like Caetano Veloso, Raul de Souza (trombone), Joander Cruz (alto saxophone) and Marcelo Martins (tenor saxophone).
Letieres died shortly after the album was blended, however he heard the final tune in Salvador, through videoconference. The Rocinante file label anticipates that there are different unpublished initiatives by Letieres within the finalization course of that can quickly add to the already unavoidable legacy of the maestro.
Award
The good variety and plurality of Brazilian music might be celebrated on the thirty first of Could, the date that marks the thirtieth version of the Brazilian Music Award. After 4 years with out the standard ceremony, the stage of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro will obtain artists from all corners of the nation, who might be awarded in 31 classes. Alcione is honored within the 2023 version.
