The Brazilian guitarist, André Geraissati, handed away on November 19. He was 74.
Typically wistful and atmospheric in tone, Geraissati’s music blends components of jazz and Brazilian folks music. He collaborated with such artists as Grupo D’Alma, Egberto Gismonti, Bobby McFerrin, and Wynton Marsalis. From 1979 to 1985, he carried out as a part of the guitar trio, Grupo D’Alma.
Geraissati’s 1988 solo album, DADGAD, explores an alternate tuning, as expressed within the title, by which a number of the guitar’s six strings are tuned down a complete tone. It permits for brand new prospects in chord spacings and voicing. In his evaluate of the album, Diego Olivas writes,
Tune down and instantly you are feeling/hear the inherent modality/resonances in your usually inflexible instrument. On DADGAD, André Geraissati tunes right down to misremember phrasing he grew up studying, merely letting the improvisatory scale of this new tuning lead him the place he needed to go.
Right here is the album’s opening monitor, Vento:
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Featured Picture: {photograph} by Marcelo Davera
