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Chris Stout’s Brazilian Theory is an exciting collaboration featuring Carlinhos Antunes (Brazil), Thomas Rohrer (Switzerland/Brazil) and Catriona McKay (Scotland). Recorded live at Celtic Connections 2010, this is an exhilarating, adventurous and soulful album which further enhances Stout’s reputation as an innovator in Scottish Folk music and beyond. Shetland fiddler Chris Stout is well renowned for his inquisitive musical nature, and has been a mainstay at the innovative end of the Scottish and wider Folk scene for the last decade. This new release, a live concert recording, captures one of his most vibrant collaborations. Borne from a project started in 2003 taking Scottish musicians to Sao Paulo State, this stunning album brings together his closest colleagues from Scotland and Brazil. The 8 strong line up includes his long term duo partner, harpist Catriona McKay, and Thomas Rohrer, a Swiss born violinist and saxophonist living in Sao Paolo, who specialises in the music of the Rabeca (a traditional Brazilian fiddle). It was with Rohrer and his music that Chris made a particular connection on that first trip. This recording catches a hugely uplifting raw energy and spark between the fiddle and rabeca. Combining their respective traditions, the musicians intertwine traditional melodies with sparkling improvisations. Chris says of the album - ‘on a cold wet January night in 2010 at the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, we set out to heat up Glasgow’s City Halls with this heart warming music. The resulting CD is a window into that very special night. It was an evening where innovation and spontaneity complemented our desire to perform music from the heart. With the help of a wonderful audience inside a magnificent concert hall we were able to achieve a real sense of creativity and share in a unique night together” .
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By Pete Fyfe
Format:Audio CD
OK so I might, on listening to the opening strains of this album have been a bit too prepared to write Chris Stout's Brazilian Theory project off as a technical step too far but on reflection I've been totally seduced by the allure of a cultural mix that was just waiting to be exploited by a member of the `folk' community. If memory serves me right I heard the link of Jazz/Brazilian/Celtic some 20 years before performed by the harp player Deborah Henson-Conant but here it's Stout's violin that takes the lead aided and abetted by an A-Class team of musicians including amongst others Catriona McKay (harp), Thomas Rohrer (sax) and Carlinhos Antunes on guitars. For me, not everything goes according to plan particularly when the jarring octave leaps of the violin almost rip the ears off those of us with a gentle disposition but all in all this is an innovative experience that will perhaps take root after repeated plays. In a way, much like Davy Spillane & Andy Irvine's "East Wind" and The Future Trad Collective these excursions might be taking things a tad too far for the ears of Philistines like me but we'll just have to wait and see how it all pans out with a wider audience.
PETE FYFE
PETE FYFE
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