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Marisa Monte:

Infinito Particular

Infinito Particular from Marisa Monte conveys the singer's unique identity as composer, interpreter, producer and musicologist. Released in Brazil, and already selling platinum, the CD features Monte as a multi instrumentalist joined by an impressive array of guest artists including: David Byrne, Philip Glass, Seu Jorge, Carlinhos Brown and Arnaldo Antunes

 

Marisa Monte:

Universo ao Meu Redor

Brazilian superstar Marisa Monte gives us: Universo ao meu redor (The Universe Around Me), is a collection of Samba songs both old and new. Co-produced by Monte and Mario Caldato, this is her first-ever recording to focus entirely on the great Brazilian tradition of Samba. Having grown up immersed in Samba (her father Carlos was one of the directors of the famous Portela Samba school in Rio de Janeiro), Monte was aware that there were many songs that were passed along orally that weren't being recorded and were in danger of being lost. So she began researching these songs and their histories by interviewing Samba composers, as well as their family members & colleagues.

Universo ao meu redor places several of her discoveries that date back as far as the 1940s, including songs by Jayme Silva, D. Yvonne Lara, Casemiro Vieira, Moraes e Galvao, and Argemiro Patrocinio, alongside new Samba songs written by Monte with Brown and Antunes and other contemporary composers such as Paulinho da Viola. Ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne also makes a guest appearance on the song "Statue of Liberty," which he co-wrote with Monte.

During the same time that Monte was doing her Samba research, she also began to sort through her large collection of cassette tapes on which she had documented her songwriting process from the beginning of her career. As she went through the hundreds of tapes, digitizing them for preservation, she came across the early sketches of songs that had since been recorded and made popular, but also many songs that she had abandoned