Rafael Antonio Nazario
Patria Añorada
© 2004 Rafael A. Nazario (673627073025)
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A great debut in a variety of Latin ("Nueva Canción, Nueva Salsa") styles with fine lyrics. Tango - Samba influences.
tracks
- 1 Doña Anatilde (Guaguancó Candombe)
- 2 El Vendedor de Manatí (Samba / Batucada)
- 3 Si Yo Pudiera (Bolero Tangón)
- 4 Isla (Salsa Danzonete)
- 5 Estación de Bayamón/Soneto para Abuela Provi (Bolero/Merengue)
- 6 Carabela (Rumba Flamenca)
- 7 Besos de Piedra (Ranchera)
- 8 Mi Monte (Guajira)
- 9 Eva (Balada)
- 10 Epílogo -Isla de Borinquen (Salsa)
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PATRIA A�NORADA
Patria Añorada charts new territory in Latin music: great melodies combined with lyrics that possess poetry and narrative drive. This is dancing music you can listen to and listening music you can dance to. The songs, which range across the Latin-American landscape, from Tango-influenced Bolero, to Samba/Batucada, 'Nueva Trova' and Salsa, grow in stature with each listen.
REVIEWS
"...Fresh and inventive." -Larry Harlow
'Patria Añorada' (literally, "longed-for homeland") is a collection of 11 songs in a variety of styles, each very original and very personal..."This is not [strictly speaking] salsa or plena or bomba...The listener can hear salsa, bolero, samba, ranchera, jazz in the music, but it has traveled far to assume the shape that reaches your ears from this collection. Each song is different, each is thoughtfully composed, but it is the poetry of the lyrics that really stands out.
The band is excellent and well led by Nazario. He recorded this CD in a relatively few days of studio time in Los Angeles and Mexico. Patria Añorada is a beautiful album, unlike anything you've ever heard..."
-Bruce Ishikawa-Picadillo.com
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About Rafael A. Nazario
For several years Nazario was the resident pianist at 72 Market Street in Venice, CA., supplying jazz, classics and "sophisticated improvisational piano" (national magazine quote) in what was then one of Los Angeles high-voltage, show-biz clientele spots. At any given time anyone could be in the room; Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Lee Ritenour, Lalo Schiffrin, Randy Newman, Sting, Yoko Ono…the list goes on, but who cares? you get the point. It was a great venue.
Nazario spent two years in Tokyo, in jazz clubs in the Roppongi district, playing swing, stride and jazz standards. For the last few years, Nazario was based in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he wrote, arranged and produced the songs on Patria Añorada. Currently living in Australia, Nazario has released [digitally] two instrumental original (danza, jazz/neo-classical) CDs, entitled "PianoForte 1 & 2." Stay tuned for his next vocal CD, "Soñador."
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Wonderful from start to finish!
author: Le Dernier CriIf this CD had been released by a major label, every lover of Latin music in the world would know the name Rafael Antonio Nazario. ––Wonderful from start to finish...Listeners who love jazz will find their appreciation of this masterpiece heightened still further.