Heitor Pereira | nl

In his thirty year career as a multi-instrumentalist, a composer and a producer, Júlio Pereira has always guided his artistic endeavors by a sense of the universality of cultural manifestations. This in no way contradicts the importance of his work in the context of Portuguese folk music, or the importance of an adequately ethnic appreciation of both its sounds and its roots. In fact, his work has always strived to incorporate Portuguese tradition into the aesthetic currents that have characterized a varied succession of “contemporaneities”. Thus his oeuvre, comprising 15 LPs, starts by reflecting the importance of musical innovation during...

Geraldo Pereira (April 23, 1918 – May 5, 1955) was a Brazilian composer and singer who lived in Rio de Janeiro. He introduced syncopation in samba, which would influence the bossa nova style years later. .

Designer, sound carrier, cultural operator. Ph.D from the Department of Design of the Royal College of Art (2003) and Master in Visual Communication (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992). Curator, futureplaces media lab for citizenship, since 2008. Heitor has released on various music labels (Touch , Ash International, Cronica Electronica, The Tapeworm) since 2001. Sound and AV collaborations include work with Jon Wozencroft, Fennesz, Biosphere, Lol Coxhill, Philip Marshall, Pangeia, Blaine L. Reininger, Bruce Geduldig, Len Massey, Max Eastley, Rafael Toral and BJNilsen. Other roles include: singer/soundscapist at the Stopestra music ensemble, the random music label 333, Autodigest,...

Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 — November 17, 1959) was a pioneering Brazilian modernist composer. He penned twelve symphonies, four operas, five ballets, and one of the most important string quartet cycles of the twentieth century. His music is noted for its exotic sound palette and formal inventiveness, influenced both by Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition. Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro. After his father died, he earned a living for his family by playing in cinema orchestras and street bands in Rio. As a cellist in an opera company, he made early...

Nazaré was born in Xapuri, in the state of Acre, on the border of Peru and Bolivia. In April 1978 she made her first single, 'O chero da Carolina', which was an immediate hit, followed by her first LP, 'Nazaré' and in 1979 the album 'Amazonia'. In 1980, she released her third album 'Natureza', including the song 'Amarelinha--La Marella' which became a hit. On October 27th she gave a memorable performance at L'Olympia in Paris, which led to a double album, 'Nazaré Pereira á L'Olympia'. Between 1980 and 1985 she recorded compilations with David Byrnes in the U.S., as well...