Quinteto Villa-Lobos | zh

Em 1971 surgiu em Pernambuco um grupo musical que traçava um novo caminho para a MPB. Diante da indecisão no cenário da música nacional, após a irrupção do movimento tropicalista, o QUINTETO VIOLADO apresentava uma proposta fundamentada nos elementos musicais da cultura regional, através de trabalhos de pesquisa e da própria vivência de cada um dos seus integrantes, originários da região Nordeste do Brasil. Conseguindo extrair das mais simples manifestações populares a sua essência rítmica e melódica, o Grupo criou uma nova concepção musical, cujo traço fundamental é a interação entre o erudito e o popular, sem desfiguração, reafirmando a...

"Quinteto Tati" (meaning the Tati Quintet) is a portuguese band that made its debut in 2004. Despite the name, honouring the cineast Jacques Tati, the band has six members, and not five. The vocalist and lyric author is JP Simões, known as vocalist of the band Belle Chase Hotel. The music by Quinteto Tati has a jazzy influence and borrows from rumba, waltzes and a certain decadent "latinicidade". The writing of music is shared between JP Simões and Sérgio Costa, also a member of Belle Chase Hotel, originally from Coimbra. Until now, the band has just one album out, "Exílio",...

In 1974, the soul-pop vocal group Trio Ternura, consisting of Jussara, Jurema and Robson, became a quintet with the addition of members Léo and Zé Roberto as part of the group. With the trio's growing influence of the 70s soul music, as they had just participated on stage in Toni Tornado's soul anthem "BR-3" (winner of the 1970 brazilian international music festival) and released in 1971 their only album, heavily influenced by psychedelic soul, their 1974 record, as Quinteto Ternura, is filled with astonishing soul compositions as well as arrangements by Arthur Verocai and special guests Burnier & Cartier, and...

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...