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Maraca
Longe (Indies, Czech Republic)
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Maraca are from the Czech town of Zlin. Fronted by singer Gabriela Plíšková (who also plays violin and viola), the ensemble presents instrumentation new and old, local and global, including guitars, oud, percussion, didgeridoo, cello, saxophones, Pan pipes, clarinet, flutes, French horn and bass guitar. The sound is distinctly jazzy, almost lounge lizard in its cool. Here they set to music the works of Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa, futher cementing their placeless, timeless and rootless cosmopolitan approach.

Listen (Windows Media):
Nuvens
Inter v alo
Dobre
I am escaped one
I know

The press from the label:
Maraca – relatively new, although performing already for some time – group from the town of Zlín, penetrating the waters of jazzy ethno / world music, set the most famous modern Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa into music in its already third album. It is not necessary to list the geographic places that influenced them musically because despite the record includes sounds of for us still exotic instruments such as the Arabic lute, oud or Australian brass didgeridoo, it comprises also the guitar, bass, percussion and violin. The members of the band and the guests created a world of their own where even samples have their place but primarily string, brass and percussion sounds. In case you are interested in a true originality, imaginative world beyond styles and cultures, unique minimalisms of means of expression with the maximum of effect, then this very album is meant for you. A delicacy for non-orthodox “gourmets” in a highly original style!

Gabriela Plíšková – voice, violin, viola
Petr Filák – guitars, oud
Tomáš Rohleder – percussion
Robert Prokop – sampler, didgeridoo
Pimpa – violoncello
Radek Bednarík - saxophones, Pan’s flute, clarinet, flutes
Rudi Linner – French horn
Aleš Obkrácil – bass guitar

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