Quietude (Candid)
Eliane Elias
Released October 14, 2022
Grammy Nominee for Best Latin Jazz Album 2024
Latin Grammy nominee for Best Engineered Album 2023
Jazzwise Top 50 Albums of the Year 2023
LIBERA Award nominee for Best Latin Jazz Record 2023
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About:
Eliane Elias, the Grammy-winning virtuoso pianist and vocalist, returns to her Brazilian bossa nova roots with “Quietude.” Following acclaimed works like “Love Stories” and the Grammy winning “Mirror Mirror,” where she showcased piano playing, “Quietude” focuses on Eliane’s sensuous voice, accompanied by intimate guitar arrangements in a swinging bossa nova style.
Collaborating with exceptional guitarists like Marcus Teixeira and Lula Galvo, Eliane pays tribute to Brazilian legends like Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim, creating a personal and expressive connection with the songs.
Her deep musical roots, starting as a child prodigy touring with Vinicius de Moraes and her special bond with Jobim, shine through in this album. Eliane’s selection of Brazilian compositions reflects her emotional ties to the music, capturing the essence of home and nostalgia. From romantic renditions of classics like “Voc e Eu” to heartfelt interpretations of Jobim’s “S Tinha Que Ser Com Voc,” Eliane’s vocals exude warmth and authenticity. The album also features lively tracks like “Bolinha de Papel” and soulful collaborations such as “Saveiros” with Dori Caymmi. With “Quietude,” Eliane Elias reaffirms her position as a captivating storyteller through the enchanting melodies of bossa nova, showcasing her vocal prowess alongside her renowned piano skills.
Track Listing:
1. Você E Eu = You And I (Carlos Lyra / Vinicius de Moraes) 4:54
2. Marina (Dorival Caymmi) 3:37
3. Bahia Com H = Bahia With H (Denis Brean) 4:17
4. Só Tinha De Ser Com Você = This Love That I’Ve Found (Aloysio de Oliveira / A. C. Jobim) 3:03
5. Olha = Look (Roberto Carlos / Erasmo Carlos) 4:21
6. Bahia Medley: Saudade Da Bahia / Você Já Foi À Bahia 5:53
6.1 Saudade Da Bahia (Dorival Caymmi)
6.2 Você Já Foi À Bahia (Dorival Caymmi)
7. Eu Sambo Mesmo = I Really Samba (Janet de Almeida) 3:31
8. Bolinha De Papel = Little Paper Ball (Geraldo Pereira) 2:32
9. Tim-Tim Por Tim-Tim (Geraldo Jacques / Haroldo Barbosa) 2:30
10. Brigas Nunca Mais = No More Fighting (A. C. Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes) 3:27
11. Saveiros (Dorival Caymmi / Nelson Motta) 3:30
Personnel:
Eliane Elias: piano and voice
Marcus Teixeira: guitar (2-4, 7, 8, 10)
Luis Galvão: guitar (1, 5, 6, 11)
Oscar Castro-Neves: guitar (9)
Marc Johnson: bass (2, 4, 8-10)
Celso de Almeida: drums (2, 4, 8), percussion (8)
Paulo Braga: drums and percussion (9)
Emilio Martíns: percussion (1, 4, 6, 10)
Special Guest
Dori Caymmi: voice (11)
Recorded in São Paulo, Brazil at Dissenso, Arsis and Na Cena, by Rodrigo de Castro Lopes, except track 9, recorded at Avatar Studios, NY, by Joe Ferla
Mixed by Pete Karam
Mastered by Paul Blakemore (3)
Album Design: Mark & Connie Beecher
Assistant Engineers: Gabriel Teixeira, Yuri Mello and Adonias Jr
Produced by Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson and Steve Rodby
Review:
Fresh from bagging a Grammy last year for Mirror Mirror, her dazzling 2021 album of piano duets with the late Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés, Quietude sees Elias partnering with a trio of exceptional guitarists: Marcus Teixeira, Lula Galvão and Oscar Castro-Neves.
As its title suggests, this exquisite album serves as a showcase for Elias’ characteristically understated vocal approach, one which eschews vibrato, with phrasing that glides over bar lines such that they dissolve away, and with each note dead centred. Written by Carlos Lyra and Vinícius de Moraes and first released in 1961, Elias opens the album with the soul-soothing ‘Você e Eu’. Beautifully accompanied by Teixeira, de Almeida and Johnson, there’s a slow-motion take on the Dorival Caymmi samba ‘Marina’, while Elias professed love for the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia is expressed in both ‘Bahia Com H’ and the adroitly worked mash-up of a further brace of Dorival Caymmi songs in ‘Bahia Medley’ (‘Saudade da Bahia/Você Já Foi á Bahia’).
Jobim is represented by two examples from his remarkable songbook, ‘Só Tinha Que Ser Com Você’ (with lyrics by Aloysio de Oliveira) plus ‘Brigas Nunca Mais’ (with lyrics by the aforementioned de Moraes). The late, great Castro-Neves plays exquisitely on a previously unreleased recording of the Haroldo Barbosa/Geraldo Jacques-penned bossa nova, ‘Tim-Tim Por Tim-Tim’, and the album closes with an infinitely touching, gracefully undulating duet version of ‘Saveiros’ featuring its co-composer (with Nelson Motta), Dori Caymmi.
Peter Quinn (Jazzwise)
