Celso Machado
Celso Machado showcases at CINARS in Montreal Nov 2008

• artist: Celso Machado
• event type: Concert
• start date type: 17 Nov 2008
• end date: 23 Nov 2008
• time: tba
• city/area: Montreal
• venue: CINARS
• country: Canada
• style(s): Brazilian Samba
• event submitted by: Celso Machado

Celso Machado will showcase at the 2008 CINARS conference in Montreal between November 17-23 with his Quartet Jogo da Vida. They are looking for touring opportunities for 2009/10
Interested presenters should contact Jessica Machado at celso@pacificcoast.net
Their CD of the same name was nominated for a Canadian JUNO award for best world music album in 2008.

""Celso Machado is a wonderful example of the musical riches currently flowing into Canada from many parts of the world. He has lived on our west coast since 1990 and since then has become a most appealing voice in the national conversation. Musically he lives somewhere between Brazil and Canada, and he does his utmost to bring the warmth and richness of his native land - plus the sound of the Amazon rainforest - to our rapidly thawing cultural tundra.

Up close, Celso Machado is probably the most musical person I know. He performs, composes, publishes, records, teaches, and makes music out of literally everything he touches. In his magical hands bottles of water, rocks he finds on the beach, his own body and, of course, almost any musical instrument I could name - plus some I couldn't - sing beautiful songs. Indeed, a couple of haunting musical effects on this CD emerged from pieces of junk Celso found lying around the recording studio. You'll also hear echoes of Celso's serious study of European Classical music, Italian folk music and several African musical traditions mixed into the whole bursting sonic universe he absorbed growing up in Brazil. For me, Celso Machado is the truest of musical Renaissance men (except that he's more interest" - Malcolm Gould - producer

« Celso Machado est un merveilleux exemple de la façon dont le Canada a su absorber les richesses musicales de nombreuses régions du monde. Établi sur la côte ouest du pays depuis 1990, il a réussi à imposer sa voix si attrayante dans le concert de la musique à l'échelle nationale. Du point de vue musical, il habite quelque part entre le Brésil et le Canada, et il s'efforce d'apporter l'ambiance chaleureuse de son pays d'origine - sans compter les sons de la forêt amazonienne - sur notre toundra culturelle qui est en train de dégeler à vue d'il.

À l'examiner de près, Celso Machado est probablement le musicien le plus accompli que je connaisse. Interprète, compositeur, éditeur, vedette du disque, enseignant, il fait littéralement de la musique avec tout ce qu'il touche. Entre ses mains magiques, tout chante de ravissantes chansons : des bouteilles d'eau, un caillou ramassé sur la plage, son propre corps et, bien sûr, presque tous les instruments de musique que je connais - et même certains dont je ne connais pas le nom. De fait, plusieurs des effets musicaux qui figurent sur cet album, Celso les a tirés d'objets disparates qu'il a trouvés dans le studio d'enregistrement. On y entend aussi les échos d'une étude sérieuse de la musique classique européenne, de la musique folklorique italienne, de même que de plusieurs traditions musicales africaines, le tout incorporé à l'univers sonique exubérant qu'il a absorbé pendant ses années de jeunesse au Brésil. Pour moi, Celso Machado est le plus parfait exemple, en musique, d'un homme de la Renaissance (sauf qu'il s'intéresse davantage à la musique d'une époque ultérieure, l'ère baroque). En somme, il est l'incarnation même de l'homme-orchestre.
Malcolm Gould
Réalisateur


CELSO MACHADO & JOGO DA VIDA
Celso Machado - Brazilian acoustic guitar, voice, & percussion; David Virelles - piano; Rich Brown - bass; and Liam MacDonald - Brazilian percussion and drum kit.

When Malcolm Gould producer of CBC's OnStage at Glenn Gould Studio first asked Celso to put together his dream band for an upcoming concert, national radio broadcast, and recording, Celso immediately thought of the prodigiously talented young Cuban piano player David Virelles and wonderful bassist Rich Brown. Celso composed pieces that both played to David and Rich's strengths as musicians and remained true to his own sound and inspiration. "You'll hear echoes of Celso's serious study of European Classical music, Italian folk music and several African musical traditions mixed into the whole bursting sonic universe he absorbed growing up in Brazil. (Malcom Gould -producer)"

Each song in this project evokes a mood or a memory; a snap shot from a moment in Celso's life as a touring musician; always rooted in Brazil but interacting with musicians from around the world and sometimes reaching back to other eras. These influences blend seamlessly into his own sound; his own unique contribution to Brazilian music.