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Maria Carvalho: vocals | |
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Maria Carvalho grew up in a village close to Porto. At that time traditional, as well as pop music was an integral part of everyday life in Portugal. Singing was a natural form of the expression of the people. To escape the pinched circumstances Maria moved to London and Paris for Au-Pair jobs and finally came to Berlin where she lives till now. Here she also gave birth to her son Lucas. With the time the longing to Portugal became stronger and stronger. By the meeting with António de Brito, who sang Portuguese songs long since in restaurants and in parties, Maria Carvalho also found a possibility to maintain the connection with her native country. | |
Maria Carvalho: vocals | |
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If she closes her eyes while singing, she allows the pictures of recollection to rise to the surface and let the audience take part in it with her songs.
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António de Brito:
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| António de Brito sings the male version of the Fado with strong and smoky temperament since the early 90s in the Portuguese restaurants of Berlin. | |
António de Brito: vocals, guitar
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Daniel Pircher: portuguese guitar | |
Daniel Pircher:
portuguese guitar | |
Daniel Pircher was born in Berlin, moved to Portugal at age of ten and at the age of eleven he learned to play to the guitar. Three years later he founded his first rock band with self composed songs. In addition he played in the bass for the audio productions of his father Armin Pircher (Amor Perfeito), who devoted himself to Portuguese music. This influence led to the fact that Daniel, in spite of various rock and pop formations, formed the Portuguese group "Filhos da madrugada" in 1996 in which he played the classical guitar. From summer 1998 he started dealing intensely with the Mongolian music and learned the traditional overtone singing. | |
At the same time he had a small label, produced electronic music and published various Techno sampler. In 2000 he started to play the Portuguese guitar and founded the group Fado Incorporated and later it's successor, the Trio Fado. In the same year he also founded, as a singer and guitarist together with the cellist Benjamin Walbrodt, the group Extravagante and presents a program with multi-faceted own compositions and interpretations of pieces of José Afonso and other Portuguese composers.
In 2003 the group Terrakottonium followed, in which he uses his overtone singing and Crete stoneware sound jugs, which hang in a 4m2 big and 3 m high metal scaffolding.
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Benjamin Walbrodt: cello | |
Benjamin Walbrodt: cello | |
At age of five Benjamin Walbrodt already demand for a cello and as a result got violoncello lessons. He studied violoncello in the college for music "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden and in the conservatoire "Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov" in St. Petersburg and concluded with an orchestra certificate. He worked in the classical symphony orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein theater. However, classical music only did not make him happy! The cellist appeared beside his classical engagements in all possible formations and styles:
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Solo, in the Russian folklore duet with Juri Sosnovski, with a jazz-funk and a Metal band, a kind of Country blues band, in the "Dreigroschen" opera with Shelly Kupferberg, with the Melodiaorchester Dresden (a 30s hit orchestra), Free jazz, a gospel formation, a tango and a Tori Amos-cover band, in dance theater-productions, film (e.g. "Schnapphahn und Kallaputschni" from Thilo Schimenz) and television productions of the Croatian broadcasting company at the upbeat island festival on Hvar, or with various new serious music ensembles or chamber orchestras.
He had concert tours to Israel, Switzerland, Italy and with more than 1000 cellists with the Cellissimo Grandissimo for an earthquake charity concert in Kobe - Japan, in which also of Twelve cellists of the Berlin philharmonic orchestra took part. The resulted enriched his style and his ideas. His music productions for children: "Barbar, the small Elephant", "carnival of the animals", "the small guitar" appeared in "Kein Tag ohne Musik" publishing, Hamburg.
The desire for the music experience par excellence, let him meet Daniel Pircher. The influence was canalized to the foundation of the Extravagante duet. The result: Pure Sound joy and a special liability to the expression of an extravagant attitude to life. A taste of it offers the CD with the miraculous story of Jorge Amado "Der Gestreifte Kater und die Schwalbe Sinha" (PATMOS) to which Extravagante played the music together with Maria Carvalho. On another CD "In dieser einen stillen Nacht", he accompanies stories and poems read by Petra Kelling, Dieter Mann, Otto Mellies, Ulrich Mühe and Otto Sander. | |
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