Stefan Koschitzki & Fabiano Pereira - Brazilian Blues Vol. II (CD)

Release Date: 10/07/22

The two musicians, arrangers, composers see their project Brazilian Blues as a vehicle for the constant expansion of their collective musical language

Already the title-giving play on words 'Brazilian Blues' breaks with relish with hardened-traditional ways of looking at what Brazilian music is and what the blues may be. Well aware of how juvenile-moving the essence of music constantly seeks new points of contact and forms of expression, Stefan Koschitzki and Fabiano Pereira bypass any kind of phrasing on their new album 'Brazilian Blues Vol. II'. The two musicians, arrangers and composers see their project 'Brazilian Blues' as a vehicle for the constant expansion of their collective musical language. It is about respectable things throughout: searching and finding new attitudes and current perspectives on traditional music styles such as blues and bossa nova. Of course, you have to understand the subtle nuances of both styles first. In the band collective Mit4spiel5, Stefan Koschitzki (saxophone, clarinet, flute) and Fabiano Pereira (guitar, vocals) extensively sounded out the arcs of tension between jazz, blues and elegantly swinging metrics from Sugarloaf, adding European understandings of harmony. At the end of 2014, the two appeared for the first time as a two-man band with the album 'Brasil Antigo'. The almost forgotten Brazilian song tradition choro was passionately and purely instrumentally revived and reinterpreted. The press was still hailing the record while Koschitzki/Pereira had long since set out on their next feat: 'Brazilian Blues'. Released in November 2019 (on GLM FM 256), the ground-breaking work distilled the essences of bebop, bossa nova and pop into a flush, crisp masterpiece. Faithful listeners of the duo asked themselves afterwards what was supposed to come after that. Had Koschitzki/Pereira possibly already said everything they had to say with this album?