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Posted by Edit () on 18:21:38 24/12/06
There is praise for the latest CD by Ravi and Marlui Miranda from the leading world music magazine SONGLINES as below:
"NEUNENEU" by Ravi and Marlui Miranda
This must be the only fusion of Brazilian indigenous and West African kora music ever to have been reviewed in Songlines. Those who have explored the far corners of the Brazilian catalogue, out beyond Egberto Gismonti and Nana Vasconcelos, may have come across Marlui Miranda. For the past few decades - in between playing with Gilberto Gil and Rodolfer Streter - she has been wandering through central Brazil and the Amazon like a latter-day latin Vaughan Williams. collecting indigenous songs, arranging them and recording them, often with tribal people themselves. Her Ihu - Todos os sons is a masterpiece. And were it not for her work, few would realise that Brazil's musicality is as much an indigenous trait as it is imported from Portugal and Africa.
Here Miranda teams up with Welsh based kora (harp-lute) player Ravi (a walking testament to the success of multiculturalism) to produce a series of haunting, trance-inducing tapestries of repeated harmony and delicate melody which is as lulling as a warm tropical sea and as rich and satisfying as the best from the ECM catalogue.
Neuneneu can be purchased online via www.ravi-art.co.uk where you can also find, on the Neuneneu page, articles and pictures on the CMN Neuneneu tour last July and info relating to the indigeneous Amazonian culture and its peoples...some royalties go to the amazon tribes!!
Other news: Ravi recently produced the latest CD by the charismatic mantra singer Bhagavan Das, created music for an international photo exhibit by Berthold Henseler and has developed a promotional DVD of the Neuneneu duo of Marlui Miranda and Ravi plus The Kora Colours Band which is available for concert promoters, bookers and agents
www.ravi-art.co.uk
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