Som Persona

This progressive rock group has been formed in São Paulo in 1970 by multi-instrumentalist Manito (former The Clevers and Os Incríveis), Pedrinho Batera (drums/vocals) and bass player Pedrão Baldanza. With this formation they released their excellent debut "Snegs" in 1974. Then the band went through a multitude of line-up changes, launched a self-titled album in 1977, comprising mainly funk music and opened for Alice Cooper at the Maracanãzinho Festival (Rio de Janeiro). Soon after the band has been dissolved.
This double CD presents, for the very first time, live recordings from Som Nosso de Cada Dia at their most progressive - during their 70s heyday - carefully selected by the musicians themselves amongst the best sounding tapes available…

Between 2005 and 2009, Paulo Moura created and recorded music with the Carioca group Teatro do Som, founded in 1985 by the flutist Paulo Martins, his friend and disciple. Alento became the first posthumous title of Paulo Moura's phonographic work and presents four themes from the musician, composed in partnership with Alex Meirelles and Ricardo Feijão, both members of Teatro do Som (Sound Theater): "Abertura 3D", "Road Movie," "O Portador do Segredo," and "Dia de Festa." It is an experimentation around modified music, which,the conductor and clarinettist spent many years working on among friends and experts such as Leandro Verdeal.

Gothic Voices’ reputation for the originality of its programming is cemented with its first recording of medieval Christmas music, in which Julian Podger reimagines a fifteenth-century carol evening. Mirroring the modern practice of performing mostly music from the preceding centuries alongside some contemporary repertoire, the programme includes late medieval English carols, chant, mono-and polyphonic songs and motets for the Advent and Christmas season, focusing on Mary, her Annunciation and the birth of Jesus. Larger-scale festive motets and mass movements by English late medieval celebrities John Dunstaple and Leonel Power also feature.