CARLOS FRANZETTI - Grafitti [RE-UP]

CARLOS FRANZETTI
Quando ouvi pela primeira vez o album "PORTRAITS OF CUBA" de Paquito D'Rivera (disponivel no blog), levei um susto logo na primeira faixa, com a - a digamos - "ouverture" de TU MI DELIRIO. Fui ver o nome do arranjador e lá estava o - para mim - desconhecido CARLOS FRANZETTI. Segundo depoimento de Paquito, Franzetti "inventa acordes"; fui conferir e deparei com uns acordes unusuais, coisa de louco.  A biografia do Franzetti, aí embaixo, enumera os prêmios que o moço vem ganhando em todas as categorias de música. O homem é danado...!!!
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CARLOS FRANZETTI
A citizen of the United States for many years, Carlos Franzetti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1948. He began his musical studies at age 6 at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires. He later studied piano privately with Guillermo Iscla and Lucia Maranca and composition with Manuel Juarez. During the years 1971 - 1973 he studied composition with Humberto Hernandez Medrano in Mexico. After coming to the United States in 1974, he studied conducting with Vincent LaSelva at the Juilliard School. From symphonies to big band jazz, from chamber works to Latin American music and film scores – Carlos Franzetti has no limits. He is a 2007 Latin Grammy Nominee in the category of Best Instrumental Album, a 2006 Grammy Nominee in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his opera, “Corpus Evita,” a double 2003 Grammy Nominee for “Poeta de Arrabal,” in the categories of Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement, and the winner of the 2001 Latin Grammy Award for Best Tango Album, “Tango Fatal.” He conducted, arranged, and co-produced the 1997 Grammy Award Winner, “Portraits of Cuba” for Chesky Records.
(From the home page of Carlos Franzetti)
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ALBUM REVIEW
An amazing little record from keyboardist Carlos Franzetti -- a set that blends together jazz, Latin, and club influences from the 70s -- all together in one totally unique sort of sound! The album's got a vibe that's incredibly soulful -- filled with rhythms and changes that are quite different from the ordinary, but also
pretty darn funky too -- in a way that's somewhere between the best 70s productions of Larry Mizell, and the two amazing records cut in the decade by Bobby Vince Paunetto! Franzetti plays Fender Rhodes, moog, and acoustic piano on the record -- and the backings are full, but always nice and lean -- mixing bits of strings with Latin percussion, electric bass, guitar, and loads of great horns. A few cuts have some great scatting vocals alongside the instrumentation -- and the sound here is unlike anything else you might have heard.
(From the album release)
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Carlos Franzetti nos deleita con “Grafitti“, un LP con sabor a funk, sonido de música disco de los años ´70 con Fender Rhodes y piano. Beatriz es una pieza con sabor brasileño, una Bossa con unisonos de viento y voz. Cocoa Funk es todo un homenaje a la música Club: bajo, bateria, acompañado por violines sinteticos propios de la época y un despliegue de groove y buen gusto el las improvisaciones del pianista. Grafitti tiene un caracter latino de tiempo medio con lineas de improvisacion tocadas y cantadas simultaneamente a unisono.
(By Gabriel Mirellman)
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MINHA OPINIÃO: Por volta de 1974, Bill Evans gravou "Conversation with myself",
dublando piano acústico e piano elétrico: na época foi uma novidade! Em 1977, Carlos Franzetti foi um pouco mais longe e (antecipando o que Stevie Wonder viria a fazer um pouco mais tarde), além dos pianos elétrico e acústico, pilotou uma parafernália composta por sintetizador moog, guitarra, voz, etc. Deu nisso aí: quem sabe e pode, faz sozinho...
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CARLOS FRANZETTI - Grafitti

PERSONNEL:
Carlos Franzetti: Arrangements, Guitar, Piano, Celeste, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Moog Synthesizer,
Fender Rhodes...whatever!

TRACKS/FAIXAS
1. Beatriz
2. Lady Soho
3. Romancero
4. Cocoa Funk
5. Sweet & Low
6. Grafitti