Ho ascoltato l'album di esordio di questo strampalato gruppo e mi è piaciuto molto. I Selton è il nome di una band formata da quattro ragazzi brasiliani, originari di Porto Alegre, ma incontratisi a Barcellona. Qui hanno catalizzato l'attenzione del pubblico suonando al Parc Guell, dove sono stati notati anche dalla trsmissione di mtv "Italospagnolo" condotta da Fabio Volo e dai milanesi dell'Istituto Barlumen, che li hanno prontamente portati a Milano. Ora è uscito questo progetto musicale, "Banana a Milanesa" nel quale i quattro musicisti polistrumentisti (molto bravi), hanno rielaborato le canzoni di Jannacci e di Cochi e Renato in chiave brasiliana. Hanno tradotto anche i testi in portoghese, e sono riusciti a mantenere intatta tutta la verve e l'ironia racchiuse in quelle canzoni. Presente anche un omaggio a Dario Fo, nella canzone "Eu vì um rei". Nel disco collaborano nel disco anche Jannacci e Cochi e Renato.
Randomly, four young guys from Porto Alegre, a city in the south of Brasil, met in Barcelona. By chance or not, Ricardo Fischmann, Eduardo Dechtiar, Ramiro Levy and Daniel Plentz shared the home town, the passion for music, some influences and the need to survive away from home. Gathering this bunch of things in common, plus some other diversions and putting them side by side and squeezed on one of the benches of the Park Guell, we have the beginning of a very peculiar story. Its name is Selton.
It was precisely in September of 2005 that Selton was formed. The band began playing Beatles covers for the tourists that walked on Gaudí’s park. Their intention, at first, was to get some coins and, specially, have fun. With only a month playing together, those coins turned into their first demo CD, which began to be sold at the presentations in the park. After a year in this rhythm, the band reached the mark of a thousand copies sold.
Simultaneously, somethings also started to happen for the band outside the park. In May of 2006 they played at the “Voll-Damm’s Jazz Festival” in Barcelona. Then in July of the same year, the four Brasilians went to France to play in the Voix du Gaou, a festival where also played bands like the Pixies, Massive Attack and Jamiroquai.
Between playing in the park and participating in festivals or simply doing concerts around the city, an opportunity came to change Selton’s horizons. During an usual open air session, a producer of the Italian MTV, from Fabio Volo’s program Italo-Spagnolo, was interested in the band. Selton participated twice in the show and it was during these presentations that they met the producers of Istituto Barlumen, a producing company from Milan. After this meeting, Barlumen encouraged Selton to write their own songs, with the possibility of establishing a partnership.
Selton left the benches of the Park Guell and gave wings to creativity. Those were intense days, of a spontaneous and stimulating time in their apartment at the catalan capitol, when they finally started to give form to a still fragmented musical personality, through home recordings. It was a period of self-invention, inspired mainly by the Brazilian psychedelic music from the 60’s and the undeniable baggage from Liverpool.
In the end of September of 2006 Selton went to Milan, where a great part of their own material was recorded and they also worked on a project of versions of Italian songs rearranged and sung in Portuguese, called “Banana à Milanesa”. This work has already got them an appearance on a program of the Italian network RAI2, having the participation of Jannacci and Cochi e Renato themselves in some tracks, such as “Silvano” or even “Malpensa”. In this period they were also invited by Arto Lindsay to do the male choir on the italian tour of his project, the “Noise Mass”.
Born from the direct contact with the public, Selton finds its best reward on every smile of the people who listens to them. Perhaps because of this sincere attitude and the simple devotion to music, Selton has been taken to quite unusual places.
selton mayspace
selton banana a milanesa
istituto barlumen
...
Randomly, four young guys from Porto Alegre, a city in the south of Brasil, met in Barcelona. By chance or not, Ricardo Fischmann, Eduardo Dechtiar, Ramiro Levy and Daniel Plentz shared the home town, the passion for music, some influences and the need to survive away from home. Gathering this bunch of things in common, plus some other diversions and putting them side by side and squeezed on one of the benches of the Park Guell, we have the beginning of a very peculiar story. Its name is Selton.
It was precisely in September of 2005 that Selton was formed. The band began playing Beatles covers for the tourists that walked on Gaudí’s park. Their intention, at first, was to get some coins and, specially, have fun. With only a month playing together, those coins turned into their first demo CD, which began to be sold at the presentations in the park. After a year in this rhythm, the band reached the mark of a thousand copies sold.
Simultaneously, somethings also started to happen for the band outside the park. In May of 2006 they played at the “Voll-Damm’s Jazz Festival” in Barcelona. Then in July of the same year, the four Brasilians went to France to play in the Voix du Gaou, a festival where also played bands like the Pixies, Massive Attack and Jamiroquai.
Between playing in the park and participating in festivals or simply doing concerts around the city, an opportunity came to change Selton’s horizons. During an usual open air session, a producer of the Italian MTV, from Fabio Volo’s program Italo-Spagnolo, was interested in the band. Selton participated twice in the show and it was during these presentations that they met the producers of Istituto Barlumen, a producing company from Milan. After this meeting, Barlumen encouraged Selton to write their own songs, with the possibility of establishing a partnership.
Selton left the benches of the Park Guell and gave wings to creativity. Those were intense days, of a spontaneous and stimulating time in their apartment at the catalan capitol, when they finally started to give form to a still fragmented musical personality, through home recordings. It was a period of self-invention, inspired mainly by the Brazilian psychedelic music from the 60’s and the undeniable baggage from Liverpool.
In the end of September of 2006 Selton went to Milan, where a great part of their own material was recorded and they also worked on a project of versions of Italian songs rearranged and sung in Portuguese, called “Banana à Milanesa”. This work has already got them an appearance on a program of the Italian network RAI2, having the participation of Jannacci and Cochi e Renato themselves in some tracks, such as “Silvano” or even “Malpensa”. In this period they were also invited by Arto Lindsay to do the male choir on the italian tour of his project, the “Noise Mass”.
Born from the direct contact with the public, Selton finds its best reward on every smile of the people who listens to them. Perhaps because of this sincere attitude and the simple devotion to music, Selton has been taken to quite unusual places.
selton mayspace
selton banana a milanesa
istituto barlumen
...
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Great work.
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