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blue twenty​-​six

by Constantina

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Cardiopatia 05:06
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s t 2007 03:30
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s t 2011 03:15
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s t 2012 05:04
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Piña Colada 05:15
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Baleia 11:24
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Viela 07:41

about

Well, this is an exceptional release.

If the more recent swing of Blue Tapes back towards bands - a format that some were predicting the death of amidst the glut of bedroom solo projects - is reflective of anything it’s that the format is still locating new sounds and feelings in 2017. Bands like Trupa Trupa, Quasiviri and Constantina are proof that messy human heads and their fallible hands can still conjure structures that dazzle, intimidate, mesmerise and alleviate.

The gentle, warm, instinctive flow of Constantina’s instrumental rock makes me wonder if Godspeed had grown up in Brazil - like Constantina did - and not the broken, frozen Quebec they eulogise, whether their apocalyptic sound would have thawed into rhythms as restorative and humanistic as this.

This is rock played with a feeling that almost resembles jazz and which lights up synapses in my brain that haven't been tickled since hearing great, lost bands of the early 00s like Oslo’s post-krautrock heroes Salvatore.

Blue twenty-six has been conceived as a testament to the quail (Codorno) and completes a trilogy of mostly-improvised avian-themed albums from the band that include 2014’s Pelicano and 2006’s Jaburu.


Praise for Constantina:

“Constantina conceived of their wonderful Pelicano album – recorded in 2007, but released in 2014 – as a tribute to the pelican. The music is gentle, persuasive and determined. Those long lovely guitar narratives translate as an elegy for the pelicans, albatrosses and other non-human species who now resemble sigils of bones and plastic, and who will eventually be just plastic. Maybe that’s a grim juxtaposition for music so warm and otherwise comforting! We’re sorry. It’s a reminder for ourselves, as much as anyone.” - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

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released November 19, 2017

Memória. Esta é a palavra que define este álbum e as músicas aqui reunidas. Como aquelas cartas escritas de um só ato de improviso, para depois serem engavetadas por não cumprir o seu tempo de destinação, la lettre volée, pequena carta posta de lado, esperando o momento de ser encontrada por outras pessoas que não o seu destinatário oficial. E pra
diante de si devolvê-la livremente ao sentido de seu próprio voo.  

O lançamento acabou por ser assim também. Um convite realizado fora de seu tempo, sem que esperássemos…

Decidimos revirar estas cartas e deixar a "Codorna" ser livre! Destinada a voar! E para quem sabe encontrar Jaburu e Pelicano nesse emaranhado céu! E juntas, nos mostrar como ser mais livres…menos engessados…pois é uma das coisas que percebemos nestes anos. como
os fonogramas podem engessar…mas para além disso, como podem guardar memórias. Assim como Jaburu e Pelicano.

Cordona, é a reunião destas cartas sonoras feitas espontaneamente entre o período de 2006 a 2014, que nos faz lembrar de momentos livres onde as notas fluíam por nossos dedos e passavam sem que percebêssemos por nossa consciência. Por isso assim. Sem alvoroços…sem avisos e destino…Codorna nasceu e decidiu voar espontaneamente. decidimos não segurá-la.

Voa! La volée!

Constantina em "Codorna" é:

Alex Fernandino
André Veloso
Bruno Nunes
Cristiano Lima
Daniel Nunes
Felipe Carvalho
GA Barulhista
Glauco Ferreira
Gustavo Gazzola
Leonardo Nunes
Lucas Morais
Thiago Vieira
Tulio Castanheira

Gravado no "Pequeno Quarto"
Belo Horizonte/MG - Brasil
Editado, Mixado e Masterizado por André Veloso

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