CD Review: Carlos Gayotto – Realize
by David McLoughlin for Country Music News International
Realize is a rare creature – Brazilian country music influenced by Kriya Yoga!
The most popular musical genre in Brazil, dominating press and radio for almost 20 years, is sertaneja music. It has its roots in folk music performed in the rural and agricultural regions of Brazil, with the first recordings made in the 1920s.
For his new album, Realize, Carlos Gayotto has brought together some of the leading names in the sertaneja scene. Carlos is a songwriter and filmmaker who has dedicated his life to UTC -3 multiplatform artistic creation. This is his second album, synthesizing 11 years of Kriya Yoga meditation in 10 compositions (2 in Portuguese, 2 instrumental and the others in English) that invite the listener on a journey of self-realization.
The album was produced by Neymar Dias, who has worked with such artists as Inezita Barroso Nelson Aires, Tinoco, Monica Salmaso, Ivan Lins, Theo de Barros, Nana Vasconcellos, André Mehmari, Toninho Ferragutti, amongst others.
On pedal guitar is Paulo Perin, a multi-instrumentalist, with roots in the gaucho music of the south of the country. Paulo has worked for many years with the country’s leading sertaneja duo Fernando and Sorocaba. Considered the best 5-string banjo player in Brazil, Edson Moreira has performed and recorded over a 30-year career; Big Rabello has worked with such artists as César Camargo Mariano and Romero Lubambo as well as Jorge & Mateus and Marília Mendonça; Tó Brandileone has worked with everyone from Maria Beraldo to Jorge Dexler.
The result is an album where North American folk and Brazilian country music come together in orchestral arrangements with a strong cinematic influence. At its essence is the encounter between the electric guitar, the steel pedal and the 10-string Brazilian guitar.
- Unlike Plato’s Cave
voices and electric guitar: Kk
country guitar, double, guitar and electric bass: Neymar Dias
pedal steel: Paulo Perin
piano: Agenor de Lorenzi
drums: Big Rabello
From upon the mountains
Right from the main fountains
Descends pure sacred hard water
To bathe the profanes
And wash out the shame
Of people self-called the most faughter
Alike Plato’s cave
Some birds miss their cage
For pain is their comfort zone
Deep love one must learn
So fear won’t become
A way of life on its own
Put intention
Search for the light and get it done
Put intuition
Search for the right and reach the light
They say the spirit
Lives in the body
But it’s the soul
Making skulls go down the road
Through broken glass windows
In the valley of widows
I saw a woman attending her daughter
Saying, there are good men
But they’re one out of ten
It’s always been hard to be a mother
That kid had no choice
Just her inner voice
To grow the love for her body
Detach from the past
So pain must not last
Remember to never feel sorry
Put intention
Search for the light and get it done
Put intention
Search for the right and reach the light
They say the spirit
Lives in the body
But it’s the soul
Making skulls go down the road
- Turn The Tide
voices and electric guitar: Kk
double, guitar and acoustic double bass: Neymar Dias
piano: Agenor de Lorenzi
drums: Big Rabello
As the ship rides the horizon
And the sun starts to sink
The waters know that’s for a reason
And decide not to think
The waves are tied up in knots
They mind it just as before
The tides drown in thought
And still wonder some more
If I’m out of red
In early May
I’ll paint in blue
As the master used to say
As you listen to the thunder
And the saints roll their eyes
You keep working on the plunder
Or either raise hands to the sky
You are left on the crossroads
And miles away from home
Pathways unfold
And you’re sure your time has come
If I’m out of red
In early May
I’ll paint in blue
As the master used to say
I turn the tide
Now you are mine
Until the day I die
Feeling love to you
Is like loving myself too
- Todo Sonho Feito
voice and electric guitar: Kk
acoustic guitar and double bass: Neymar Dias
pedal steel: Paulo Perin
keyboards: Agenor de Lorenzi
drums: Big Rabello
string orchestra
| Do lençol rasgado,
Agarrado à madrugada, Fito o portão farpado Que intentou tê-la prendada E enquanto o peito meu Pede que a dor se cale Eis que amanheceu Entre os montes do meu vale De cruzar a nado Cada rio que tem em cada Margem um outro lado Onde há nós, ó minha amada Tem-me no seu leito eu E n’aqui bem mais que em bali Já que deus alvoreceu Entre os montes do meu vale De dedilhar o fado Perdeu o calo da enxada O anjo, o piá mimado O amor de toda fada O homem que deus creu Para conceber os males Eis que entardeceu Entre os montes do meu vale Do alto do condado Olho o céu e vejo nada Ou sou eu que sou o gado Ou sou eu que sou manada Silêncio vindo seu Esperando que deus fale Eis que anoiteceu Entre os montes do meu vale |
From the torn sheet,
Clinging to the dawn, Fito the barbed gate Who tried to have her arrested And while my chest Asks the pain to shut up Behold, it dawned Among the hills of my valley To swim Each river that has in each Margin another side Where are we, O my beloved Have me in your bed I And here much more than in Bali Since god dawned Among the hills of my valley Strumming the fado Lost the hoe’s callus The angel, the spoiled dad The love of every fairy The man that God believed To conceive the evils Behold, it was evening Among the hills of my valley From the top of the county I look at the sky and I see nothing Or am I the cattle Or am I the herd Silence coming yours Waiting for God to speak Behold, it was evening Among the hills of my valley |
- No Boy
voice and electric guitar: Kk
viola caipira, viola with 7 mouths, double, guitar and acoustic double bass: Neymar Dias
keyboards: Agenor de Lorenzi
drums: Big Rabello
Once upon a time
There was a boy
Who loved to satisfy
And feel the joy
He’d bring home every night
As if there was a home
As if there was a night
And no boy
Once upon a time
There was a man
Who loved to crucify
Every boy
He’d sense that he could fight
As if there was a time
As if he would ignite
Some boy
Once upon a time
There was a land
That loved to glorify
Any coin
In exchange for light
As if there was a coin
As if they wouldn’t mind
No boy
Are you delivering
An excellent and satisfying
Experience
A ludic and exciting
Amusement
With all those rating stars
So they’ll come back again
With no churn
On the streaming Era don’t only create
You must make them feel like pushing play again
You may also want to tell them just what to like
Once upon a time
There was
No boy
- Senhor do Tempo
guitar: Neymar Dias
piano: Agenor de Lorenzi
string orchestra
Instrumental
- Wine Into Water (4:22)
voice and electric guitar: Kk
viola caipira, viola with 7 mouths, double, guitar, acoustic double bass: Neymar Dias
pedal steel: Paulo Perin
drums: Big Rabello
I was given the friendship of loneliness
But loneliness couldn’t bear to hear me confess
That I deserted love for a life of mess
She’s been leaving me on and over countlessly
Happiness’ face changes from time to time
But what has time to do with this condition of mine
Among the things that last I wished a smile
I’m a fool who can’t see what doesn’t shine
Unconditional love is found on an open fist
Pure love happens only when winds a-swift
Gods are atoms of clouds and mist
There’s no I, you or me, only God exists
I met a perfect man who couldn’t see his ego
His vanity was a lost safe inside his greed
As if his soul was a wallet and greed was legal
As if being perfect was some kind of grit
If you were told you cannot compose a song
That is when you should prove them all wrong
What is a song for a soul where music lives on
Just go in there resonate their moan
Unconditional love is found on an open fist
Pure love happens only when winds a-swift
Gods are atoms of clouds and mist
There’s no I, you or me, only God exists
They screamed that I could not live out a poem
And indeed there’s nothing out of my forehead to show em’
I understood it twenty years from then
For there was no sea when I saw the ocean
I pity mortality like a skydiver deals with fear
Try to kill the water with fire it becomes steam
Kill it with cold and you’ll see what I mean
As dead carbon men make the water clean
Unconditional love is found on an open fist
Pure love happens only when winds a-swift
Gods are atoms of clouds and mist
There’s no I, you or me, only God exists
- Even Minded (4:48)
voices and electric guitar: Kk
double, guitar, lap steel, acoustic double bass: Neymar Dias
5-string banjo: Edson Moreira Araújo
drums and percussion: Tó Brandileone
string orchestra
solo violin: Ricardo Takahashi
Don’t hope anymore
Don’t give less than you can
More is gonna overflow the shore
Less is gonna dry the sand
I was trying to refine
Every taste and every need
Until I trace the perfect line
Onto the waste of all my deeds
I was willing to prevent
Myself from every harm
Till I found the perfect way
To be the wild sheep in the farm
It’s ok
Not to be
Ever perfect
Just gotta be love
On the note of the chant
On the wave of vibration
Lies the seed which is a plant
Lies the need for salvation
I was trying to refine
Every taste and every need
Until I trace the perfect line
Onto the waste of all my deeds
I was willing to prevent
Myself from every harm
Till I found the perfect way
To be the wild sheep in the farm
It’s ok
Not to be
Ever perfect
Just gotta be love
- Territórios
voices: Kk
guitar, lap steel, mandolin, viola 7 mouths, electric bass: Neymar Dias
keyboards: Agenor de Lorenzi
drums and percussion: Tó Brandileone
string orchestra
| No princípio era terra e céu
E treva e o abissal E pelo suor até ateu Deus pagava em pá de sal Mas com acídia em seu colo O homem viu o sal no solo E fez do solo um feudo E da cerca veio o medo E solidão
Vivendo como mercancia Faltava engarrafar o ar Aquela mais letal mentira É a que se escolhe acreditar “dou oito homens pela terra Mais suas filhas e a serra” Se herdou capitania Pensou que talvez poderia Vender o chão Um pé de cana para um de café No apetite industrial “a burguesia vai viver de fé Mas sem pecado original” Migrando uganda à guiana E acorrentando os wayana Isso, corta a própria córnea Até pedir misericórdia Mas sem perdão Dos romanos eram os celtas E também um deus na cruz Assim nasceu o blues do delta De sangue que virava luz Mas com o fim da escravatura Jogaram roma na lavoura O karma vem com paciência Humildade e transcendência E remissão A lua é pedra em arremesso Uma terra a conquistar Assim também é o meu berço O meu escalpo e o meu cocar De pai de mouros em turim De mãe de negros e tupis Que estão naquele território Que prova tudo transitório E ilusão |
At first it was earth and sky
And darkness and the abyssal And by the sweat even atheist God paid in salt shovel But with acedia in your lap The man saw the salt in the soil And he made the soil a fiefdom And from the fence came fear And loneliness
Living like a merchant The air was still to be bottled. That most lethal lie It is the one who chooses to believe “I give eight men for the land Plus your daughters and the mountain ” If inherited captaincy He thought that maybe he could Sell the floor One cane to one of coffee No industrial appetite “The bourgeoisie will live by faith But without original sin ” Migrating Uganda to Guyana And chaining the wayana This cuts the cornea itself Even asking for mercy But without forgiveness Of the Romans were the Celts And also a god on the cross Thus was born the delta blues Of blood that turned to light But with the end of slavery Roma played in the field Karma comes with patience Humility and transcendence And remission The moon is stone in pitch A land to conquer So is my cradle too My scalp and my headdress From the father of Moors in Turin From the mother of blacks and Tupi Who are in that territory That proves everything transient And illusion |
- Colors of the Fall (4:27)
voices and guitar: Kk
acoustic double bass: Neymar Dias
piano: Agenor de Lorenzi
string orchestra
The star I am staring at tonight
Has lit all the room with afternoon light
The curtains on the eleventh floor
Haunt away a ghost I saw from the door
And this is how I’ll keep you
Those days we were two
It was only you and I
I was yours and you were mine
You said we’d go back to be dust
Now you arose from hell during dusk
But in my heart what sun sets today
Is the thing left unsaid that took you away
But this is how I’ll keep you
Those days we were two
It was only you and I
I was yours and you were mine
Oh, the colors of the Fall
The music down the hall
The shadow across the wall
Expecting for them all
Oh, the colors of the Fall
We faking on a ball
If God would not a-stall
Could heaven start to fall
- Lia (Instrumental) (5:12)
electric guitar: Kk
string orchestra
solo cello: Vana Bock
String Orchestra
violins: Pedro Juliano Dellarolle, Ricardo Takahashi, Adriano José de Mello, Ugo Minoru Fonda Kageyama, Marcos Henrique Scheffel, Sergei Eleazar de Carvalho, Edgar Montes Leite, Rodolfo Delgado Lóta, Otávio Scoss Nicolai (Otávio Teco)
violas: Daniel Pires da Silva, Gabriel Henrique Marin, Camila Ribeiro Rodrigues
cellos: Vana Bock, Rafael Cesario, Mariana Amaral
upright bass: Pedro Jorge Gadelha de Oliveira
All songs and lyrics by Carlos Gayotto
Music production and direction, arrangements and conduction by Neymar Dias
Sound engineer: Tó Brandileone
Mixing engineer: Ricardo Mosca
Mastering engineer: Maurício Gargel
VISUAL ID ALBUM
Artistic direction / Visual concept: Patrícia Black
Design: Uibirá Barelli
Photos: Caroline Curti
Photo session:
Assistance: Tamires Prado and Ethel Braga
Styling: André Puertas
Styling assistant: Renan Kawano
Beauty: Janaína Marques
Executive Producer: Nayda Rodrigues
VISUALIZERS
Footage by Carlos Gayotto, Bianca Halpern and Ricardo Reis
Directed by Carlos Gayotto
Editing: Aline Lewinski
Motion Graphics: Teidy Nakao
Color Grading: Fernando Clauzet
Label: A Música Vive
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