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Listen/Watch/Download all Sergio Benchimol's works for *FREE* clicking here. (Official Website)
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Cada música conta uma história. Algumas vezes entendemos o seu significado, outras não. O Poder de influenciar nosso ânimo é muito bem narrado pelos Profetas, quando eles utilizam a música para restaurar sua capacidade de profecia.
Nós, simples mortais, apreciamos a música como um delete para nossos ouvidos, corações e mentes. No intanto aqueles que tocam para expressar seu mundo interior, quando encontram um ouvinte atento, vivenciam a experiência de sentir que um ciclo se completa. "A música está no ar, o mais espiritual do mundo material", disse Maimônides.
Espero que apreciem estes trabalhos, já que sua concretização não seria possível sem as bêncãos de D's e sem a grande ajuda dos amigos.
Shalom, Shalom, Shalom.
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Multi-instrumentalist Sérgio BENCHIMOL is quite well-known on the Brazilian prog scene. He played with symphonic prog band SEMENTE in the early 70s and with mellow jazz band TRUE ILLUSION among others. On his first album, “A Drop in the Ocean” he handles piano, viola, guitar, bass, Mellotron, Moog, sitar, tubular bells and vocals. He is deftly surrounded by flautist David Ganc whose instrument dominates many of the album’s tracks; Ganc also plays alto, sporano and tenor saxes. Finally, cellist Luciano Vaz and oboe player Carlos Prazeres complete the line-up.
The 2004 album “A Drop in the Ocean, an Ocean in a Drop” produced by Benchimol, Defra & Ganc is a delightful collection of 19 melodic and mostly instrumental tracks; it’s a mixture of prog rock, folk, world and jazz fusion. The first half of the album has a more refined, relaxed atmosphere, almost a chamber orchestra feel whereas the second is rockier and jazzier. This is upbeat, breezy material, not anywhere near bombastic or intense, and where the ever-present melodious flute of David Ganc takes center stage. The moods are many and varied, the compositions relatively simple, featuring ethnic influenced melodies over repeated progressions of two or three chords and a couple of solos or melodic breaks. Vocals are rather sparse and non-intrusive, sort of mixed in with the sound, the notable work of swiss sound engineer Fabrizio de Francesco (Defra) which recorded and mixed this performance of SB with his band True Illusion (guest star Marcio Montarroyos).
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True Illusion & Márcio Montarroyos at MNBA: Eletroacustico
