2015 Winter/Spring Season MAY 2015 Larry Poons, Untitled, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 68”x85” Published by: Season Sponsor: BAM 2015 Winter/Spring Season #SAMBANOISE Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer SAMBA NOISE BAM Howard Gilman Opera House May 1 & 2 at 8pm Marisa Monte With special guests Arto Lindsay Seu Jorge Ryuichi Sakamoto SAMBA NOISE PERFORMERS Drums Marcelinho Moreira Acoustic guitar Mauro Diniz Bass Paulão Sete Cordas Percussion Pretinho da Serrinha Music directors Marisa Monte and Arto Lindsay Director Márcio Barros Executive producer Joanna Jourdan Manager Leonardo Netto PA engineer Daniel Carvalho Monitor engineer Alexandre Poncy Saieg Road manager Alex Olímpio Who’s Who MARISA MONTE has been the benchmark for was recently recorded for Portuguese singer excellence among female singers in Brazil since Carminho’s latest album. With partners Arnaldo she emerged on the music scene in 1987. As Antunes and Carlinhos Brown, Monte formed the her career approaches the 30-year mark, she Tribalistas. The trio’s first and so far sole album, commands the same admiration that greeted Tribalistas (Phonomotor/EMI Music 2002), sold her debut. Born July 1, 1967 in the city of three million copies worldwide and raised the Rio de Janeiro, the home of samba, Marisa artist’s visibility in the pop world. She has been de Azevedo Monte has racked up 12 CDs and regarded as a great Brazilian female singer of her seven DVDs in her discography and boasts 11 generation since she emerged on the scene with nominations and four wins in the Latin Grammy the highly-acclaimed show Tudo Veludo (1987), awards. Monte has received eight awards from followed two years later by the live album MM Video Music Brazil, the award for MTV clips. (EMI Music, 1989). A singer, composer, and arranger, Monte has enjoyed seven successful international tours Monte renews herself after each album and each and has launched albums outside of Brazil. Her performance, managing her career independent latest studio album—O que você quer saber of market pressures. Intervals between the de verdade, produced in 2011 by the artist’s launch of an album and touring have allowed own label Phonomotor and distributed by EMI her to work calmly, without pressure, on the Music—reached 27 countries and resulted in the aesthetic concept of each part. No two of her 2014 world tour captured in the CD and DVD albums are alike. For example, her latest studio Verdade, uma ilusão (Phonomotor/Universal album, O que você quer saber de verdade, is Music). Monte’s voice, of perfect pitch, was pop—light and sunny, one in which the artist honed in Italy by operatic training in the 1980s. approaches romantic popular music from a Her work embraces the traditions of MPB modern point of view. The resulting show, (musica populare brasileira) and samba within which toured in 2012—13, introduced and a modern and sophisticated pop format. A established a new standard for the use of talented composer—featured on her second projections at concerts in Brazil. The interaction album, Mais (EMI-Odeon, 1991), by US of music, video, and art was seen by 420,000 producer Arto Lindsay—Monte is considered spectators at the shows in 20 cities in Brazil one of the most versatile performers in Brazil. and abroad. With more than 10 million albums Her voice lends itself equally well to samba sold worldwide, Marisa Monte is one of the (she dedicated an album to the genre, Universo voices that identifies Brazil on the musical world ao meu redor, Phonomotor/EMI Music, 2006) map. In August 2012, the artist represented as to rock and tango. Brazil, along with other high-profile Brazilian personalities, at the closing ceremony for the Monte has recorded and/or performed live with London Olympics, singing the aria (Cantilena) the greatest names in Brazilian music. Among from Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5, one of the them are icons of the samba, like Paulinho da best known works by Rio-born composer Heitor Viola and idols from the 1960s MPB movement, Villa-Lobos (1887—1959). The beauty of such as Gilberto Gil from Bahia. The love of Monte’s unique voice, her talent as a composer, samba was inherited from her father, Carlos her charisma, and her aesthetic refinement make Monte, ex-director of Portela, one of Rio’s her one of the most successful musical artists in most traditional samba schools. Her taste for the world. Her voice stirs passions and moves universal pop music developed over time, multitudes wherever it is heard, in Brazil and all and she has remained open to every type of over the world. music. She has connected with Brazilian and foreign artists; her new song, “Chuva no mar,” Who’s Who Marisa Monte. Photo: Leonardo Aversa Who’s Who ARTO LINDSAY (b. 1953) has stood at the intersection of music and art for more than four decades. As a member of DNA, he contributed to the foundation of No Wave. As bandleader for the Ambitious Lovers he developed an intensely subversive pop music, a hybrid of American and Brazilian styles. Throughout his career, Lindsay has collaborated with both visual and musical artists, including Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Matthew Barney, Caetano Ve- loso, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. He has been involved with carnival in Brazil for many years, and in 2004 he began making parades. Photo: Anitta Boa Vida Who’s Who Courtesy the artist SEU JORGE was born Jorge Mário da Silva in MTV Apresenta Seu Jorge (MTV Presents Seu 1970 in Belford Roxo (Rio de Janeiro). He had Jorge) and co-wrote the track “E depois” with the several jobs from the age of 10, was a regular at musician BID for the album Bambas e biritas balls and Samba gatherings in Rio, and started Vol. 1. He won the APCA Prize (São Paulo Art singing at clubs at a young age. He left home at Critics Association) for best singer of the year in 19 and lived on the streets, where he had his 2003 and 2004. In 2004 he released the album first contact with theater. Discovered by clarinet CRU in France (on the Naïve label) and England, player Paulo Moura, he auditioned for a musical winning critical raves. He was acclaimed in and his life changed. Seu Jorge (nicknamed by Europe as a major new representative of Brazil- drummer friend Marcelo Yuka) made his mark ian music. He sang alongside the Black Eye Peas as a musician in 1998 as a member of band and Foo Fighters on the BBC’s Later... With Jools Farofa Carioca, which released the album Moro Holland, where he returned a few years later. He no Brasil in Portugal, Japan, and Brazil. In 2001 played a concert to mark the release of the DVD he released his first solo album, Samba Esporte of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, directed by Fino, which he produced with Mário Caldato. Wes Anderson. In 2002 he co-wrote the song “Tem espaço na Van” with Ed Motta, making a samba project Jorge performed at the Place de la Bastille in (Caatinga de Swing), performing in a Rio night Paris with Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Lenine, club and at Skol Rio. In 2003 he recorded CRU Daniela Mercury, and Jorge Benjor; at the in Itaipava, produced by Jerome Pigeon, and co- Montreux Jazz Festival; and toured Euroope that wrote with singer Ana Carolina the songs “Beat year. In 2005 he released CRU in Japan, where da Beata” and “Não fale desse jeito” for her he had a massive following dating back to his album, Estampado. In 2004, in Rome, he shot Farofa Carioca days. In Brazil, he recorded the the video for his song “Tive Razão,” featuring album/DVD for the concert Seu Jorge & Ana actors Willem Dafoe and Bill Murray, directed by Carolina—Live. That September, he toured US Mariana Jorge. Next, he released a DVD entitled cities performing CRU, with sold-out concerts. In cont. Who’s Who Seu Jorge, cont. 2006, in a samba project at Na Mata Café (São record an album. Twelve songs were recorded, Paulo), he performed Partido-Alto-style sambas but the album was released two years later every Sunday with a circle of samba players from due to busy schedules. In 2010, Jorge went Rio. During the 2006 carnival he shot a docu- on a 16-date tour of major US cities, and was mentary of his life for BBC London, which met with acclaim. In 2011 he released the aired on The South Bank Show and in Brazil, album Músicas para Churrasco Vol. 1, and on the US, and Europe. He opened concerts for November 20, National Black Awareness Day in singer Cesária Évora in New York, Boston, and Brazil, he recorded a DVD, released a year later. Washington, and hosted Gilles Peterson/CNN at Seu Jorge defines himself as a popular singer his home to film a concert, shown worldwide. He and songwriter who appreciates myriad musical toured the US and Canada, including the closing genres, but whose roots lie in samba: “Samba is of the Brazilian Film Festival (Miami); Bonnaroo our truth, our particularity, our gold medal, our Festival (Tennessee); Stern Grove Festival (San bastion, our Brazilian flag.” Francisco); Coastal Jazz Festival (Vancouver); Summerstage (New York); Montreal Jazz Festi- In addition to his music career, Jorge has been val; and Quebec City Summer Festival, among active in film as an actor and score composer.