Waldemar Bastos: Classics Of My Soul
Classics Of My Soul
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- Label: enja, 2012
- Erscheinungstermin: 4.6.2012
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Kultur und Krieg gehen schwer zusammen. So ist es auch in Angola. Über dem seit Jahrzehnten tobenden und erst 2002 beigelegten Bürgerkrieg hat man die reiche musikalische und kulturelle Tradition des Landes fast vergessen. Einer, der sich um sie kümmert und ihre Entwicklung vorantreibt, ist Waldemar Bastos. In der ehemaligen Hauptstadt des alten Königreiches, Mbanza, kommt er 1954 zur Welt. Seine Eltern fördern sein musikalisches Talent mit all ihren begrenzten Mitteln. Im Alter von acht Jahren trifft Waldemar eine Entscheidung: Ein Fahrrad oder Musikunterricht bei einem Lehrer. Er entscheidet sich für Letzteres und legt damit den Grundstein seiner internationalen Karriere. Bereits als Jugendlicher tourt er durchs ganze Land um Anlässe jeglicher Art musikalisch zu begleiten. Das ist sowohl unter der portugiesischen Kolonialherrschaft, die 1974 in Folge der „Nelkenrevolution“ endet, als auch danach kein stolperfreies Unterfangen. . 1982 kommt er nach Portugal als er im offiziellen Auftrag seines Landes zum portugiesischen FITEI-Theater-Festival geschickt wird. Er kehrt nicht nach Angola zurück. Sein Weg führt ihn über Berlin nach Brasilien, wo er sich vorerst niederlässt. Schnell etabliert er sich in der dortigen Szene und nimmt schließlich sein Debütalbum „Estamos Juntos“ (EMI/Odeon) auf. Sein zweites Album ist „Angola Minha Namorada“, das 1990 auch in seiner Heimat Angola veröffentlicht wird. Mitte der 90er stolpert David Byrne, die Talking Heads Mastermind, während eines Lissabon-Aufenthaltes über eine Aufnahme von Waldemar Bastos. Kurzer Hand lädt er ihn ein, auf „Adventures In Afropea 3: Telling Stories To The Sea“ mitzuwirken, das 1995 auf Byrnes Kult-Label Luaka Bop erscheint. 1998 folgt das von Arto Lindsay produzierte „Pretaluz“, mit dem Bastos der endgültige Durchbruch gelingt. Als 2002 der Bürgerkrieg in Angola ein Ende findet, lädt ihn die neue Regierung als musikalischen Ehrengast ins Nationalstadion nach Luanda, der neuen Hauptstadt, ein; dort tritt er vor 200.000 Zuhörern auf.
Classics of my Soul ist seine neueste Produktion, in Los Angeles und London von Derek Nakamoto produziert. Die leichtfüßigen Kompositionen des gut gelaunten Albums zeichnen ein farbenfrohes Bild des Gitarristen und Sängers, der mehr denn je Frieden und Optimismus besingt.
Waldemar Bastos was born near the border with Zaire in N’Banza Congo, a little town which was the first capital city of the ancient kingdom of Angola. He started singing at a very early age. “One day, my father ar-rived home and found me playing his concertina. In the following Christmas he gave me an accordion as a gift...” From then on, a young Waldemar dedicated his heart and soul to music. Since money was scarce, the little kid chose music lessons over the possibility of getting a bicycle. “For many years, since I was a kid, I was in various bands, and travelled throughout Angola playing all kinds of music: pop, rock, blues, tangos, waltzes. My music is defined by my own life experiences, praise for Angolan identity, and a call for universal brotherhood. It is gratifying for me to hear critics say, as it recently happened in the USA, that my music is universal. That it is not a regional music, but instead for people everywhere.”
In the meantime, Angola won its independence and followed the long socialist road. Bastos went to Portugal and later to Berlin and from there to Brazil, where he became acquainted with some well known musicians, such as Chico Buarque, João do Vale, Elba Ramalho, Djavan and Clara Nunes who had been in Angola in the late seventies. Waldemar finds EMI-Odeon, and records his first album, “Estamos Juntos”. He recorded his second album, the highly praised “Angola Minha Namorada”, five years later. In 1990 he visited Angola, and did a concert before 200.00 people in Luanda. While travelling through Lisbon, David Byrne, the master-mind of Luaka Bop record label, and ex-leader of the “Talking Heads”, bought, by chance, a record of the Angolan singer in a downtown Lisbon shop. Soon after that Waldemar would be featured in the album “Afro-pea – Telling Stories to the Sea”, an anthology of Lusophone artists issued by Luaka Bop. Afterwards there was “Pretaluz / Blacklight”, recorded in NYC, produced by Arto Lindsay, and issued by Luaka Bop. The New York Times described it as “one of the best World music records of the decade”. In the aftermath of “Preta-luz / Blacklight”, Waldemar won the “Award for the Emerging Artist of the Year (1999)”. In 1998, Waldemar was discovered by the European audience and media. After his successful tours in Europe as the opening act at the UNESCO Festival “Don’t forget Africa“ in June 2000 in the Canary Islands. Later in the year he was invited by Mr. Ruichi Sakamoto to take part in the „Zero-Landmine“ project in cooperation with international artists like Arto Lindsay, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Jacques Morelenbaum. Bastos is included in Tom Moon’s legendary book “1000 recordings to hear before you die”, and three of his compositions were featured in the Hollywood movie The Sweepers . He received several invitations by Prince Ernst August von Hanover and Princess Caroline von Hanover in the course of which he also gave a private concert for Rainier III. Another highlight was the “Bal de Roses” in Monaco in 2004.
(enjarecords. com)
,,Von Angola aus in die ganze Welt: ein Album der musikalischen Völkerverständigung." (stereoplay, August 2012)
,,Manches klingt angenehm weltmusikalisch, anderes doch ziemlich exotisch, aber eben nicht schräg. Diese Musik ist bestimmt nicht jedermanns Sache, aber Unvoreingenommenheit hilft beim Zuhören weiter." (Good Times, Oktober / November 2012)
Classics of my Soul ist seine neueste Produktion, in Los Angeles und London von Derek Nakamoto produziert. Die leichtfüßigen Kompositionen des gut gelaunten Albums zeichnen ein farbenfrohes Bild des Gitarristen und Sängers, der mehr denn je Frieden und Optimismus besingt.
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Waldemar Bastos was born near the border with Zaire in N’Banza Congo, a little town which was the first capital city of the ancient kingdom of Angola. He started singing at a very early age. “One day, my father ar-rived home and found me playing his concertina. In the following Christmas he gave me an accordion as a gift...” From then on, a young Waldemar dedicated his heart and soul to music. Since money was scarce, the little kid chose music lessons over the possibility of getting a bicycle. “For many years, since I was a kid, I was in various bands, and travelled throughout Angola playing all kinds of music: pop, rock, blues, tangos, waltzes. My music is defined by my own life experiences, praise for Angolan identity, and a call for universal brotherhood. It is gratifying for me to hear critics say, as it recently happened in the USA, that my music is universal. That it is not a regional music, but instead for people everywhere.”
In the meantime, Angola won its independence and followed the long socialist road. Bastos went to Portugal and later to Berlin and from there to Brazil, where he became acquainted with some well known musicians, such as Chico Buarque, João do Vale, Elba Ramalho, Djavan and Clara Nunes who had been in Angola in the late seventies. Waldemar finds EMI-Odeon, and records his first album, “Estamos Juntos”. He recorded his second album, the highly praised “Angola Minha Namorada”, five years later. In 1990 he visited Angola, and did a concert before 200.00 people in Luanda. While travelling through Lisbon, David Byrne, the master-mind of Luaka Bop record label, and ex-leader of the “Talking Heads”, bought, by chance, a record of the Angolan singer in a downtown Lisbon shop. Soon after that Waldemar would be featured in the album “Afro-pea – Telling Stories to the Sea”, an anthology of Lusophone artists issued by Luaka Bop. Afterwards there was “Pretaluz / Blacklight”, recorded in NYC, produced by Arto Lindsay, and issued by Luaka Bop. The New York Times described it as “one of the best World music records of the decade”. In the aftermath of “Preta-luz / Blacklight”, Waldemar won the “Award for the Emerging Artist of the Year (1999)”. In 1998, Waldemar was discovered by the European audience and media. After his successful tours in Europe as the opening act at the UNESCO Festival “Don’t forget Africa“ in June 2000 in the Canary Islands. Later in the year he was invited by Mr. Ruichi Sakamoto to take part in the „Zero-Landmine“ project in cooperation with international artists like Arto Lindsay, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Jacques Morelenbaum. Bastos is included in Tom Moon’s legendary book “1000 recordings to hear before you die”, and three of his compositions were featured in the Hollywood movie The Sweepers . He received several invitations by Prince Ernst August von Hanover and Princess Caroline von Hanover in the course of which he also gave a private concert for Rainier III. Another highlight was the “Bal de Roses” in Monaco in 2004.
(enjarecords. com)
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,,Von Angola aus in die ganze Welt: ein Album der musikalischen Völkerverständigung." (stereoplay, August 2012)
,,Manches klingt angenehm weltmusikalisch, anderes doch ziemlich exotisch, aber eben nicht schräg. Diese Musik ist bestimmt nicht jedermanns Sache, aber Unvoreingenommenheit hilft beim Zuhören weiter." (Good Times, Oktober / November 2012)
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 M'biri! M'biri!
- 2 Humbi humbi yangue
- 3 Teresa Ana
- 4 Tata ku matadi
- 5 Pôr do sol
- 6 Aurora
- 7 Muxima
- 8 Calçao roto no rabo
- 9 Perto e longe
- 10 N'duya
- 11 Velha xica