Lelo Nazario

condition (record/cover): NM / EX

Insert included. | One of the most singular and coveted artifacts of Brazilian experimental music. Lelo Nazario, born in São Paulo in 1956, belongs to a generation of Brazilian musicians who came of age amid the convergence of post-bop jazz, European avant-garde currents, and the radical strain of Brazilian popular invention. At seventeen he joined the circle around Hermeto Pascoal; with his brother, drummer Zé Eduardo Nazário, and bassist Zeca Assumpção, he formed the core of Grupo Um, whose Marcha Sobre a Cidade (1979) is widely considered the first instrumental album in Brazilian music. In 1980 he established the Utopia Studio in São Paulo, where a new and more solitary practice began to take shape.

Discurso Aos Objetos is the product of sessions spread across three continents - NHK Radio in Tokyo, the 'ndrs' studio in Munich, Norte Magnético in São Paulo - a logistics that itself speaks to the ambition of the project. The work is electroacoustic in the strict sense: a composition for tape alone, assembling a universe of concrete, electronic, spoken, and instrumental sound into eight concentrated minutes of argument with the material world. Balada Unidimensional, composed in 1982, takes a different approach - the tape here organized in intimate relation to the classical guitar of Paulo Bellinati, each electronic element calibrated to the timbral subtlety of the instrument, the two voices woven together in a structure that is simultaneously rigorous and breathtaking.

A 12" of extraordinary rarity and depth, collecting the two extremes of Nazario's electroacoustic practice into a single artifact of the highest order. UT, UT-17.532, 1984.