“Baleia” was composed for the Peixe Seco Quartet, group that I play Viola Caipira and Electric Guitar. Peixe Seco was created with the intention of being a brazilian music quartet for contemporary music that uses instruments related to the Brazilian tradition among other instruments of ocidental tradition. The instrumentation of the quartet is Pífano/Saxophone, Rabeca/Viola, Accordion/Piano and Viola Caipira/Electric Guitar. !
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This piece is part of the Album Vidas Secas (‘Barren Lives”), based on the novel ‘Vidas Secas” by Graciliano Ramos, and was composed collectively, mapping the ideas without standard notation. !
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Scene of the movie “Vidas Secas” directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos