Project - Camerata by Renato Velasco
Project - Camerata by Renato Velasco
The Camerata of guitarist Renato Velasco is a very important project inThis marks the culmination of my artistic journey as a guitarist and composer. After a long career as a soloist and accompanist, this is a culmination that fulfills my determination as a composer.A musician passionate about the guitar and researching different music and instruments. La Camerata favors the fusion of Brazilian musical roots (Samba, Baião, Choro…) and traditional genres from the five regions of Brazil (Musica Caipira, Guarania, Lundu, Capoeira music…) with arrangements derived from classical and jazz musical conceptions.
The repertoire, consisting of his own compositions, is also enriched by music from Brazilian composers and other nationalities. He invites us on a cultural journey through a Brazil of tropical atmospheres and diverse sounds.
In this project he is accompanied by five musicians: a string trio (violin, viola and cello), with flute and percussion.
Renato Velasco, master of the seven-string guitar and the Viola Caipira, enriches some pieces of his concert with vocals. With a minimalist and expressionistic style characteristic of the singer-songwriter, the emphasis is placed on emotion rather than vocal technique.
His interpretation and inspiration come as much from traditional Brazilian music as from improvised music or influences from so-called classical music.
Eye of Time (Composer - Renato Velasco / Author - Agenor de Oliveira)
Waxing moon
Heavenly seed
Tear through the darkness, floating.
Make your shine shine
The guide in the wilderness
Solo of emotion
From my singing
Pour forth your silver bed
On the chest of a child of the sun
And he throws his hoarse voice into the turbulent waters (closed "o")
Stored on an atoll
Preserves the forest of the Serra-Chibata mountain range.
With a dagger-verse
And release your eye of time into the wind.
An invention of good against evil.
Your unerring ray is an arm of light.
Finally, caress me, party animal.
Of blue stars, like this
Made into a cloak
With the power of true passion
And singing is the craft of my heart.
It became an addiction.
A journey to live a whole life.
Waterfall stone song
It is prayer, it is weeping, it is the Brazilian voice.
Explosion (Renato Velasco )
The musicians who participated in these videos:
(compositions and arrangements) - Renato VELASCO
Paroles - Agenor DE OLIVEIRA
Flute - Martina MIHAYLOVA
Violon – Matthieu LECOMTE
High - Philippa WELCH
Cellos - Julie EYCHENNE
Percussions - Dada VIANA
Mineirice (Composer - Renato Velasco)
Author - Agenor de Oliveira - Dec. 2009)
From the Saga in the Land of Minas Gerais
I see the cart in front of the oxen.
On the Hill...
Almost a Boy
I Travel on the Road Without End
More Than Destiny
It's the landscape that won't leave me.
Life With the Haste of the Wind
It's always torment, in vain.
It's a vacancy.
Whirlwind of Time
In My Heart
(Instrumental)
From Life on Stage and in the World
Sonorous Leap in the Blue Waters
Deeper
And Nature
Transform the Creek into a Castle
All the Beauty
It's Just a Current Without a Link
I carry the memory in my fingers.
And the Story in the Lines of the Hand
That Caresses
Old Secrets in the Junk
From My Guitar
New Life (Renato Velasco)
Group description:
The group is made up of traditional and classical musicians, two musicians experienced in Brazilian music and jazz, and four classically trained musicians: two French, one English, and one Bulgarian. This meeting of musicians from different styles creates an alchemy that transports the audience into a new musical world created in Paris, a world full of emotion with original arrangements.
Bay of Arabs (Renato Velasco)
Project Evolution:
La Camerata brings originality and innovation to concerts thanks to the participation of painters, sculptors and scenographers; it is indisputably a meeting of arts, sounds and images.
Visual artist Lucinha MAMOS-MOREAUX is the first guest of this project. She draws inspiration from the Camerata's live music to create paintings in front of the audience.
We regularly perform concerts as part of your artistic activities (festivals, theatre, concerts for town halls, youth centres, café-theatres...)
Strange shortcut (Renato Velasco)
Returning to Rio (Composer - Renato Velasco / Author - Agenor de Oliveira)
Oh, how I wish I could stay.
My heart doesn't say goodbye.
The afternoon fades into the blue of the sea.
And emotion makes you cry.
In a gift that comes from God
Back in Rio to samba!
So many friends I came to see again
Life goes loose in the air.
My guitar will play
A sound for the well-being
I go
Enjoying some good beans
And the beautiful sky
I want
Dragging your foot on the ground
From infinity
My verse written on the palm.
In each hand
Will you hug me?
My brother
Chopp num bar
Na Lapa, então
Fazendo agito
A morena vai sapatear
Na inspiração
De um peito aflito
Vou me esbaldar
No Portelão
Pandeiro e apito
Ai quanta saudade pra levar
Não é sonho não
Eu acredito..Nouveau paragraphe
Repertoire of the Camerata aboutRenato Velasco
EYE OF TIME (Guarania) - South
BAIAO DO ARABE (Baiao/Chaby) - Nord-Est/Algerie
STRANGE SHORTCUT (Lundu) - North
EXPLOSAO (Fusion/Galope) - Nord-Est
MINEIRICE (Oratorio / Tambor de Minas/Jongo) - South-East
RETURNING TO RIO (Samba) - South-East
NEW LIFE - (Afoxé / Capoeira) - Northeast/Bahia
BIRD'S FLIGHT (afoxe/baião) - Northeast
Lament in the Slum (Samba) - South-East
SOUTH ZONE (Samba/Funk) - South East
MARACATU N°1 (Maracatu) - Northeast
RESIDUO (March 3/4) Fusion - Sud-Est
FREE FLIGHT - (Caboclinho) - Northeast
Photo from Renato's 50th Anniversary Concert, 24/09/2011
At the Théâtre de la Maison du Brésil in Paris
SOUND SYSTEM / TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Sound system for an average-sized room
(Concert for 100 to 300 people):
1 sound engineer.
1 16-channel mixer with reverb
1 Amplifier (minimum 1200 Watts, with compatible speakers and bassoons).
4 Returns (120 Watts)
2 Microphones for vocals with stands
4 Microphones for string trio and flute
4 Microphones for percussion
6 DI (direct box) inputs for guitars
Sound systems for theatres, concert halls, amphitheaters...
(Large Concert for 300 people or more):
- 2 Sound Engineers
- Professional equipment compatible with the room.
- (Minimum 16-track mixer, reverb/equalizer…)
- 2 Compatible amplifiers for broadcast and monitors
- Several bass-enhancing speakers are compatible with the room
- 8. Returns and mixing console for the returns.
- White, amber, and multi-colored lighting…
- 4 Microphones for Voices
- 5 Microphones for percussion
- 4 Microphones for string trio and flute
- 6 DI (direct box) for guitars
