Radio1: „...Diese CD ist wie eine Sonnendusche...“
Deutschlandradio:
„Unter dem Namen "Vaitano" hat er nun seine Version des Bossa Nova eingespielt
und verbindet spielerisch brasilianische Klänge mit dem Berliner Flair....“
Tagesspiegel (Tagestip): „Die eigentliche Leidenschaft des Jazzgitarristen liegt aber in den musikalischen Traditionen Brasiliens zu denen er mit seinem Album Bahia Berlin den Bogen schlägt. Als Vaitano frönt er dem Klang der Bossa Nova und den komplexen Rythmen der Musica Popular Brasileira“
Silverdisc - Auszeichnung „Band des Monats“: „[Vaitano] hat sich voll und
ganz ... der Musik Brasiliens [verschrieben] Samba, Jazz, brasilianische Boleros
und Afrobeats - das sind die musikalischen Stile, von denen sich der Musiker
Vaitano ... vor mehr als zwanzig Jahren hat infizieren lassen und die er der Einfachheit halber unter dem Oberbegriff „Bossa Nova" zusammenfasst.“
Radiointerview auf radio 1:
Zum Silverdisc Podcast:
Vaitano is a Berlin based guitar player, singer, composer and songwriter.
He is addicted to Brasilian music.
Coming from Jazz, he is in eternal love with Bossa Nova, also having hot affairs with Afrosamba, Brazilfunk, Sambareggae and other grooves.
He was influenced by the great Brazilian songwriters: Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil,
Caetano Veloso, Jorge Benjor, Djavan and Milton Nascimento.
He also loves Chet Baker, George Benson, Charles Mingus and Baden Powell.
He is a fanatic fan of Joao Gilberto.
After studying at a German jazz school, he spent
several years in Salvador/Bahia, where his musical personality was formed.
„Wordless the young musician left – torn between two passions:
Bahia (Brazil) and life.
Now however Vaitano returned with his music to the beaches of Bahia, to
Tia Dadi (Aunt Dadi), who calls the winds and calmes the sea, to the Afrobeats and Bossa Nova, always
somewhere swaying gently through the day.
Inbetween lie 25 years in which the memories of his time in Brazil matured
into an acoustic whole – now pressed on CD for the first time.
Full of relish he lets Berlin and Bahia, carneval and social criticism, Bolero and
Samba, afro-Bahian infuences, Jazz and rock music mingle on this CD.
He sings to his lover, the town of Salvador da Bahia. She is the woman, whom
he asserts to come back one day (“Voltar depois”). Like Tia Dadi summoning the winds, he summons her native soil („Africa Bacana“), her energy („Berlino
Bahianense“) und her
Gods („Ogun“).
In Brazilian fashion Vaitano had incorporated the seemingly eternal “other”
carrying it through his life in the form of inner soundtracks.
With “Bahia-Berlin” Vaitano now pays a very personal tribute to the eclectic Brazilian music.“
by Imke Wangerin
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