Bodes & Elefantes

"one Of The First Memories I Have Of Guilherme Granado Is From Many Years Ago A Tape Where He Sings A Version Of The Bad Brains I Against I. And In All Fairness It Didn..T Come Out That Bad... But My Point It Is You Gotta Give Him Props Just To Have The Guts To Try To Sing That Song! And That When He Was Only 15 Or 16 Years Old!. More Than One Decade After That First Encounter Many Things Have Been Done By The Guy Always With Finesse From The Controled Aggression As The Bass Player For The Band Againe To The Subtle Explosion Playing A Little Of Everything With Hurtmold Including Many Other Projetcts In Between That. I Had The Luck To Witness Most Of Those Projects So I Can Safely Say The Guy Has Many Talents. "granose" Knows A Bunch. He Even Knows How To Play Instruments Now! I Say That Because Until Some Time Ago His Prime Instrument Was His Voice. And He Has An Encyclopedic Brain. Any Doubt You Have Just Do A "granado Google Search" And You Got It! That Melody That You Can..T Remember Who Wrote Or Wich Artist Did That Cover Art Just Ask Guilherme And You..Ll Have The Answer. The Youngster Has Many Stories In His Head And Aces In His Deck. And He Just Pulled A Fresh One A Collection Of Pearls Suitably Entitled Bodes & Elefantes. To Label The Record Is A Very Hard Task - Actually That Is Totally Unecessary And Useless. But What I Can Tell You About The Record Is That In It You Will Find A Great Combination Of Organic And Eletronic Sounds. Breaks Sampled Programmed Or Played By Him Live Beatiful Melodies And Some Improvisations As Well. Making A Long Story Short A Great Organic Blend Of Raw Spiritual Sounds. And Who Knows The Guy Knows That This Is What He Is About That Is His Sound. Once I Was Asked What Type Of Music I Was Making During A Certain Period And I Couldn..T Really Explain That. The Closest I Came Was This Lo-Fi/eletronic/organic/subtle/agressive. And Oddly Enough It Worked! So If I Had To Tell You Something To Let You Give Bodes & Elefantes A Spin I Would Repeat The Same Definition As Above. But I Would Add The Talent To The Thing. That Would Be The Closest I Would Get To A Fair Definition Of The Music That This Good Friend Of Mine Is Making. Guilherme Kind Of Agreed With Me When I Pitched Him My Definition. And Since He Is The Boss Here..." Felipe "smoot Operator" Narvaez read less