Feira Livre by Flavio Assis
Feira Livre is the second album of the bahian composer and singer Flávio Assis.
The main idea behind “Feira Livre” is to conceive its phonographic production as a “rhythmic crossroad”, a converging polyphonic reference.
The artist, whose style is genuinely pluralistic, proposes textual and melodic profusion, varied sonority, musical timbres and harmonic expressions. “I can only conceive my musicality based on the alignment and richness of my ancestor references in accordance with a contemporary representation”, points out the composer.
Produced by Roberto Mendes, Feira Livre, to be launched in November in Salvador Bahia, represents this polyphonic perspective. Its thirteen tracks depict the semba angolano, the capoeira, the samba-côco, maracatu, samba-reggae, the chula do Recôncavo Baiano, ijexá and the baião.
Aware of his ethnic and cultural matrix, Flavio Assis relies his voice and music on Afro-Brazilian traditions yet closely connected to contemporaneity.The Feira Livre album evokes the traditional together with the contemporary and unlike other similar attempts, the main essence is not taken away.
Tracklist
| 1. | Sexta-Feira | 4:14 |
| 2. | Cambuí | 4:03 |
| 3. | Embolá | 3:40 |
| 4. | Sertança | 4:36 |
| 5. | Feira Livre | 4:04 |
| 6. | Maria | 2:53 |
| 7. | Bouquet | 4:23 |
| 8. | Areia | 5:21 |
| 9. | Se Fosse Mar | 5:12 |
| 10. | Meias de Lã | 4:43 |
| 11. | Bembé do Mercado | 3:58 |
| 12. | Zabelê | 3:39 |
| 13. | Trezena | 3:51 |
