JORGE LIMA BARRETO - CARLOS ZÍNGARO - KITS 2

JORGE LIMA BARRETO - CARLOS ZÍNGARO

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Jorge Lima Barreto - piano

Carlos Zíngaro - violin

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KITS 2

Flying Birds

Jorge Lima Barreto and Carlos Zingaro are two great musicians, but also formidable improvisers. We got used, along generations, to use the expression improvisation disregarding its deepest meaning; but practically all great musicians were fabulous improvisers. Cadences penetrated the entire baroque world and even Leonardo da Vinci, centuries before, was famous as an amazing lute improviser. It is the improvisation what keeps music alive. The history of the word improvisation alerts us to the absurd of the “non-compromise” meaning attributed to it. The prehistoric Indo European term *weid – which passed, almost directly, to our word vision – is the ancient root of the expression improvisation. When to that old term the Latin pre is associated, it passes to signify prevision, forecast, anticipation, as when we anticipate something that in some sense, or even partially, we already know. Later, another Latin particle emerges, indicating the impossibility of anticipation, prevision: and the word improvisation appears: surprise! But surprise can only happen where we already know, thus, the surprise, improvisation, demands a profound knowledge of its structural context. In neuronal terms it is the elaboration of long-term memory complexes through short-term memory strategies – like when we talk or walk. When we have great improvisers, we always have great masters. It is what happens with Jorge Lima Barreto and Carlos Zingaro. And when we have the rare meeting of enlightened souls like them, we meet the seed of miracle, of what is opposed to fate, contrary to destiny, what breaks causality’s web. It is when we have enlightenment, discovery, satori. It is the impulse free of rules, which starts from them and expands to the infinite, because freedom can never be incarcerated. Improvisation is a bird flying in liberty. Jorge Lima Barreto and Carlos Zingaro dive in that fly which surpasses the dimensions of ordinary life to create the foundations of the concrete world.

In this historical cd we have a rare recording. It reveals the secrets that join magical souls along more than forty years. In 1968, Jorge Lima Barreto and Carlos Zingaro created the Conceptual Music Association -  gesto, which means gesture – among the pioneers of the new improvised music. After that, both have regularly performed all over the world. In 1992, they recorded the first duo KITS for piano, violin, concrete and electroacoustic sounds at the legendary Numerica’s Aura studio. KITS 2 is from a live concert, pure acoustic and total impromptu; Jorge Lima Barreto is on piano, experimentalisms on keyboard and strings, and Carlos Zíngaro is on three different types of violin using unexpected techniques. KITS 2 is edicted on cd with no mix or mask.

This cd is unique; a historical recording of two great masters in music that is art.

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta

Locarno, Switzerland. 2008

1. I 08’46’’

2. II 0’525’’

3. III 15’55’’

4. IV 07’41’’

5. V 08’14’’

total 46’01’’

Ref.: NUM 1175