Vila, the new symphonic samba jazz album by prolific Brazilian guitarist Fabiano do Nascimento, feels like both his most intimate and his most grandiose, as he tries to keep the idyllic minimalism of his style of acoustic guitar while striving for the expressive radiance of 1960s noir film scores. Nascimento, now a fixture of the Los Angeles jazz scene, wanted the record to pay tribute to the street he grew up in Rio, an enclosed alleyway in the old neighborhood of Catete . .
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Fabiano Do Nascimento :: Mundo Solo
Fabiano do Nascimento seems weary of the “Brazilian music” label, at least when it ties him to particular artistic expectations. He prefers to aim for an impossible universality than to ever be pigeonholed to an ideal of national sound. His new solo material, out via Brazilian music aficionados Far Out, complicates this ambivalence.