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Drum’n Flute (acoustic)
Carlos Malta
| Brazil
There are few flautists who come close to matching Carlos Malta's brilliance, his coloristic range, or his drive, and fewer still who so satisfyingly combine all those qualities. Malta, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger, was part of Hermeto Pascoal's O Grupo for twelve years, which afforded great on-the-job experience to formulate ideas that have paid enormous dividends within Malta's own groups. Incorporating influences from classical, folk, jazz, and indigenous music, Malta has evolved a highly personal eclecticism. Casually glancing at his discography leaves little doubt of his importance to contemporary Brazilian music.
There is similarly little doubt that some of his most impressive work lies outside the popular music arena. Malta's Pife Muderno project, very much a modern part of the Northeastern bandas de pífano ethos and unlike any other form of Brazilian music, is ruled by its instrumentation and repertory. Consisting of flutes and drums, bandas de pífano are widely spread throughout the Brazilian Northeast.
Malta draws from a pool of his extremely versatile peers to create an ensemble that mirrors the heart and soul, the sound and aesthetic, of bandas de pífano. Malta and Andréa Ernest Dias, both phenomenal, full-on, in-your-face flute players with distinctive voices, are fully capable of going within the space of a few bars from a ceaseless torrent of ideas to almost tender, rhapsodic melodicism. At their side is the spirited rhythm and tumultuous fireworks of percussionists Marcos Suzano and Bernardo Aguiar (pandeiro), Oscar Bolão (caixa and pratos), and Durval Pereira (zabumba).
It is the mark of an artist that he takes what he needs, from whatever source, and turns it into something much deeper and more meaningful than it was before. With simple instruments that have become cultural symbols of local identity, Pife Muderno represents both a link with the past and a continuing living and changing form of music making that satisfies present-day needs and tastes.
