Born in Rio de Janeiro, Fernando Vilela’s music seems far from the shoreside luminosity of the “Wonderful City”, but rather it pulsates with the endless ridges of his parents homeland — the state of Minas Geraes, which gave the world masters like Milton Nascimento and Toninho Horta. Graduated in Psychology and Drama, Vilela started his musical career composing and performing soundtracks for tens of local theater productiona. In 2013 he released his first solo album as a songwriter – Quadro – enmeshing his winding and lyrical melodies with the baroque, at times gleeful, at others desperate arrangements by Thiago Amud. Antonio Carlos Miguel, arguably one of the most important critics of brazilian music, has said of the CD: “It’s a surprise, way ahead of the curve. There are echoes of the 60′s and 70′s, some of the stylistic freedom of Milton Nascimento and his encompassing Clube da Esquina, also advances on the path of Jobim and Villa Lobos, but it’s very far from mere copy. It’s contemporary music with identity!”
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 15:48:03 +0000
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