“You can quite easily forget that piano is a percussion instrument, but when you hear the playing of Amaro Freitas, it suddenly becomes very, very clear” (Cerys Matthews/BBC). Freitas’s journey from local acclaim in Recife in Brazil’s North-East to a major international profile has been rapid. Ed Motta noted of his debut album in 2016: “Amaro Freitas is writing a very important chapter of instrumental music produced in Brazil.” Freitas’s third album “Sankofa” (2021, on London-based Far Out Recordings) is a spiritual quest into the forgotten stories, ancient philosophies and inspirational figures of Black Brazil and is his most stunning and sincere work to date.
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Amaro Freitas (p)
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