DE OLIVEIRA, JOCY
RAGA NA AMAZONIA (DISCOS NADA)
For the first time on vinyl, this compilation brings excerpts from electroacoustic pieces written by Jocy de Oliveira from 1987 to 1993.
Jocy is considered a pioneer in avant-garde electroacoustic music in Brasil, also as a pianist, working with famous 20th-century musicians like Igor Stravinsky, Oliver Messiaen, Cláudio Santoro, Luciano Bério, John Cage, K.H.
Stockhausen and Xenakis. Her main musical tools are human voice, Yamaha TX and DX7 synthesizers, woodwind instruments, tablas, electric violin, and less traditional instruments from other cultures.
In her pieces, Jocy talks about imagination, mythologies connected to the sacred feminine and contemporary physics cosmology.
This album is dedicated to a production that goes from the mid 80s to the early 90s. On side A, "Oniric" presents electronic music performed in real-time along with voice.
The following pieces are two ragas: "Telling of a raga", and "Raga in the Amazon " and last is "Solaris" with Ricardo Rodrigues on reeds and oboe.
Jocy plays synthesizers/keyboards in all tracks and is accompanied by great musicians as Ayrton Pinto, Joseph Celli, Sang Won Park, Ricardo Rodrigues and Anna Maria Kieffer.
The LP comes with an insert with unseen photos and two texts, one by Jocy de Oliveira and other by the musician and researcher Paulo Beto.