Member Since: 04/03/2008
Band Website: WWW.RENATOBORGHETTI.COM.BR
Band Members: Marcos Borghetti / Produtor (51) 8123.8956 [email protected]; Sabina Schebrak / Produtora na Europa [email protected]; Daniel Sá / Guitarra - [email protected]; Pedro Figueiredo / Sax e Flauta - [email protected]; Vitor Peixoto / Teclado e Piano - [email protected]; Hilton Vaccari / Violão - [email protected]; Kako Pacheco / Percussão - [email protected]; Ricardo Baumgarten / Baixo - [email protected]; Marquinhos Fe / Bateria - [email protected]
Influences: Renato Borghetti..s music is unusual in Brazilian recording for being so firmly centered in the folkloric elements of his native Rio Grande do Sul , na area in the southernmost part of Brazil , which shares a border with Argentina . Music of the area is often associated with the gauchos and with the accordion . The accordion may be best known in Brazilian music as important to music from the northeastern section of Brazil – but the southern area from which Renato Borghetti hails has its own accordion , a button – box known as gaita ponto .The gaita ponto – driven folk of Rio Grande do Sul possesses great power and intensity . With that music , Borghetti has enjoyed a degree of success surprising for any artist who remains faithful to his folk roots . Not that Renato Borghetti..s music is hidebound or purist : Borghetti has revised , adapted , and modernized many of the native tunes of Rio Grande do Sul; he does not shy away from more typical forms from the wide spectrum of Brazilian and global pop – samba , jazz, tango , and beyond. Each of those forms he adapts to his unique style of accordion playing .The accordion..s journey thorough Brazilian music dramatizes the many elements and influences of Brazilian music – and society – itself . Brazilian music has so many conflicting and harmonizing influences that the painful , creative histories of pre – Columbian America , European imperialism, and post – colonial struggles can be heard in its strains. The accordion is first a European instrument , popular in many variations among working people throughout the European continent , with particularly recognizable styles rooted in southern Europe . It was the Portuguese colonists who first brought the accordion to Brazil – but twentieth – century Italian immigrants their own influences to Brazilian playing .Brazilian folk styles of accordion playing were never , however , solely European . Accordionists quickly picked up chant – like and modal qualities from native people , violating the European dance forms ; to those odd blends were added the complex , syncopated rhythms of the African slaves who became an important part of the country..s population during the Portuguese colonization . Thus did the development of Brazilian accordion music – taking place , for the most part , far from the musical centers of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador Bahia – parallel the development of more familiar Brazilian forms like samba , which also blended European dance and religious music with native influences and a powerful dose of African percussion.Parallels with the development of accordion playing in the southern part of the United States also come to mind : in bayou and Tex – Mex culture , French folk singing and dancing , the music of later German and other immigrants to Louisiana , and black , Latin , and native American rhythms combined to make the zydeco accordion an instrument of grater heat , intensity , and power than its antecedents could ever have suggested .It is perhaps just such intensity in Renato Borghetti..s accordion playing that has made him a popular mainstream artist even as he renovates the folk sounds of Rio Grande do Sul - a success that is all the more surprising for a musician who has generally focused on instrumental rather than vocal music . Brazilian listeners are sophisticated , at home with jazz and folk as well as with more accessible pop forms : Borghetti recorded his first album in 1984 , and it was instantly successful . Later albums were even more popular ; his second release , for example , was the first gold record in Brazil ever feature exclusively instrumental music .Renato Borghetti has also reached out from the older forms to samba and tango , among other styles . His playing is uncompromising in its loyalty to a folkloric past , adventurous in its openness to new ideas .William Hogeland
Record Label: Unsigned