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VITOR ARAÚJO IS ONE OF THOSE ARTISTS CAPABLE OF ARTICULATING THE
BRAZILIAN AND WORLD-WIDE CLASSICAL MUSIC AVANT-GARDE WITH THE
UNDISPUTABLE ARTISTIC CONQUESTS OF EXPERIMENTAL-POP MUSIC OF HIS TIME.
HIS DIVERSE MUSICAL FORMATION, THE FORMS OF URBAN, POPULAR, AND FOLK
MUSIC, RELATED TO HIS HOMETOWN OF RECIFE (ONE OF THE GREATEST FOCAL
POINTS THAT CONGREGATES THE INDIGENOUS, EUROPEAN AND AFRO-DESCENT
PEOPLE IN BRAZIL) AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY, PERVADED THE AESTHETIC
FORMATION OF THE ARTIST. THIS IS VERIFIED EVEN IN HIS FIRST WORKS, IN
HIS DEBUT ALBUM TOC (2008) AND A/B (2012). NOW, IN HIS THIRD ALBUM,
THE TRADITIONAL CANDOMBLÉ RHYTHMS REVEAL THE PERFECT HARMONY BETWEEN
HIS INFLUENCES BOTH CLASSICAL AND ELECTRONIC. THE SOURCES BEQUEATHED
BY HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS AND THE INSTRUMENTAL SLOPE OF HIS SPIRITUAL
DISCIPLE TOM JOBIM; THE TIMBRE AND ACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS OF GYORGY
LIGETI; THE CYCLIC NARRATIVE POSSIBILITIES OPENED BY STEVE REICH; THE
REMODELING OF SOUND MANIPULATION TOOLS BY KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN; ARE
RELATED NOT ONLY TO THE VANGUARD OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC BUT EVEN TO THE
RHYTHMIC AND VOCAL EXPRESSIONS OF BRAZILIAN MUSIC.
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