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01. Pereyra Agustin Lucena Quartet - 3 Horas Da Manha
02. Pereyra Agustin Lucena Quartet - Samba Do Aviao
03. Pereyra Agustin Lucena Quartet - Tema Medieval
04. Pereyra Agustin Lucena Quartet - Despues De Las Seis
05. Pereyra Agustin Lucena Quartet - Tema Barroco
06. Pereyra Agustin Lucena Quartet - La Rana
07. Pereyra Agustin Lucena Quartet - Pra Que Chorar
08. Pereyra Agustin Lucena Quartet - Encuentro De Sombras
ARTIST
TITLE
La Rana
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
FARO 227CD FARO 227CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/7/2022

Far Out Recordings present a reissue of Argentinian guitarist Agustín Pereyra Lucena's 1980 album La Rana. Recorded in Oslo, La Rana features Agustín's stunning takes on compositions by Ivan Lins, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Agustín's friend and musical hero Baden Powell. In addition to these, and a number of Agustín's own compositions including the fifteen-minute masterpiece "Encuentro De Sombras", the album's title track is an idiosyncratic version of Joao Donato's "A Rã" (The Frog) from his 1973 album Quem É Quem. Forming the rest of the quartet are two fellow Argentinians who were also Agustin's bandmates from the group Candeias: bassist and multi-instrumentalist Guillermo Reuter and flautist Ruben Izarrualde; with Norwegian drummer Finn Sletten on drums and percussion. Throughout La Rana you hear not only Agustín's fabled guitar playing, which ascended him to share stages with the likes of Vinicius de Moraes, Dorival Cayymi, Toquinho, Maria Bethania, Chico Buarque, and Quarteto Em Cy, but also his talent as a vocalist. He also provided the heartening illustration for the cover art, which perfectly fits the cordial, inviting tone of the music. Inspired in equal measure by South American rhythms and Norwegian glaciers, mountains and waterfalls, La Rana is filled with the warmth, humility and sincerity of a man seizing a joyful moment in life through music.