Andrew Rathburn Art Of The Duo Renderi CD - Import

When I was 15 years old, I'd started to be interested in Choro and Jazz, and because of the Music of Pixinguinha, I began to study the flute.

While I was attending Hermeto Paschoal's first show in 1972, in Rio de Janeiro, I found my calling in the complex diversity of World Music. After this show of Hermeto's, I attended shows by Egberto Gismonti, Victor Assis Brasil, Luis Eça, Tom Jobim, Azymuth, Milton Nascimento, Chick Corea, Bill Evans, and other great musicians who also influenced me.

About the albumThe recordings of the LP Bambu, were made between December of 1979 and January of 1980. The launch took place in 1981, at a show in Catacumba Park in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro.

The musicians who played on the LP were: Ricardo Silveira, Ze Nogueira, Antonio Sant'Anna, Leo Gandelman, Armando Marçal, Élcio Cáfaro, Daniel Garcia, Joca Moraes, Wilson Meireles, Marcelo Salazar, Marcelo Costa, Cafe, Damilton Viana, Cezão and the singer Eveline. When we recorded the album Bambu, we were starting our musical careers and after all of those years we are still great friends and partners and that is the biggest conquest of this record. A record that has opened many doors for all us.

I'd like to add that the drums player Jorge Autuori was a very close friend and he was a great inspiration for me during the time when we worked together with the singer Eliane Pitman, at the end of the seventies.