Listening to: Bossa de Novo

BOSSA DE NOVO


Bossa de novo, the chamber jazz group, is the only Slovenian band which plays bossa nova. This type of music is a mixture of afrobrasilian rhythms, cool jazz and American west coast rhythms. Bossa de novo for the first time presens this enigmatic, in all respects asymmetric Slovenian music to audiences in different languages, especially in largely unknown Portugues.

Beside processing the most brilliant pieces of Brazilian composers (Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Joao Gilberto, Dorival Caymmi, ARY Barroso, Carlos Lyra) this group also uses rhythms and harmonies of other musical genres, eg. jazz standards and Slovenian national songs.

In May 2009 they released a new CD entitled NOVA. Music from the new disc premiered at the Festival Druga godba 2009.

Primož Vitez
Aljoša Kosor
Drago Ivanuša
Marko Gregorič
Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar