Fernanda Takai and Pato Fu: Past, Present and Future
Ci ro HIRUMA
Nelson Motta defined in the booklet: "The music is a state of mind", citing Ronaldo Boscolo. It is exactly the idea that producers Ulhoa Motta and John wanted to pass the CD Where your eyes shine, from Fernanda Takai. The proposal was from the repertoire of an icon of bossa nova, Nara Leo, but add a musicality that is suited to the innovative style and personality of Takai and the sound of today.
"It says that I was there" is the voice of chad complemented by the intelligent touch of the guitar from John, who appears at the appropriate times. An attractive simplicity. "Lindon" moves in the opposite direction, brings verses complex, difficult to interpret, to Caetano and Gil: "torn apart, get hit, dogs on the streets, police watching the sun beating in fruit, bleeding." And the verses come out fluently through the voice of the singer. The electronic arrangements give a special touch to the composition.
In "Dark Light", the keyboards of Lulu Camargo recreate a more intimate and sad lyrics of this classic of Brazilian music. The counterpoint of this music is just the next, "Under the curls of her hair," by Roberto and Erasmo Carlos, programmed percussion and dynamic entusiamo to spare to make music one of the highlights of the CD. Moreover, this composition was a great moment in the show of chad Virada Cultural, in Sao Paulo.
The guitar's special guest Roberto Menescal brand "Insensatez", a homage to the work of Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Morais. Be the sky would be a typical northeastern Baião was not the metamorphosis electronics: the synthesizers are there to innovate and translate the music for the Century 21. "Odeon" and its climate faceiro, almost a Charleston, won one more point to the eclecticism of the CD.
"Canta Maria" by Ary Barroso, dominated by keyboards de Camargo, shows its beautiful lyrics: "planted a foot of rosemary incense to our beautiful little house as simplezinha which look like."
In the festive atmosphere, Fernanda Takai closes with "Hi Ta, in everything I did for you to like me," perfect ending to a CD irretocável.
The eyes shine with surprises for the future.
And the Duck Fu, how are you? Very well. 
One of the main qualities of the band has never been accommodating to pre-established formula, each new release brings, besides the irreverence, an innate creativity and a willingness to experiment.
It presents a future pro curious cover: a huge mechanical monster that is nothing more than a touch vinyl records. Incidentally, this exact moment when the vinyl starts to be the object of revival, in limited numbers, it is curious to know what the future awaits us: the long playing the CD, through the MP3 player.
And the music? The Pato Fu matured. And how. This is a CD quiet, where the band improved their sense of melody and technique. It is a job to find out details, that are subtle in each song. "30,000 feet", the song that opens the CD, is a ballad that recalls the psychedelic era, the Beatles influence in the late 1960s.
It is interesting to hear "Mama Papa", a theme song completely familiar with where the title becomes a rhythmic taken. Incidentally, this is the idea of the composition, which brings in suingue of bassist Ricardo Koctus and battery of doolphinn Tamietti the perfect complement.
"Hope" is an unusual music: listen to the clock, which indicates the issue of time of the title, arrangement of strings and effects of synthesizer that punctuate the music. Something wistful and something innovative, with the voice of chad precise and subtle.
Rewrite a great classic is a difficult task. Maintaining the same line sound and repeat the obvious or leaving for an unusual creation? In "Cities in Dust" by Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Pato Fu chose not surprising, for the second option. The base where electronic desfila the guitar by John Ulhoa, which follows a line staff, away from the original version.
"Woo!" It is time techno. Low battery and most of the programming electronics Lulu Camargo accentuate a climate mild, dancing. Undoubtedly, the guy has hit.
Changing the course completely, "Vagalume" is the most intimate music, simplicity, the guitar and voice of John Takai.
"1,000 Cutters" leads us to France, by the fifteenth century, after all, the title is irreverent: the physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed this method as more humane to "harvest" human lives.
While Fernanda Takai has declared that Pato Fu is still priority in his career, the truth is that his solo CD complements the duck Fu, and vice versa. Who comes out winning is the public.
