Composer, musician and writer Vitor Ramil is since a long time one of the finest names of the Brazilian Popular Music, with an off-media career but many fans. Marcos Suzano is a great percussionist who played with many of the best brazilian musicians. In 2007, these two artists joined to make "Satolep Sambatown", a great CD of new Ramil compositions.

Joshua Rifkin (born April 22, 1944 in New York) is an American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist. He is best known by the general public for having played a central role in the ragtime revival in the 1970s with the three albums he recorded of Scott Joplin's works for Nonesuch Records. The albums - which were presented as classical music recordings - were critically-acclaimed, commercially successful and led to other artists exploring the ragtime genre. Rifkin's work as a revivalist of Joplin's work immediately preceded the adaptation of Joplin's music by Marvin Hamlisch for the film The Sting (1973).

The excelent Milos Forman film on the 1920's based on the Doctorow novel has a marvelous musical translation in this soundtrack close to perfection, nominated in 1981 for two Oscar prizes (best film score, best song). Wonderful melodies, great songs and all the ragtime pre-jazz era spirit.

On Trem Caipira, Gismonti reworks music by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, mainly with a synthesizers-sound and an acoustic band. A project like this could go awfully wrong. Well, it doesn't. In spite of the fact that some of those synths sounds are hopelessly dated, the music has a charm of its own. This is due to the quality of Gismonti's arrangements, to the musicians who add warmth with their acoustic instruments, and last not least, to the music of Villa-Lobos.

Egberto Gismonti is one of the finest brazilian musicians ever. As well as a piano and guitar virtuoso, he's a wonderful composer and arranger. This CD, a release of his own label, Carmo, brings to us studio and live piano versions of some of his classics, like "Frevo", "Palhaco", "Loro", "7 anéis" and other true gems.

Almost 30 yrs old, this recording is a revelation to Hermetologists that did not have access to it before, and for newcomers to the sounds of O Bruxo, this cd contains some of Hermeto's most accessable and most abstract compositions, blended together like a delicious feijoada!