RAPHAEL GIMENES & AS MONTANHAS DE SOM
It is a great pleasure for me as an independent record company, to introduce you to the young upcoming Brazilian star, Raphael Gimenes. He impressed the musicians from Danish Radios Big Band when working with them, and he straight away impressed me when he wrote me for a collaboration. I think I went one minute into the first song on his album, when I responded with a big YES.
Raphael's music is mesmerizing, magic, calming, deep, subtle, rich, personal, imaginative, detailed, elegant, indispensable. It reminds me of my first love with The Beatles and my first loves with Jobim and Gilberto. The album is all what an album should be: A musical experience!
Carolina Vallejo, One World Records 2016
"The finest Brazilian album coming out this year is from Denmark and by Raphael Gimenes & As Montanhas de De Som. What an incredibly beautiful, timeless super album, with rich arrangements, and full of beautiful Brazilian nostalgia. The songs are all equally beautiful, the arrangements are super rich and the way the album is made up entirely convincing. Unbelievable that this is a debut. It is an absolutely phenomenal debut’ Dick Hovenga, www.writteninmusic.com
‘An exotic, melancholic gem of an authentic artist' Jan Willem, subjectivisten.nl
'So richly and brilliantly colored, that the songs touch straight in the heart' Jazzism
'I have rarely heard so much near-perfect splendor on one disc' Rootstime
'Enchanting Brazilian atmosphere' Heaven
'An almost idyllic world is created here, out of Brazilian folk-jazz and poetic introspection' Pop Magazine Heaven
Top 5 Best Albums Hit-Tracks 2016
Top 10 Best Albums Written in Music 2016
Top 30 Transglobal World Music Chart 2017
Top 15 Radio Taiffa Mexico 2017
'Raphael Gimenes & As Montanhas de Som' is the debut album by the Europe-based Brazilian singer, guitarist, and composer, who won 3rd prize from DPA & Danish Radios Big Band's Award 'New Jazz Name of the Year 2016'
The music blends Brazilian folklore with classical music, ambitious harmonies with psychedelic effects, and African-Brazilian rhythms with classical guitar. Raphael’s music is atmospheric, elegant and at times melancholic. It is a concept album, in which stories about longing, love, hardship, and hope, flow into one another, like a theater play with its different acts.
