FYC – Best Latin Jazz Album
A new album by Bruna Black & John Finbury
Vã Revelação
Bruna Black – Vocals
Vitor Gonçalves -Piano, Rhodes, Accordion
Chico Pinheiro – Guitar
John Patitucci – Bass
Duduka Da Fonseca – Drums
Rogério Boccato – Percussion (1-6)
Percussion(9): Léo Rodrigues, Vinicinhos Magalhães & Caue Silva
Background Vocals (9): Vitor Gonçalves, Duduka Da Fonseca, Rubens Oliveira, André Maia Lima, Zuri Oliveira Santos, Beth Scott, Omisha Chaitanya, John Finbury, Ari Lavigna, Emilio D. Miler & Bruna Black.
Recorded by Ari Lavigna at The Powerstation @ Berklee NYC, assisted by Neal Shaw and Beth Scott
Percussion (Tracks 1-6) recorded by Rogério Boccato at Glass Door Studio
Percussion (Track 9) recorded by Ricardo Camera at Trama Nacena, assisted by Douglas Martins and Caio Laranjeira
Mixed by Ari Lavigna at Nómade Mix
Mastered by Carlos Freitas at Classic Master USA
Produced by Emilio D. Miler & John Finbury
Music by John Finbury
Lyrics by Bruna Black (7,9), Caro Pierotto & Grecco Buratto (4, 8), Thalma De Freitas (2), Vitor Ramil (6), Alexia Bomtempo (3, 5) & Apoena Frota (1).
English
Portuguese
About Vã Revelação
Bruna Black is the up & coming singer Brazil is raving about. A former semi-pro basketball player who grew up listening to her cousins singing in Church, and Sertanejo (aka Brazilian Country) Music at home, Bruna would reach the quarter-finals of the Brazilian edition of “The Voice” in 2020, just short of her 21st birthday.
Add Classical Vocal training, drums & percussion, and firm roots in Bossa and Brazilian popular song to the mix, and you get a multi-faceted artist with a rainbow of vocal colors and a rich story to tell.
Since 2021, Bruna has been a part of Avuá Duo, racking up millions of views for every video they released, and having just completed their first European Tour earlier this year.
John Finbury is an American composer with a flair for Brazilian-influenced music whose career recognition began in 2016 with a Latin Grammy nomination for Song Of The Year (for “A Chama Verde”), and an American Grammy nomination in Best Latin Jazz Album in 2020 (for “Sorte!”).
Vã Revelação Lyrics
1- Vã Revelação
Music by John Finbury, Lyrics by Apoena Frota
Dentro do Silêncio
Ante ao firmamento
Prefiro derramar-me em mar
Emaranhado ao fundo
No azul cinzento
O meu complemento vai
Perdido entre chão e ar
Na luz do devaneio
Vou ficar, me entregar
Até o sol nascer
Estrela sumindo devagar
Vem dissipar meu resplandecer
E vão ruindo todos os sentidos em contradição
Em sim, em não, em tudo o que estava contido em sua vã revelação
Breve pensamento
Breve o som, palavra
Que lavra sustentar o som
Que ostenta a própria alma
Dentro do espelho
Submerso em água
Deságua sempre, sem cessar
No curso em movimento
Vou ficar, me entregar
Até escurecer
Estrela surgindo devagar
Vem flamejar meu resplandecer
E vão ruindo todos os sentidos em contradição
Em sim, em não, em tudo o que estava contido em sua vã revelação
1- Vain Revelation
Music by John Finbury, Lyrics by Apoena Frota
Inside the Silence
Before the firmament
I prefer to pour myself into the sea
tangled in the depths
In ashy blue
my complement goes
Lost between ground and air
In the light of daydream
I will stay, let myself go
Until the sun rises
Slowly fading star
Come dissipate my glow
Contradicting senses go crumbling away
In yes, in no, in all that was contained in it’s vain revelation
Brief thought
Brief the sound, word
As swords sustain the sound
That flaunts its own soul
Inside the mirror
Submerged in water
It flows always, without ceasing
On the moving course
I will stay, let myself go
Until day turns into night
Star slowly rising
Come and blaze my glow
Contradicting senses go crumbling away
In yes, in no, in all that was contained in your vain revelation