One Media® presents "Bossa Doce" by Nowhere Near (Latin Jazz with lite Electronica streaming mp3)
"Bossa Doce"
Latin Jazz Samba Bossa Nova with a touch of electronica
One Media® humbly offers a Bossa Nova for a Steemit Music League #smlchallenge season two, round eight (S2:R8) entry in a Latin Music theme...
Recorded April 15 through 17, 2018, Bossa Doce pays tribute to the Bossa Nova movement and particularly to the arrangements of the compositions by the Samba master Antonio Carlos Jobim. A tenor saxophone solo in this tune further acknowledges the recordings of Jobim's music that included Stan Getz. The theme alludes to feeling the sweet essence of Bossa Nova, especially the way Jobim and João Gilberto created it.
In this 32 bar ABAB song form, many of the composition devices that Jobim used were likewise implemented. Melody and harmonies based on the upper partials, particularly the ninth, and the flatted ninth, descending chromatic progression, circle of fourths and tritone substitution, all of which exhibit representations of modern Jazz, and Jobim himself had brought to Brazilian traditions. In doing so, Jobim both extended modern Jazz into Latin America as well as bring the highly syncopated rhythms of Brazilian folk music into Jazz and the rest of the world.
The tune opens with a melody played gently on an acoustic guitar patch, the guitar chosen to suggest the guitar Samba and Bossa Nova recordings of João Gilberto. Shakers, agogô, cabasa, bongo and conga drum sample patches were used to portray a typical Latin percussion section. A small string orchestra patch was also recorded to 'sweeten' the sound typical of the effect many producers in the late 1950's through early 1960's went after. Also for sweetener, the composer here added just a touch of pink sound filter-modulating synchronously to the eighth note beat, mainly to appease the craving for electronica that he and so many of his cohorts in the Steemit Music League have. The melody and all the aforementioned accompaniment go toward the gratitude the composer has for the sweet sound of the Bossa Nova.
Happy listening!
Zig