If there’s one song that evokes a perfect beach and a sexy scantily clad Brazilian girl it has to be the Girl from Ipanema. The Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moares song of the 60’s was influenced by the lifestyle and perfection that beach had for them growing up there but it was another Jobim song that Cecilia Kemezys, Reinaldo Portillo-Castro and Gilmar Munoz sang at the concert at the Embassy of Brazil, One Note Samba, that the flute and guitars combination of this trio did justice to. That girl sashaying along her beach was left to our imagination, but there was more of Jobim, with his signature style of bossa nova, blues and jazz that was part of that wave of Brazilian music epitomised by Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66.
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Cicilia is a flautist and singer who studied jazz flute at the Canberra School of Music and after a trip to Brazil that lasted longer than she expected she’s developed her bossa-nova style that with guitarists Reinaldo Portillo-Castro and Gilmar Munoz, childhood friends from El Salvador, is a combination of the sounds of Brazil played beautifully by outsiders.
As a concert for embassy staff, friends and colleagues it was a little bit of home for the Brazilians and a lovely end of year concert for the embassy gearing up for all those travelers in 2014 for the World Cup.
