JORNAL DO BRASIL
Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, 07/09/80

Carioca - "Mistérios da Amazônia" - ( Mysteries of the Amazon)

Independent

By J.R. Tinhorão

" It is very good; it's instrumental "

…Among almost 40 albuns released in this second half of the 1980, there is one that stands out by its boldness and originality: the instrumental CD "Mistérios da Amazônia".

…Carioca creates in his "Mistérios da Amazônia" an inventive experience of percussion plus voice choir, not unfamiliar to the indigenous or oriental music (by the way, Carioca finds the right connection between both)…

…Side B of the disk iS entirely taken by the kind of descriptive poetry from the classic play "Mysteries of the Amazon", where Carioca recalls the longing of Villa Lobos in search of a musical language of Brazilian character, and, at the same time, universal…

…"Mistérios da Amazônia" is much more than a promise - it is a great reality in the field of creation of a kind of Brazilian music capable of using resources form the universal classic school without falling in the traps of imitation and triviality. "