Luiz Murá   World Songwriter

The team + project:

Luiz Murá, is a singer, guitar player and songwriter born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Released his first album in 2008 titled "Juquehy". Since then has played in concert houses, parks and streets (busking) all around the world. Some of the musicians that participated on his album were, Maria Gadú, Fabio Cadore,  Luiz Guelo (Zizi Possi) and Sylvio Mazzuca Jr.(Maria Rita)

Unit is a well-established Jazz duo from Blekinge, Sweden that is constantly looking for new musical challenges. The duo consists of Niclas Höglind (guitar and 8-string guitar) and Kristofer Johansson (percussion and drums). They worked together for over 14 years and made over 2000 concerts and workshops around europe. Besides a strong foothold in the local music scene in the south of Sweden, Unit has played with most of the Swedish jazz elite. Also toured and recorded with foreign guests as Gary Thomas (Miles Davis), Mitchel Forman (Wayne Shorter), Maúcha Adnet (Tom Jobim), Leni Stern (Wayne Krantz), Russell Gunn and Glenn Ferris.

 

links:

http://www.myspace.com/unitmib

http://soundcloud.com/ pinstripe8

Marcus Wiberg (guitar) born in Uppsala. Has been working and studying brazilian music since 2005. Based now in São Paulo, Brazil works with connections between Jazz, Fusion, Bossa, Choro and world music.

Sebastian Notini (percussion) born in Stockholm, has been living Brazil for the last 14 years. Based in Salvador Bahia, had played with many important musicians from all over the world including Milton Nascimento, Jorge Ben Jor, Eagle eye Cherry, Roxette and Sofia Karlsson.

 

 

 

The record:

Marcus Wiberg and Luiz Murá met eachother in 2010 on a concert in São Paulo and started to play together. Luiz was impressed by how a Swedish musician could know so well the same brazilian sound that we was seeking for.
Later in the year, invited by Marcus , Luiz made his first visit to Sweden to make some concerts and that lead to Unit right away because they were Marcus's music teachers. The four of them connected right away because of their same sound and taste for music.

So in the summer of 2011 the record was set, but one special piece was missing to color up the sound so Marcus had the brilliant idea to contact percussionist Sebastian Notini to join the band and the circle was closed.

 

Unit & Luiz Murá it's a 100% authoral record brazilian-swedish tropical-scandinavian sounds with jazz colors, it has this live swedish flavor added by the music producer Johan Glössner who was the sound engineer for the recordings.