New Landmark
December 11, 2003

Last night I was at Clube dos Democraticos and bumped into a couple of friends from the group Casuarina (I've mentioned them before in the blog). We started chatting and João (Lenine's son) said to me, "Listen Scott, you know we're recording our first CD at Bistoito Fino's studio, right?".

He then, in the humble way told me the band would love it if I recorded on a tune with them, playing pandeiro de nylon. I said to him, "João, are you kidding me man, just say when and where"! I then laughed at him and said, "Man, this is my first real invite to record a real CD on pandeiro ... you don't have to ask me with so much respect!". We both laughed like crazy. I can't wait for the session.

As I think about it, I guess it's not true that this is my first invite, but it's my first to record on something that's associated with an already formed band, playing samba and associated with a label.

I'm actually in the midst of a duo project and we've started to record. I'm also supposed to add some pandeiro to a recording for another group. More on all of this later.

Posted by Scott at 10:39 AM