Eliane Elias gets nomination for 2022 Latin Grammy, releases new single "Você e Eu

Today, internationally celebrated virtuoso pianist, vocalist, composer and arranger Eliane Elias received a 2022 LATIN GRAMMY nomination for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album for MIRROR MIRROR, her masterpiece GRAMMY winning piano duets album with Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés.

“I’m honoured and thrilled to receive a Latin GRAMMY nomination for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album of the Year with my dear colleagues Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés,“ stated Eliane. “Thank you! Congratulations to all fellow nominees!”

How befitting today’s nomination falls on the same day of the release of her 2nd single “Você e Eu (You and I),” from her highly-anticipated new bossa nova album Quietude coming out on Candid Records October 14th.

LISTEN TO "Você e Eu (You and I)" HERE

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A showcase of Eliane’s sensuous Portuguese vocals, Elias returns to her Brazilian roots on Quietude. The piano takes a lower profile with her intoxicating, intimate singing prevailing often with acoustic guitar support in a swinging bossa nova sensibility. The vocalist-guitarist duo brings the authentic tradition, but in a very personal and expressive way through Eliane’s harmonic approach as revealed in these arrangements. “I like to make music that I personally would like to hear. This album makes me feel good, at peace and relaxed and I hope that listeners feel the same,” she says.

Eliane enlists three marvellous guitarists for Quietude, including Marcus Teixeira who has been recording with her since her GRAMMY-winning 2015 album Made in Brazil. She also includes the guitarist Lula Galvão who’s considered to be the current master of Brazilian acoustic guitar. And then there’s her longtime colleague, the great guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves, who passed away in 2013. “He was one of a kind,” Eliane says. “I’m glad that I had saved this previously unreleased recording of ‘Tim-Tim Por Tim-Tim” and that Oscar’s beautiful playing is included in this guitar-centric album.”

In many ways, Eliane’s embrace of these Brazilian compositions ranging from legends Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim to Dorival Caymmi and Roberto Carlos marks an expressive return to home. A child piano prodigy, she broke into the performing world at age 17 by touring with Vinicius de Moraes. She enjoyed a special relationship with Jobim. In her solo career, she dedicated two albums to him, both as a vocalist and pianist.

On Quietude, Eliane states the material she chose to record owes less to her relationship with the composers and more to her relationship with the songs themselves. She opens the album romantically with a gently swinging take on the Carlos Lyra-Moraes song “Você e Eu” (“You and I”). Another of Eliane’s favourites is the melody-rich “Marina,” composed by celebrated Brazilian musician Dorival Caymmi. This song is beautifully sung by Eliane accompanied by guitarist Teixeira, drummer Celso de Almeida and bassist/co-producer Marc Johnson.

Eliane delivers a duo setting of Dorival Caymmi’s tunes in the track titled “Bahia Medley.” Though born in São Paulo, she says she’s always had a love affair with Bahia, where “some great songwriters came from and where the people are generally calmer, more laid back.” The album cover photo was taken in Bahia. Eliane also pays heartfelt homage to the state of northeast Brazil with the song “Bahia Com H,” played largely as a vocal-guitar duo with a slight piano embellishment.

Eliane dips into the Jobim songbook with a gorgeous take on his “Só Tinha Que Ser Com Você” (“This Love That I’ve Found”), a song she fell in love with in her teens and the first single release from the album. She closes her version with an authoritative, swinging and succinct piano solo. As a reminder of her technical prowess, she delivers another short but brilliant piano solo on the end of “Brigas, Nunca Mais” (”No More Fighting”).

Other highlights include the Eliane-Lula take on the beauty, “Olha” (”Look”); the full band upbeat rollick (complete with vocalese) through “Bolinha de Papel” (“Little Paper Ball”) which has cute lyrics about domestic issues; and the declarative love for the Samba “Eu Sambo Mesmo” (”I Really Like Samba”).

Quietude ends perfectly with “Saveiros,“ a duo vocal affair with 79-year-old Brazilian luminary Dori Caymmi (the son of Dorival Caymmi) who co-composed the tune with Nelson Motta about men taking their sailboats out to sea. Eliane explains: “I can visualize this beautiful lyric about sailboats that set out to sea before sunrise, hoping that the winds will allow them to return home at sunset. With each boat that appears on the horizon, there’s a song of joy for having once again conquered the sea.”

Pre-save / Pre-order "Quietude" here

TRACKLIST

1. Você e Eu (You and I)

2. Marina

3. Bahia Com H (Bahia With H)

4. Só Tinha Que Ser Com Você (This Love That I've Found)

5. Olha (Look)

6. Bahia Medley: Saudade da Bahia / Você Já Foi á Bahia

7. Eu Sambo Mesmo (I Really Samba)

8. Bolinha de Papel (Little Paper Ball)

9. Tim-Tim Por Tim-Tim

10. Brigas Nunca Mais (No More Fighting)

11. Saveiros