GRUPO FALSO BAIANO Celebrates New CD "SIMPLICIDADE: LIVE AT YOSHI" - Review.
Grupo Falso Baiano Photo courtesy: daniellathompson.com On Wednesday evening August 3, 2011, the 'infamous' fog that quietly spreads its cool, moist cloak over the San Francisco Bay Area was rolling in from the Pacific Ocean when Grupo Falso Biano took the stage at Yoshi's Jazz Club in Jack London Square, Oakland, California. Little did I know what an exquisite musical cloak this group also was set to spread over the large number of its excited fans that turned out to join in the celebration of the release of their new CD "Simplicidade: Live at Yoshi's." I had not heard of this band before, and knew nothing of the music it played. But I was drawn to them when I learned that roots of their music, an instrumental style called Choro , were planted firmly in Brazil; it predated the Bossa Nova ; was relatively unknown in North America ; and Grupo Falso Baiano arguably, was the sole working Choro ensemble in America. This seemed to signal that the band ...