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Uakti (band)

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Uakti (WAHK-chee) was a Brazilian instrumental musical group that was composed of Marco Antônio Guimarães, Artur Andrés Ribeiro, Paulo Sérgio Santos, and Décio Ramos. [1]

58 relations: Aguas da Amazonia, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Arecaceae, Atabaque, Athens, Belo Horizonte, Blindness (2008 film), Brazil, Cello, Chuí, Clube da Esquina, Europe, Experimental music, Experimental musical instrument, Federal University of Bahia, Floor tom, G1 (website), Grupo Corpo, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ibirapuera Park, Idiophone, India, Ivaldo Bertazzo, Japan, Kazoo, Legend, Maria Bethânia, Marimba, Membranophone, Milton Nascimento, Minas Gerais, Minimal music, Ney Matogrosso, Oiapoque, Pampulha (Belo Horizonte), Paul Simon, Philip Glass, Piano, Polyvinyl chloride, Ray Lema, Rio Negro (Amazon), Rush in Rio, Salvador, Bahia, São Paulo, Stewart Copeland, Sting (musician), Tabla, The Manhattan Transfer, The Rhythm of the Saints, Tucano people, ..., Uakti (myth), Vibraphone, Vinx De'Jon Parrette, Viol, Violin, Walter Smetak, Xylophone, Zélia Duncan. Expand index (8 more) »

Aguas da Amazonia

Águas da Amazônia, Sete ou oito peças para um balé is a 1993/1999 musical composition by the American contemporary classical composer Philip Glass.

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Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927December 8, 1994), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).

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Atabaque

The atabaque is a tall, wooden, Afro-Brazilian hand drum.

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Athens

Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte ("Beautiful Horizon") is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, the thirteenth-largest in South America and the eighteenth-largest in the Americas.

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Blindness (2008 film)

Blindness is a 2008 English-language film, an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by Portuguese author José Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Cello

The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Chuí

Chuí is a municipality located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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Clube da Esquina

Clube da Esquina (in English "Corner Club") was a Brazilian music artists collective, originating in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Experimental musical instrument

An experimental musical instrument (or custom-made instrument) is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments, or defines or creates a new class of instrument.

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Federal University of Bahia

The Federal University of Bahia (Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA) is a public university located mainly in the city of Salvador.

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Floor tom

A floor tom or low tom is a double-headed tom-tom drum which usually stands on the floor on three legs.

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G1 (website)

G1.com is a Brazilian news portal maintained by Grupo Globo and under the guidance of Central Globo de Jornalismo.

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Grupo Corpo

Grupo Corpo are a Brazilian dance theatre company founded in 1975.

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Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music".

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Ibirapuera Park

Ibirapuera Park (Parque Ibirapuera) is an urban park in São Paulo.

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Idiophone

An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Ivaldo Bertazzo

Ivaldo Bertazzo is a Brazilian dancer, choreographer and movement therapist.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Kazoo

The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it.

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Legend

Legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions perceived or believed both by teller and listeners to have taken place within human history.

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Maria Bethânia

Maria Bethânia Viana Telles Veloso (born June 18, 1946), known by her stage name Maria Bethânia, is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.

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Marimba

The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets called knobs to produce musical tones.

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Membranophone

A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane.

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Milton Nascimento

Milton Nascimento (born October 26, 1942) is a prominent Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil.

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Minimal music

Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials.

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Ney Matogrosso

Ney de Souza Pereira, known as Ney Matogrosso (born August 1, 1941, in Bela Vista, Mato Grosso do Sul), is a Brazilian singer who is distinguished for his uncommon countertenor voice.

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Oiapoque

Oiapoque (Oyapock) is a municipality in the north of the state of Amapá, Brazil.

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Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)

Pampulha (Portuguese: Região Administrativa da Pampulha) is an administrative region in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Polyvinyl chloride

Polyvinyl chloride, also known as polyvinyl or '''vinyl''', commonly abbreviated PVC, is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic plastic polymer, after polyethylene and polypropylene.

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Ray Lema

Raymond Lema A'nsi Nzinga (born 30 March 1946), known as Ray Lema, is a Congolese (DRC) musician.

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Rio Negro (Amazon)

The Rio Negro (br; Río Negro "Black River") is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River, the largest blackwater river in the world (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge.

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Rush in Rio

Rush in Rio is a three-disc live album by Canadian band Rush, released on October 21, 2003.

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Salvador, Bahia

Salvador, also known as São Salvador, Salvador de Bahia, and Salvador da Bahia, is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.

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Stewart Copeland

Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer.

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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Tabla

The tabla is a membranophone percussion instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent, consisting of a pair of drums, used in traditional, classical, popular and folk music.

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The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer is a jazz vocal group founded in 1969 that has explored a capella, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music.

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The Rhythm of the Saints

The Rhythm of the Saints is the eighth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon, released on October 16, 1990 on Warner Bros. Like its predecessor, Graceland (1986), the album gained commercial success and received mostly favorable reviews from critics.

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Tucano people

The Tucano people (sometimes spelt Tukano) are a group of indigenous South Americans in the northwestern Amazon, along the Vaupés River and the surrounding area.

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Uakti (myth)

Uakti is a mythical musician described by the Tucano people of the Alto Rio Negro region of the Amazon.

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Vibraphone

The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.

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Vinx De'Jon Parrette

Vinx De'Jon Parrette (born 15 December 1957), also known professionally by his stage name Vinx, is a percussionist, singer and songwriter and former athlete.

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Viol

The viol, viola da gamba, or (informally) gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Walter Smetak

Anton Walter Smetak (Zurich, Switzerland, 13 February 1913 – Salvador, Brazil, 30 May 1984) was a Swiss-born musician, composer, writer, sculptor and producer of musical instruments.

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Xylophone

The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.

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Zélia Duncan

Zélia Duncan (28 October 1964), born Zélia Cristina Gonçalves Moreira, is a Brazilian singer and composer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uakti_(band)

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