Eduardo & his Brazilian Aeroplane

"Brazilian Aeroplane" is a band with a multi-national history and fame. Piloted by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus in São Paulo, Brazil, many years ago it was test-driven in Milan, where Eduardo supplemented his Fine Arts studies by singing classic bossa nova and jazz grooves. When love for technology brought Eduardo to Finland, he kept the playing going anyway, singing and reshaping his projects, crew and ideas. The band assumed a special form when the Aeroplane hired Anthony Johnson as co-pilot, taking to the air many times: working with different crews of great musicians. Anthony ("Toninho") brought his talents as an arranger, a violinist and as a guitar player to the band, merging his British background with a deep love of Brazilian rhythms in order to produce fresh-sounding arrangements of works by artists as diverse as J. Karjalainen, Anna Hanski, Heikki Sarmanto and Bo Kasper. The current band complements Eduardo and Toninho with a core of top-class players, and performances by (among others) Anders Östling on electric guitar, Fabio Oliveira on its 6 and 7 string classical guitar, and Olga Shishkina on 39-string kantele and gusli. Jussi Mäkelä and Juha Tanninen are responsible for the percussion and drums while Pekka Kolehmainen underpins everything with his solid bass lines. While having really a lot of fun, Eduardo leads a meticulous, patient, industrious and continuous work of music research internationalizing the music of popular artists of different countries and idioms into its Brazilian mother language and music styles. His Brazilian Aeroplane test drove its first flights on cloudy and snowy clouds having Finland as its environment while preparing the campaigns in other countries as Sweden, Brazil and hopefully the international arenas. Remarkable results were seen at once at the first weeks of its SIMETRIA album launch: first place at top ten iTunes Jazz list for Finland and also first place at top 550 CDBaby list for Brazilian Pop. The sky looks clear with no clouds and lots of winds of love, fasten your seat belts!