Confetes by Pierre Dechery

This is an old composition I made many years ago and had later decided to arrange in a "samba-jazz" fashion, in the vein of brazilian musicians like Toninho Horta and Nelson Angelo.

Production-wise I recorded the guitars with my Yamaha acoustic nylon-string. I'm playing only with my fingers, not using a pick. I thought it was more appropriate. Had to do a a few more takes on the solo, though.

As usual, I do everything in Ardour, a very strong DAW in Linux environments.

It was quite a challenge to make the drum parts, since I had never made a samba-beat before, let alone with a computer. I had to checkout some reference in YouTube and hear again some tunes I didn't hear in a long time. I've ended up using a very basic kit with a shaker I played and recorded myself.

I hope you like the tune, and if so, I'd suggest to checkout Toninho Horta or Nelson Angelo records, since they're both artists who had adapted the jazz language to brazilian music in a very particular and beautiful way.