Complete listing of DANIEL TAUBKIN's songs performed live from São Paulo - Brazil at SESC - Pompéia:

1) Soviet Line (All On Line)- (Daniel Taubkin)- in "A Picture of Your Life" CD- Blue Jackel- EMI- 2002
2) Swing dos Pássaros (Daniel Taubkin- Herbert Carranca)- in "BRAzSIL" CD- Blue Jackel- Lightyear- 1998-2002
3) Canta Bonito (Daniel Taubkin- José Wilson Lopes)- in "Sertão Negro" CD- Organismo Vivo- Tratore- 2009
4) Casinha Pequenina (Bernardino Belém de Souza- arranged by Ernani Braga)- in "Sarita Radzanowicz- Canções Eternas" CD- Reserva Nacional- 1991-***
5) Aurora de Verão- (Daniel Taubkin)- in "BRAzSIL" CD- Blue Jackel- Lightyear- 1998-2002-

Silvio Mazzuca Jr- bass
João Cristal- piano
Guello- percussion
Gigante Brazil- drums
Paulo Dafilin- acoustic guitar
Emerson Villani- guitar & vocals
Luisa Maita, Teresa Maita, Clarty Bacic Galvão & Aline Mell de Arruda- vocals
Daniel Taubkin- acoustic guitars, vocals & rythm section arrangements
Sarita Radzanowicz Taubkin- voice & piano***

Maestro José Roberto Branco- arrangements & conducting
Walmir Gil, Mauro Boim & Paulinho Baptista- trumpets
François de Lima, Valdir Ferreira & Todd Murphy- trombones
Mauricio de Souza, Vitor Alcantara, Marcelo Manfra (clarinet) & Mauro Caselatto- saxes & flutes

Off the Beat with Dominic Hoffman:

I went to an art opening the other night. Two artists. One, a photographer, the other did paintings and installations. I will not identify the artists or the gallery for reasons, which will soon become apparent. Let’s begin with the most accessible of the mediums, photography. Photography is easily attended. You view a photo and the image feeds you whatever it does. This set of photos seemed to revolve around the theme of repetition.  There were a couple dozen photos, in postcard format, in lines on a wall. Ostensibly they were photos of tourists in Tijuana during the 50’s. The setting was the same. The poses were the same in every picture. The people were different. The wall to the right was covered from floor to ceiling with a photo of an market in Tijuana. The beauty in that photo for me was the innocence I saw in the faces of people. It’s the same innocence I see in the eyes of anyone whose portrait appears in photos that are 40 years or older. Maybe  it’s my eyes that makes this happen. In the middle of the room was a glass case that housed a collection of related kitsch of the period. Mostly album covers of famous people of the fifties covering Mexican songs, along with some music-related printed material. The room was packed and I heard voices speak of the significance of this work, of how it spoke to some other period of art, about the intended irony and cleverness of it all. Someone else commented about exploitation being in itself an art form. It’s almost unfair how immediate the impact of a photo is compared with a painting. Photographs have almost instant validation because there’s an automatic truth attached to the image.  The image was captured, so it must be true. I wandered over to the next gallery to view the companion show.
It was a capacious, high ceiling gallery. Installations were interspersed all over the floor. These were basically glass shelves held together by wood and/or wire with a white or black pool of paint dripping on the panes of glass. A few different installations of wood and wire hung from the walls which resembled primitive instruments. The rest of the show was paintings hanging along the gallery’s white walls. They were mostly monochromatic ink on paper. Black, or grey, or dirty brown.  Amorphous shapes of color spreading, undisciplined, directionless until it stopped. Whenever I am confused about what I am seeing in a painting, a phenomenon that happens repeatedly, I remember a film called Herb and Dorothy. A cinematic treasure about a couple of modern art collectors, which provided me with a deeper understanding (or should I say it gave me a greater tolerance) of things I can’t quite comprehend. I looked at these images, I looked long and hard, made my best attempt at being present enough to receive whatever experience I was to have with the artist’s work, and I still couldn’t figure out what I was looking at it or why. So I tried not to figure it out, and simply to look. That said, I felt nothing. I didn’t understand. I wasn’t moved. It neither evoked, provoked nor annoyed me. I am not an art critic. I understand Andy Warhol intellectually, but he doesn’t move me at all. I have no idea what Jean Michel Basquiat is saying intellectually, but his art moves me terribly. The point being most of the viewers of art are not critics. We find art where we see it. So where I saw art last week was not so much at this particular gallery as it was in a couple of documentaries I watched, which are both art related. The previously mentioned Herb and Dorothy, which is about a very unsuspecting couple who, on a civil servants salary, become one of New York’s greatest modern art collectors. A portrait as it were of a couple who live their lives through art. A delightful film that mixes passion with obsession and somehow nobody gets hurt.
The Other film is RADIANT CHILD, a documentary that chronicles the ascent of Jean Michel Basquiat in the world of art and commerce. It contains great footage of Jean Michel painting, and candid moments of him speaking about his work. He had a very productive period at his Venice studio, and listening to him speak about what he does as an artist and why and how he does it not only gives you a context about his art, but a close up look at the humanity that informed it.

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