Gaia Wilmer & Jaques Morelenbaum – Trem das Cores

Tremdas Cores is a celebration of Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, and important figure in Brazilian culture and in Morelenbaum’s and Wilmer’s lives. The idea comes from their love and great pleasure in working together with Caetano’s work while celebrating his 80th birthday and, most of all, honoring him as a composer, beyond his greatness as a singer and a poet–hence the idea of an instrumental journey through his music.
Gaia and Jaques worked together for the first time in 2018, in a project paying homage to Egberto Gismonti’s music – also a celebration of his 70th birthday – in a series of concerts in Brazil organized by Gaia, and the recording of “Folia – The Music of Egberto Gismonti”, with Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble and Jaques as one of the guests. Since then, the desire of doing something together has been present in their lives and, during the pandemic, they came up with this idea: an album together paying homage to Caetano. Thus, in 2022, in a project in partnership with Brazilian label Biscoito Fino, they assembled a group of musicians made up of two flutes, clarinet, two saxophones, cello, electric guitar, accordion, bass and drums, and began developing arrangements for songs that were less or more well-known, all written by Caetano Veloso (including some collaborations, such as Terceira Margem do Rio, with Milton Nascimento). This album was recorded in September of 2022 and was released on August 15th 2023 and has Mônica Salmaso, Brazilian singer, as a guest in two of its pieces.