Gigante Negão

Arrigo Barnabé

 

September, 1990, Palace Theater, São Paulo. Arrigo Barnabé presents the pseudo-opera Gigante Negão Black Giant, a superproduction with Itamar Assumpção, Mário Manga, Mané Silveira, Azael Rodrigues, Ana Amélia, Claudia Faria, Dino Vicente, Tuca Fernandes, Mário Campos, Paulo Braga, and Roney Stella. November, 1997, Aclimação Park, São Paulo. Sound operator Marcelo Salvador meets Arrigo and reveals that he possesses in his files with over 500 recordings the live recording of the famous concert. Although it was recorded on cassette, the sound is good quality. CD documentation makes Benjamim Taubkin enthusiastic, together with Mané Silveira and Teco Cardoso, all from Núcleo Contemporâneo. One of the founders of the São Paulo vanguard, Arrigo Barnabé was noted on the musical scene because of his blend of urban popular music and modern and contemporary classical music. His name is linked to the São Paulo vanguard independent production movement. Thus, the Arrigo Barnabé meeting with Núcleo Contemporâneo founders is special. They also appear on the musical scene as a movement from the musicians´ point of view. In 15 songs, Gigante Negão tells the story of Lúcifer´s rebellion in Paradise when he felt menaced by the creation of Man. He then injects a poison into the archangel who revolts contaminated by Lúcifer´s arguments in the first fight. The plot continues mixing the idea of the Messiah´s arrival with cloning research and the world in the century 23, dominated by the advertising corporations. For the story, Arrigo Barnabé searched for references in different sources, from Goethe to James Joyce.

Winner of Sharp awards – Best Arrangement – 1999

Technique

Musician: Ana Amélia Duarte, Azael Rodrigues, Cláudio Faria, Dino Vicente, Tuca Fernandes, Itamar Assumpção, Mané Silveira, Mário Campos, Mário Manga, Paulo Braga, Roney Stella.
Live Recorded in cassette, in an only one taken by Hamilton Mika Griecco and Marcelo Salvador in São Paulo, September of 1990.
Executive production: Arrigo Barnabé and Núcleo Contemporâneo.