PINGO 01
Tale of Three City's
Sean Bergin + Rogério Bicudo
€18.50 (incl. shipping + tax)

We’ve known each other for years, and did not play music together because of various reasons-but in the winter of 2007 we met in the local café and started talking about music and life “let’s try something together”. So we go to Rogério’s place and listen to some music- traditional and originals from Brazil-beautiful music-then I bring some South African sounds, and start practicing around the kitchen table, then we go to the local café to talk about the music, we think of some changes in-timing-intro’s-harmonies-ect. Then we go back to the kitchen table and practice. This became the start of a musical friendship that led to the making of this cd. TALE OF THREE CITY’S. Rogério from Rio - Sean from Durban - in Amsterdam. Sean Bergin

The encounter with Sean was in many ways very inspiring. I’m glad we finally joined our musical luggage, each of us added his own flavour to the pieces within a very good understanding, it was a most pleasant experience. The freedom we have playing in this formation, made it possible to unite Satie, Pixinguinha and Coltrane on the same record, an idea I’ve been playing with for some time. Hope you enjoy it! Rogério Bicudo

Sean Bergin: alto, tenor saxophones, whistles
Rogério Bicudo: acoustic guitar

1 End of Man [L. Moholo] 5.15
2 Ruth [T. Ramos] 4.17
3 Shepherds [S. Bergin] 6.16
4 Proezas do Solon [Pixinguinha] 4.27
5 Ni Famba Uswanga [L. Silveira] 7.02
6 Diáspora [R. Bicudo] 2.58
7 Gymnopedie [E. Satie] 8.24
8 Naima [J. Coltrane] 3.42
9 Chega de Saudade [A.C. Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes] 4.36

Recorded at Studio Bromo in Amsterdam the 21st and 26th of January 2008
Engineering and mastering: Niels Brouwer 
Production: Pingo Records  
Artistic production: Rogério Bicudo
Artwork: Sean Bergin
Final Art: Inge Brouwer 
Thanks to ‘t Monumentje, Niels and Huub.