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Fonte: Music Box

Ouvir o álbum de Beto Villares é uma experiência prazerosa, que só nos faz desejar que ele não tivesse esperado tanto para lançar música em seu próprio nome.

Por Douglas Heselgrave

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Fonte: Latino USA

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Fonte: New Times Music

After years of working behind the scenes as a composer and producer with many of Brazil's new names in the pop scene (Zélia Duncan, CéU, and Pato Fu among them), São Paulo-based Beto Villares emerges with his first solo project, a sonic summary of the various genres he's worked around over the years. One of the tracks that grabs your attention is "Lume," which borrows its basic structure from Villa Lobos' "Bachianas Brasileiras," expanding it into an old-fashioned "marchinha," a beat common during Carnaval in the 1940s that has almost disappeared in recent years. On "Medo," he takes inspiration from maracatu for a song that talks about his different fears. Fernanda Takai (of Pato Fu) takes the lead on the beautiful "Incerteza," a tune about the uncertainties of a romantic relationship. Listen also to "Excelentes Lugares Bonitos," an uptempo song that describes the beauties of the diverse regions of Brazil. This self-titled debut does a good job of defying classification, and this genre-blurring album should surprise listeners at every turn.

Fonte: Global Groove Connection

Cutting-Edge Brazilian Producer Beto Villares Chats with GGC

Beto Villares is a very cool and unassuming music and soundtrack producer from SP, Brazil. He's the architect behind Grammy-nominated Brazilian siren CéU's 2007 debut and part of a web of like-minded musicians and producers behind the city's creative renaissance. In this lengthy interview, Beto talked about his own project -- just released in the U.S. by Six Degrees -- and the mundane magic that still happens in Brazil when people with instruments and good vibes get together on any street corner to play. Look out for an upcoming feature story in Global Rhythm magazine (www.globalrhythm.net).

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Fonte: New York Times

“Música do Brasil” is a four-disc survey of traditional music from across Brazil, field-recorded in the late 1990s. Released by the multimedia company Abril, which also produced a television series on the same theme, it has a staggering depth and variety of singing, string playing, drumming, sacred music and party music. If you are lucky enough to hear it, you will understand how this country’s pop vanguard will never lack ideas from its roots. (The set is unavailable on Amazon, but keep looking.) The musician and producer Beto Villares helped compile “Música do Brasil,” and his own first album, “Beto Villares” — made in 2003 but just released here by Six Degrees — reveals his perfect sense of security about matching electronics, pop and jazz with the rustic verities of Brazilian music, its bass drums, tambourines, flutes and hand claps. New and ancient co-exist happily; the tracks all have the right sense of scale. This great record should be celebrated, even if we’re celebrating it five years late."

Fonte:PRI's The World

In Brazil, when musicians want a producer who is knowledgable, artistic, and can get the job done, they know who to turn to.

When Brazilian television and cinema want a composer to add edge and hipness to their productions, they know who to turn to.

His name is Beto Villares.

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Fonte: Global Groove Connection

O album "Excelentes Lugares Bonitos" de Beto Villares está sendo lançado nos Estados Unidos pelos selos Urban Jungle e Six Degrees Records. Por lá, o disco está sendo chamado simplesmente de "Beto Villares".

Beto Villares takes the plunge

Brazilian producer Beto Villares' self-titled debut stands out as the best album I've heard so far this year. Not surprising for someone whose credentials range from composing film scores to producing multi-platinum selling recording artists. Most notably Villares is recognized for his contemporary global stylings on Brazilian chanteuse CéU's Grammy-nominated breakthrough --one of the biggest selling international records of 2007.

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Do disco "Excelentes Lugares Bonitos"

Fonte:Agencia Alavanca

No domingo do dia 20 de abril, São Paulo ganhou mais uma edição do Red Bull Music Academy, que acontece desde 1989 mundo afora e possibilita troca de informações entre músicos consagrados e novos talentos.

A cidade recebeu três workshops:

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