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Life
Beautiful Life: The true artist lets unmistakable marks in time in which it lived. Capable even today of touching interpreters and audiences around of the planet, rarely a song translated such well the spirit of a time as Trem do Pantanal, composed in 1975 for Geraldo Roca and Paulo Simões. Born the Rio de Janeiro, but grownup in Campo Grande, capital of the today State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, Paulo Simões is one of the most important composers of his generation, introducing sonorities and frontier rhythms (of that part of the world in which Brazil was Paraguay) in the Brazilian musical melting-pot. Alternating distinct existences, of the coast to the interior, his work reflects a diversity that cames of the country to the folk, incorporating ternary rhythms of the Basin of the Silver to the Brazilian urban and international music. Their songs, recordeds for stars as Sergio Reis, Ivan Lins, Sandy and Junior and Renato Teixeira, are heard in Brazil and exterior, highlighting among them Comitiva Esperança (with the habitual partner Almir Sater), of the soundtrack of the Pantanal serie, success in lots of countries. Dedicating to the independent production, launched by his own label Sauá Records three CDs, gathered in a quarter new release in Vida Bela Vida Collection. He stills takes part of the project Chalana de Prata, next to equally regionally popular artists, like Celito Espíndola, Dino Rocha and Guilherme Rondon, whose work is registered in two CDs. Working to itself or in multiple and talented partnerships, Paulo Simões is a musical and poetic reference inside Brazil's Central Culture and her ramifications dispersed frontier by all South America. Comitiva Esperança Between November 1983 and January 1984, Comitiva Esperança project ran through several regions of the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul thick searching and documenting the everyday of the local population. Using traditional means of transportation the musicians Almir Sater, Paulo Simões and Zé Gomes -accompanied by a filming team- gathered vast material of the swampland culture, whose singularity it owes so much for specific environmental factors as the inundations regime, as well as to the isolation in which they live their inhabitants. Besides a documentary in 16mm, directed by Wagner Carvalho, the project generated an important photographic collection, already exhibited with success by the Image and Sound Museum of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul. They also were registered in audio interviews with inhabitants, conductive of parties, minstrels and another, besides musical presentations with the participants musicians as reward by the hospitality met in all visited locations. Some songs composed during the travel became popularly well-known, highlighting the own Comitiva Esperança (Sater-Simões), who would become later one of the larger highlight themes of the Swampland soap opera, success not only in Brazil as in countless countries. For
Paulo Simões, the experience of the Comitiva Esperança
had fundamental paper in the process of the discovery and construction
of his identity. The contact with the language, the habits and the philosophy
of own life of pantaneiros helped him to define a persona artistic and
cultural, which manages to ally the musical and poetic quality to an
own originality of the great artists.
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