This week's winner is A Bruxa, which was submitted as a Waltz from Galicia. I see that it, along with Cinderella Waltz, had a run, here, as an 'other tune' back in 2011. Here is a link to 3 settings on thesession.org
And here's the first contribution for week#417:
Well worth the wait, I'd say! I like how your style sounds well rehearsed but not laboured. You are obviously very comfortable with what you're playing.
Thanks a lot, Criss -- I like that tune a lot and your playing suits it very well! I do have a very old solo mandolin recording of mine, which is the very first one in Barbara's posting at the top of this thread. I have been meaning to do a multitrack recording using the harmonies from Evelyn's arrangement. We play her setting of A Bruxa with our group occasionally, but I've never got around to putting it together for my Youtube channel. Martin
Thanks Gelsenbury, thanks Martin! I must confess, I was a little surprised, I did not find one of your nice multi-track recordings of this tune on Youtube. But there will surely be one in the future I hope...
I just played the chords I found on a score I found with Google, with some minor harmonic changes. And I recorded it with my bowlback, probably doesn't sound so different from my A oval hole. Same player, same pick, same strings, only the mandos are of a little different shape...
As promised, here is my multipart recording of "A Bruxa", using an arrangement by Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni from 2012. Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin (x2) Vintage Viaten tenor guitar Suzuki MC-815 mandocello Martin
Fine recording, Martin, I especially like the low melody at 2.13!
Thanks a lot, Criss! For the low melody section, the mandocello switches to melody and the mandolin plays the syncopated double-stop rhythm. I really like Evelyn's harmonies on this one, very rich. Martin
This version sounds great too!
Here my attempt. Mandolin, melodica, guitar and piano.
Nice one! Love the different instruments combined. And nice playing Martin too. Great tune.
Mesmerizing, as I suppose it must be...beautiful!
Fine arrangement and great playing, Pierpaolo. Your choice of instruments really suits the tune.
Thank you all.
Fine playing, Pierpaolo. I obviously missed this official tune. It goes on my to-do pile now. Have to listen to the other versions, too.
Nice playing, Pierpaolo, the harmomica adds a new tone colour.
Pierpaolo! What an inspired choice to let the melodica take the lead. It sounds absolutely perfect.
In my quest to find tunes from sunny Spain... https://youtu.be/7BJJh0ud5vA?feature=shared
Beautiful! Good, warm tone even on the upper end of your OM,
Thanks Frithjof! I really love the tone up here on the octave though of course I wouldn’t do this to a tune in public. - I played this one in F minor since it’s a rather nice series of bar chords on the guitar…
Beautifully played and arranged, Simon. As with Provence and France, I think many Galicians might baulk at being labelled sunny Spain (and the sun has rarely shone when I have been there).
A wonderful sound you create using the nasty f-minor, Simon!
Ha, ha! Not at all like Gm. Who was it who used to have five or six mandolins on stage all tuned differently for different tunes? Like a set of Irish whistles. Let's empower the melody!
Lovely tune, Simon. Enjoyed the key you played it in, the guitar accompaniment and the tone of the OM.