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Victor Furtado, a teenager steeped in the banjo since childhood, knows such moments well. As a virtuoso now poised to enter conservatory, he stands out among his peers.—- This album marks Victor s third. He published his first solo collection at age eleven. The youngest of nine children in a musical family, he began playing at nine. He received initial tutoring from his sisters, as well as his father, and benefitted from an instructional video by banjoist Lynn Morris. His playing is anchored in the Round Peak style, a fiddle-and-banjo approach centered in Surry County, North Carolina, and given lasting renown by traditional exemplars such as Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, and Kyle Creed. For Victor, however, his exposure to these historical sources comes indirectly. He absorbed this style not from their recordings but from their admirers. At times he draws from YouTube performances that pique his interest, and these, too, serve as resources, each one offering him a jumping-off point. He reckons with this music not through the lens of a preservationist or by means of apprenticeship, but as a participant. —- Nor does he limit his playing technique to traditional downpicking. The tunes govern his hands, and he has developed strumming patterns, fifth-string noting strategies, and non-standard finger picking that he employs as the pieces dictate. Victor s choice of a twelve-inch pot, open-back banjo and the lower tones it produces, identifies a preference current among his community of musicians, even as it echoes earlier precedents heard in fretless and gourd banjos both of which he also plays.—- Victor learned most of the traditional pieces heard on this album during festival jams. As these exuberant recordings suggest, the tunes here become opportunities for collaboration and virtuosity. We all changed the way we played, he recalls about the opening track. The fiddler had just recently heard the number, the gathered musicians meanwhile forming a new ensemble. Such an arrangement leads to an improvisational approach that permeates this album. As Victor says, the point is to make these melodies happen. —- Victor s fellow players Danny Knicely, Nate Leath, Sean Newman, Andrew Vogts, Aila Wildman, and Eli Wildman variously contributed to the arrangements. During Candy Girl, for instance, the recording process drew on funk music precedents that Danny organized before the ensemble stepped into the more familiar tempo that concludes the track.
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 4.8 x 0.24 inches; 1.48 ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ CD Baby
Item model number ‏ : ‎ YIrefIX66pYspy61
Department ‏ : ‎ Womens
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2018
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ June 8, 2015
Label ‏ : ‎ CD Baby
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00Z5FFBSQ
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1