It’s Brazil as you’ve never heard it before in this new album from Quatuor Ébène. Bossa nova and samba are shaken up in an intoxicating multicultural cocktail with the score from Terry Gilliam’s 1985 film Brazil, Argentinian tango, and numbers by songwriters from Stevie Wonder and Sting to Charlie Chaplin.

Joining the Quatuor Ebène as special guests are eclectic French singer-songwriter Bernard Lavilliers and the stylish American jazz singer Stacey Kent. 
 
So there is more to their new album 'Brazil' than a salute to this year’s World Cup extravaganza in South America. For a start, the country is the source of pau-brasil, also known as Brazilwood or pernambuco, which is traditionally used in making bows for stringed instruments, and thus complements the ebony (ébène in French) used for the fingerboards of violins, violas and cellos.

Track Listing:
1. O'gringo (with Bernard Lavilliers)
(Music & Lyrics: Bernard Lavilliers)
2. So nice (with Stacey Kent)
(Music & Lyrics: Marcos Valle/ Paulo Valle /Adaptation: Norman Gimbel)
3. I can’t help it (with Stacey Kent)
(Music : Stevie Wonder /Lyrics: Susaye Greene)
4. Ana Maria
(Music : Wayne Shorter)
5. Fragile (with Stacey Kent)
(Music & Lyrics : Sting)
6. Guitar Song (with Bernard Lavilliers)
(Music & Lyrics: Bernard Lavilliers)
7. Aguas de Marcos (with Stacey Kent & Marcos Valle)
(Music & Lyrics: Tom Jobim)
8. Bebê
(Music: Hermeto Pasquale)
9. The Ice hotel (with Stacey Kent)
(Music & Lyrics : Jim Tomlinson, Kazuo Ishiguro)
10. Salomé (with Bernard Lavilliers)
(Music & Lyrics : Bernard Lavilliers)
11. Libertango
(Music : Astor Piazzolla)
12. Smile (with Stacey Kent)
(Music : Charlie Chaplin / Lyrics : Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner)
13. Brazil Odyssey (with Brazil Choir & Brazil String Orchestra)
(Music : Pierre Colombet/Gabriel Le Magadure/Mathieu Herzog/Raphaël Merlin, on a theme by Ary Barroso / Lyrics : Bob Russell)