ZERO HORA Daily Newspaper Brazil
MÙSICA SEGUNDO CADERNO, 24 may, 1999
Titel: To hear the beats of the world
Fernando Paiva returns from Vienna for a solo concert
and a workshop

One of the little games that the gaucho Fernando Paiva
plays in his workshops through Europe is to listen to
a recording of "One Note Samba" just to show
afterwards, that there are several ways to play  the
drums- and percussionparts of this song of  Tom Jobim.

This show will be seen at the Theatre Bruno Kiefer in
his workshop this afternoon. Then Paiva steps on the stage, but not as a teacher but as an artist.Armed with whistles,his own body, the voices of the audience and a sampler call "Jam Man", a device to create loops that are repeated instantly in a chase, he promises to transform the whole audience into composers.
The workshop of Paiva serves as a preparation for the
concerts of Alegre Correa Sextett in Porto Alegre this
weekend. Paiva and Alegre Correa moved to Vienna in
1988, invited by a keyboard player Dudu Trentin.

Paiva ,34 Jahrs old, is a fan of Egberto Gismonti and
Hermeto Pascoal. He says that the airport Salgado
Filho was the start and the chance for him to create
the kind of music he wanted to. After spending 6
months in the rich viennese musical scene, he came to
a conclusion:
"I realized that the brazilian music is one of the
greatest cultures of music on the planet and there is
no reason not to make use of such a richeness ".     
Besides playing in the Sextett from Alegre, Paiva had
played with musicians such as Hermeto Pascoal,Toninho
Horta and the american jazz-musician Marc Murphy.
He leads his own group with a cuban,an austrian and a
german musician and he gives occasional workshops in
Europe.There he teaches the lessons wich he started to
learn as a 7-year-old boy with his father then with
the legendary brazilian drummer José Eduardo Nazário
and later by playing with south-brazilian stars such
as Nei Lisboa, Bebeto Alves, Vitor Ramil, Nelson Coelho
de Castro and Vitor Ramil, among others.              
                                                     
"I am a musician, before being a drummer.There are moments where the  music asks  for virtuosity and moments where you play a cymbal each half an hour and it will be just the right thing to do".