Depuis 2006, Léonard Constant travaille en étroite collaboration avec le Florquestra (alias Florquestra Brasil). Pour en savoir plus long sur l’univers Florquestra, rendez-vous sur www.florquestra.com et sur www.flortografia.com.

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Le Florquestra est heureux de vous annoncer la parution de son premier album discographique, Flortografia, enregistré au Canada et au Brésil.

Cachaça Prod, la Ville de Gatineau et le Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec vous remercient d’avoir offert une salle comble et vibrante au lancement de Flortografia le mercredi 30 janvier dernier, au cabaret La Basoche du Centre culturel du Vieux-Aylmer !

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Nous vous invitons à lire une chaleureuse chronique de ce lancement sur le site Ottawa Jazz Scene... — http://ottawajazzscene.ca/ottawa-jazz-seen/6423-florquestra-brasil-launches-their-first-album-flortografia-with-all-around-enthusiasm
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... et un très bel article de Maud Cucchi, du quotidien Le Droit, sur le thème de ce lancement : http://www.lapresse.ca/le-droit/arts-et-spectacles/201301/30/01-4616697-poesie-et-musique-bresilienne-a-la-basoche.php
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Florquestra recipe (serves all): Mix a handful of feverish sambas, a pinch of sultry bossa novas, a dash of tropical rhyme, the intricate beauty of Brazilian harmony and the rhythmic patterns you may have never heard before... but will love immediately. Serve on a hot day, between a slice of setting sun and a slice of settled sea, with a Regina Gomes Teixeira (vocals, percussion), a Leonard Constant (guitar, vocals), a Silvio Módolo (piano, bass, squeeze-box, vocals, guitar, percussion) an Evandro Gracelli (permanent special guest on guitar, cavaquinho & vocals), a Fernando Acosta (percussion, berimbau, vocals) and an Angel Araos (percussion).

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“No surprise that the heat keeps rising into the weekend at a venue called Mercury Lounge. Just pronouncing Florquestra Brasil makes me warmer, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what is on offer this eve. A bonafide bossa nova and samba band from Guimarães and São Paulo, Florquestra Brasil will make your heart weep for sunburns while you burn up the wooden floor.” — Cormac Rea, Ottawa Xpress, January 2009

“Boy, Ottawa is lucky to have such a great act in its midst!” — Kai Black, Executive Producer of Daytime Programming, CBC Radio Two, Toronto