Mig Martins & Visa Haarala – Roots of Brazilian Ukulele

Mig Martins is an inventive and improvising ukulele player, versed in harmony, improvisation and arrangement/composition at the school of Hermeto Pascoal.

His concert sounds regional and jazzy at the same time, as it goes from the simplest to the most sophisticated harmony in a few minutes and although the ukulele does not seem, at first, to be a versatile and modern instrument, the musician shows, in his performance, that this becomes it is a myth because the instrument actually reflects the music that comes from within the musician.

In the repertoire, in addition to the songs that make up the album, some songs from the universe of regional music in northern Brazil, from the Amazonian forest region, a theme that has been part of his research into Brazilian regional music for many years.