Delia Fischer - Tempo Mínimo (2019)

Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, she started her recording career with Duo Fenix in the 1980’s, establishing a strong reputation as both a pianist and composer, highlighted with appearances at Sofia Jazz Festival, New Morning club in Paris, and Montreux Jazz Festival 1989. Her prestige as a musician led to invitations to arrange, direct and perform in various successful musicals in Rio and Sao Paulo. In 2018 she won “Best Latin Song” and “Vox Pop” at the 16th Independent Music Award in New York.

Delia has performed and recorded with Brazilian and international greats such as Marcos Valle, Milton Nascimento, Ed Motta, Toninho Horta, Hermeto Pascoal and Romero Lubambo, as well as Swedish singer Lisa Nilsson, Italian star Mario Biondi and American sax player Bob Baldwin.

Her latest album, Tempo Mínimo, released this summer, brings her kaleidoscopic musicianship in an album which reveals her seductive vocals, great musical ideas and contemporary sound. She performed the album on her first and recent European tour with 11 dates played in Germany, Italy and Portugal.

The album helped her development as a songwriter. Mesmos Sons, she says, was the first song she wrote with lyrics.

She sought out names that could add a modern feel to the album. “I’ve always arranged for others, I wanted someone with a more pop, contemporary feel,” says Delia, who had a strong connection with Sacha Amback, who has previously worked with such artists as Zeca Baleiro and Adriana Calcanhotto. “I also brought on board Rodrigo Campello as a great general coordinator, who helped me greatly. We also had special participations from Ed Motta, Marcos Valle, my idol since childhood, and Pretinho da Serrinha, who’s been a friend for many years.”

For the live performances she is working with her family power trio: her son, Antonio Fischer-Band (appearing on the tracks Orgia and Mercado), and her husband, Matias Correa, who participates in Canção de Autoajuda and play bass on various tracks.

RETHINKING TIME – Massimo M. Milano (Music critic – Italy), from the album sleeve notes:
In an age like ours, where the threshold of attention with respect to any aesthetic and cognitive experience does not exceed thirty seconds, reappropriating of time and its value it is perhaps the most revolutionary gesture that can be conceived. And that’s exactly what Delia Fischer did, taking eight years to accomplish what is probably the most consistent and representative work of her entire career.
“Tempo Mínimo” gives life to a sonic world of its own, in which the pianist, singer and songwriter from Rio de Janeiro – using the minimal format of the song – reflects on life, relationships and feelings, observing them in the context of everyday experience. And she does so through a very personal writing, made up of original timbre solutions, register shifts and surprising stylistic syntheses that play in tandem with the musicality of words (always chosen with extreme care), building twelve micro-stories that together make up a bittersweet narrative that resembles a sound novel.
Far from clichés and from complacent and glossy exoticism, this is the new music that comes from Brazil. Local and at the same time universal, full of lyricism and evocations, but also indisputably contemporary. Characterized by a sound that has metabolized all the history and tradition, taking them one step further, in a direction that is still unexplored. And it is precisely there that we will have to look at whether we would like to understand something more about ourselves and our time.