Marcelo Politano (1989) is a specialist in folk flutes and has been the folk flutist of Chasky since 2007. The group Chasky was created in 1960 when musicians from different countries of South America migrated to Brazil. With almost 60 years of existence, Chasky is one of the most important groups of South American folk music still active.
Marcelo is very comfortable in improvising, reading any type of scores or simply creating the necessary lines for your project. He offers recordings of the following folk instruments:
- Pífano flute (bamboo flute from Brazil, known 'pife') and Piccolo pife;
- Quena flute (Andean bamboo or wood flute);
- Quenacho flute (Andean bamboo or wood flute);
- Tin whistles (Irish folk flutes):
- Wood Whistles;
- Duduk (Armenian folk wooden flute);
- Native American Flute (Navajo flute);
- Indian Bansuri;
- Chinese Hulusi;
- Different range of whistles and bird whistles;
- Classical western Flute;
- Tenor Saxophone;
- Soprano Saxophone;
- Recorder (blockflute);
some releases:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1fRxIgL3KfJdxFbJUdQ37N?si=hAUEGdPbQMe67BM4Xs6mvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM-ya5oFc7k
https://open.spotify.com/track/26ohRZsyb5be7Sn2KcYWsr?si=DNT1vyBBSBmVsdXhqzUbJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIV83P30xj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uy8hOq2BLQ
Marcelo Politano completed his bachelor in saxophone-Brazilian popular music at the University of Campinas (Brazil) and his master studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He is currently teaching Folk music at the Estonian Academy of Music in Tallinn: https://eamt.ee/en/inimesed/marcelo
$70/hour of studio recording (1h = $70; 1,5h = $105; 2 hours - $140; 2,5h =$175)
I'd love to hear about your project. Click the 'Contact' button above to get in touch.
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check_circleVerifiedMarcelo is the best. Always provides great tracks and great communication.
check_circleVerifiedIt was great working with Marcelo, he came up with multiple variations of lovely music for me to choose from. I recommend!!
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Marcelo was very good at communication and (over)delivered tracks very fast! Definitely would recommend him to anybody out there looking for some flutes! cheers
check_circleVerifiedLove working with Marcelo. The best!
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Marcelo plays the flute with great versality. He shared me many great ideas. Was very passionate about the project and always delivered on my requests. Thank you so much Marcelo for cooperation and patience, will use again.
check_circleVerifiedMarcelo has been a pleasure to work with! His recordings were clean and professional, the turnaround very fast and the communication friendly and professional.
check_circleVerifiedMarcelo is absolutely amazing! I asked him for a simple flute part in a song. And man, did he deliver!! So many options with different flutes to choose from and the quality of his playing is beyond amazing. Fantastic turn-around time, very nice guy and super talented! I highly recommend!! 100000 stars!!!
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an excellent musician! he is going to deliver exactly what you want and he def has some great ears for melody so you should trust him for your project :) (+also very fast delivery)
check_circleVerifiedThe tracks that Marcelo delivers has unique sound and definitely helped my project~
check_circleVerifiedAs always Marcelo delivered a perfect track he even sent a few extra options, for what I have requested. His talent is amazing and always nails it from the first take, super professional and very quick, and I can't recommend him enough.
Will be working with him again for sure.
check_circleVerified (Client)Working with Marcelo was a very nice experience! The job and the payment were on time! Marcelo is a great musician and was a honor to work with him. I hope to do more music together! Thanks a lot!!
check_circleVerifiedI had such an amazing experience with Marcelo. He was always quick to respond and super nice. He went above and beyond to capture the flute part and sound I was looking for, and added incredible improvisations in addition to my composed part. I would not hesitate to recommend him and I definitely hope to work with him again. Thank you so much Marcelo! :)
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Amazing and super talented musician, he nailed what I wanted on the first try, super fast and will alway play the right part to support the track and take it to perfection.
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I would like to thank Marcelo for putting the best effort on my production. Such a great player, easy to work with, delivers on time, no hassle. A real pro!!!
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Marcelo is a great player and he is very easy to work with! I highly recommend him!!
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Marcelo was incredible to work with, very understanding and really helped me find what I was looking for. I highly recommend him to work with!
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Another fantastic job by Marcelo. Very thorough and talented.
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Marcelo is an awesome flautist, excellent tone, great musical sense. Very professional communication and enthusiasm about the project. Definitely looking forward to working with him again in the future!
check_circleVerifiedMarcelo is a very talented flute player that gives you the choice between various flute instruments for recording. The recording quality is clean and proffesional! I definitly will get back for more future projects.
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Always a pleasure working with Marcelo!! Will be back..
I was the composer, folk flute player in all flutes, percussion player and sound engineer in this production
- 1 revision
- ca. one to 2 days to deliver the recordings requested
- no additional costs involved if the instrument requested is available
- R. Carlos Nakai
- Uña Ramos - quena
- João Do Pife And The Banda De Pífanos Dois Irmãos
- All instruments mentioned on profile. High quality recordings done with Schoeps Mk4 stereo pair
