Name: O Alquimista (unplugged tribute to Paulo Coelho)
Duration: 3 min
Channel: Duilio Chiarle
Description: "O Alquimista (unplugged tribute to Paulo Coelho)" is a song by The Wimshurst's Machine. While working on our 2nd album 'The Alchemist' we met this book, that is telling a different story with the same title. This is our small tribute to a great writer. Reached #5 Latin Jazz 4th day online.

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While working on our 2nd album 'The Alchemist' we met this book, that is telling a different story with the same title. This is our small tribute to a great writer. Reached #5 Latin Jazz 4th day online.

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The Wimshurst's Machine

An italian 8 members chillout orchestra who plays a mix of electronic and acoustic chillout music with ambient, jazz and new age influences.

"...It is easy to imagine yourself peacefully lounging in a scenic land while listening to these compositions, which use a wide array of acoustic instrumentation backed by ambient electronica." : we reached (#26 overall) on iTunes Italian online music store between january 6 and 13, 2005 (since january, official iTunes release date, never went out from the Top100), and had a song (, our 1st CD and , our 2nd one. Check out our link section for a direct link on those albums pages on iTunes! as "Best Instrumental Artist"! Thank you, everyone, for this result! :-)

Song Info

Genre

Latin • Latin Jazz

Charts

#4,795 today Peak #35

#443 in subgenre Peak #5

Author

Duilio Chiarle

Rights

2004 by The Wimshurst's Machine

Uploaded

October 20, 2004

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:00

Story behind the song

While working on our 2nd album "The Alchemist" we met this book, that is telling a different story with the same title. This is our small tribute to a great writer and a great book. 

The song came out at 1st try, wrote down by our good Duilio in the shape of a Bossa Nova, and played at the tenor and soprano saxophones by Roberto. No effects, no re-mixing, no sampling, no programming: everything you hear in this song, every passage, every time change, was played live and you hear the recording of the 1st try of every instrument line. Just to show we do play electronica by choice, and not cause we have not other skills... Hope you may like it, even if it's very different than our usual musical gender!

Lyrics

Unplugged tribute to Paulo Coelho and his amazing book "O Alquimista".

Top10 Latin Jazz in it's 3rd day online and #5 Latin Jazz within 4th day online.

This track is also used in the soundtrack of the movie "Polesine" (Italy, 2005).