Who is CARLOS TRILHA?

Latin Grammy Winner. Musician. Multi Platinum Producer. 180 Albums Recorded. 

• Winner: Equilíbrio Distante – Best Foreign Language Album at the 9th Brazilian Music Awards (1996) – Milton Nascimento Edition.
• Winner: Golden Dolphin at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards (2012) for the institutional film Nossa História celebrating the company’s 70th anniversary.
• Nominee: Original Score for the film Somos Tão Jovens, finalist for Best Original Soundtrack at the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro (2014).
• Winner: Best Original Soundtrack for the film Somos Tão Jovens at the 8th Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival (2015).
• Winner: Latin Grammy (2022) in the category “Best Rock or Alternative Music Album in Portuguese” as Mixing Engineer and Keyboardist on the album O Futuro Pertence à Jovem Guarda by Erasmo Carlos.
• Nominee: Latin Grammy 2024 as Mixing Engineer in the category “Best Portuguese Language Song” for the song “Ata-me” by Alaíde Costa.
• Winner: Latin Grammy (2024) in the category “Best Rock or Alternative Music Album in Portuguese” as Mixing Engineer on the album Erasmo Esteves by Erasmo Carlos.

About Me

Born in Florianópolis, Carlos Trilha has been a professional musician since 1984. His first encounter with keyboards happened at the age of 3 with a rare wooden organ manufactured by Hering in the 1960s. At the age of 9, he began studying classical piano, and by 13, he was invited to join his first rock band as a pianist.

In 1992, he was invited to support Legião Urbana. His musical affinity with the group caught the attention of Renato Russo, who invited him to arrange and produce his solo works (The Stonewall Celebration Concert and Equilíbrio Distante). The significant sales of Renato Russo’s solo CDs brought attention to the then-young producer.

Over the years, Trilha has programmed, arranged, produced, and collaborated with virtually the entire Brazilian music scene.

Carlos Trilha became a renowned musician, producer, arranger, and programmer. He worked with Lobão, a partnership that resulted in two albums (2001: Uma Odisseia no Universo Paralelo – 2001 and Canções Dentro da Noite Escura – 2005).

During this period, he also produced five projects for the band Catedral (2003-2005) and worked with other rock bands such as Autoramas, Cabaret, Libra, Penélope, and Tijuquera (SC). He also created the intricate album A Febre dos Sonhos with his band, Tantra, and completed his first solo project, Retrotech, in 2007.

Over the years, he has performed with some of the biggest names in Brazilian music, including Marisa Monte, Renato Russo, Lobão, Ana Carolina, Leo Jaime, Pepeu Gomes, Baby do Brasil, Dazaranha, Danni Carlos, Nação Zumbi, and Marina Lima.

In 2022, Carlos Trilha won the Latin Grammy in the category “Best Rock or Alternative Music Album in Portuguese” for the album O Futuro Pertence à… Jovem Guarda by Erasmo Carlos.

In 2024, he repeated the achievement with another Latin Grammy in the same category for mixing the album Erasmo Esteves by Erasmo Carlos.

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PROJECT: Concert #1 for Synthesizers

Carlos Trilha brings to the stages his Concert #1 for Synthesizers, with his special “cockpit” of 14 synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines of the 70’s and 80’s, added to last generation electronic devices. This combination gives the live performance an impressive final result and a new flavor to classic electronic sounds

Apart from his own tunes and the Moogbeat album (read more in the next section), the artist also performs his versions of classics from legendary composers such as Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre and Brazilian classical music composers, Carlos Gomes and Villa-Lobos.

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PROJECT: MOOGBEAT – Nação Zumbi for Minimoog

Carlos Trilha released the album Moogbeat with various hits of Brazilian band -“Nação Zumbi” in versions recreated entirely on the legendary analogic synthesizer. An immersive, organic and vibrant electronic musical performance.

The idea came up as a- simple wish to surprise the band members in one of their rehearsals when they were all touring together in a side project. He worked silently for 2 months, synthesizing and playing every single instrument of the track “Meu Maracatu Pesa uma Tonelada” just on Minimoog. “It was almost an hypnotic process. I literally submerged in the music”, he says.

The result of this first experience exceeded all his expectations and has made a big impact on everyone who listened to it. After this, the way to the full length album was opened, and another year of hard work followed.

On top of this first track, the album also brings Futura, Blunt of Judah, Cicatriz, Bala Perdida, Hoje, Amanhã e Depois, Quando a Maré Encher and the beautiful Prato de Flores. All of them using as sound generator, not only for the harmonic, but also for the percussive sounds, only the legendary instrument of the 70’s.

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PROJECT: RETROTECH

RETROTECH is an electronic music concert created e composed by CARLOS TRILHA. On stage, he use synthesizers, analogue sequencers and drum machines from the 70’s and early 80’s. These historical instruments evoke the origin of characteristic electronic sounds that are now widely used in many types of pop and electronic music.

A unique detail of this production is that they do not use loops or sound libraries. All the sounds are created from real instruments and are first generation, allowing RETROTECH to make a striking reinterpretation of the classic sound of electronic music.

The highlight of the live performances is the use of rare analog instruments, staged to show the public how these interesting devices work. In addition, RETROTECH also uses a special set of projection images from generative code (created in real time), synchronized by software written with MAX/MSP/JITTER specially for each performance.

RETROTECH is a work that recalls the “belle epoque” of electronic music; more than just an exciting audio-visual experience, it is “an inspiring journey through time for lovers of contemporary art.”