A step towards uniting Brazil’s new generation of songwriters and musicians, Nosso, Dani Gurgel’s new album, means Ours. Besides her own songs, Nosso brings a landscape of new brazilian music, on jazzy and sophisticated arrangements, remembering and innovating bossa nova. It’s not just a ‘new singer album’, nor a ‘new songwriter’ one, but a symbol of many people’s work: composers, musicians, producers, partners and audience. Produced by Dani Gurgel and Thiago Rabello, a lot of the album’s songs came from Dani’s 2007 Dani Gurgel e Novos Compositores (Dani Gurgel and New Composers) project, which introduced many songwriters that gave birth to many new partnerships. Some of those, which have been recorded by Dani in Nosso, are Vinicius Calderoni, Dani Black, Giana Viscardi and Ricardo Barros. Also in 2007, Dani won Programa Nascente, a fest of São Paulo’s University (USP), with her Da Pá Virada project. Meaning a fast and tricky child, Da Pá Virada was composed by Dani and Debora Gurgel, the main arranger of Nosso. With a pianist for a mother and a saxophone player for a father, Dani Gurgel lived most of her life on instrumental music. She was a saxophone player at a big band conducted by Roberto Sion, and at Zimbo Trio’s saxophone section, then a bass player at her composers group with Vinicius Calderoni and Tó Brandileone. Dani drew her path through music from many angles until she became a singer-songwriter. Her work on music photography and her instrumentalist baggage coll