Like all Rogerio´s albums, this is a very creative and of extremely high quality!
Roberto Menescal – composer, arranger and musical producer

“Sem palavras” is a delicious stroll through the Brazilian musical universe. The album leads us through a calm and pleasant sonic ambience
Marco Pereira – guitarist, composer and arranger

The only album on Rogerio´s discography comprised only of songs (all Portuguese lyrics).

The special guests are Jane Duboc, Cristovão Bastos, Renato Braz, Fátima Guedes, Sérgio Santos, Hector Costita, Vanessa Moreno to name a few.

Rogério Botter Maio proves that Brazilian instrumental music can stay away from the media, but determinedly follows its path matching the creativity of the best music around the globe.
Carlos Calado – journalist and musical reviewer

Recorded in June 2008 in Barcelona, this is Rogerio’s fourth independent CD.
This album impresses by its unusual instrumentation, arrangements and lyrics of previously recorded tunes as well as new compositions.

The CD Prazer da Espera is very nice and full of good compositions and good musicians!
Hermeto Pascoal – composer and multi-instrumentalist

His compositions show great personality with influences from jazz, bossa and
“Clube da Esquina”.

Refined and well constructed songs, transmit the colors and the emotion of being Brazilian. I congratulate this high level work, in a moment when this generation is more worried about showing  instrumental virtuosity and producing music tied to the phonographic market around the world. Rogério simply overcomes that, proving that it is still possible to create good quality music with fresh criativity.
Toninho Horta – guitarist and composer

Accomplished musician, composer and researcher, Rogério is one of the few of his generation who hasn´t let himself be influenced by today´s repetitive sound.
Dom Salvador – Brazilian pianist and composer

Rogério made a beautiful album starting from the title.. Waltz, maracatus, baiões… This is Rogério´s Brazil. Sugestive, modern, rich.
Guinga – guitarist and composer

…Though Maio long ago left Brazil’s São Paulo for New York, South American music continues to dominate his writing. Many of the cuts here implement Brazilian music forms: samba, bossa nova, baião, frevo, but none settle for a nostalgic rehashing of Jobim’s and Gilberto’s era. Just as evident in Maio’s writing and arranging is an appreciation of complex jazz forms, especially those
developed since the cool jazz era. Every cut presents an entirely different mood and the unique instrumentation is occasionally reminiscent of the great Hermeto Pascoal’s creative Brazilian musician combinations.
Too much Brazilian music influenced by jazz and too much jazz influenced by Brazil settles for merely mixing different combinations of both elements; Maio, however, injects a monstrous dose of his own take on what the two Americas can do musically that hasn’t yet been done. It’s a very impressive release, and a great find for those who have thrown up their hands in frustration over a lack of
anything new emanating from down South American way.
With “an abstract notion of joy” and sophisticated style of composition, this demanded Brazilian bass player reviews the roots of his culture on his début CD. Armed with great musicians such as Claudio Roditi, Jane Duboc, Dom Salvador, Hendrik Meurkens among others, presents in all original compositions a broad variety of rhythms such as Samba, Baião, Maracatu and Frevo in a very authentic yet jazzy CD.

Dave McElfresh, Jazz Now Online Magazine