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STCD 2017CD
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2003 release. Sampa is what the 12 million people of São Paulo call their city. Beneath the ultra-modern skylines stretching into the favelas there's a clash of cultures like nowhere else in the world and a vibrant, multifaceted music scene to go with it. Sampa is where Tom Zé, the subversive leader of the Tropicália movement in the 1960s and '70s, chose to live and work after he got bored with Rio de Janeiro, and where Fernanda Porto went to study music and stayed. It's where bands like Nação Zumbi, singer-songwriters like Otto, and other young iconoclasts from the farthest reaches of Brazil landed when they were ready to make it in the big city. It's where innovative DJs like XRS Land, Anvil FX, and DJ Dolores came to hone their chops, and where the ingenious sound-artist Suba discovered Cibelle and produced Bebel Gilberto's global breakthrough Tanto Tempo (2000), released not long before he died tragically in a studio fire. Sampa Nova captures the hard-edged energy and avant-garde vibe of 21st-century São Paulo but also that distinctly Brazilian feeling of alegria -- love of life. Features: Suba, Cibelle, Tom Zé, Otto, Drumagic, DJ Dolores, Nação Zumbi, XRS Land, Fernanda Porto, Jair Oliveira, Max De Castro, Bojo, Anvil FX, and Edu H.
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STCD 2012CD
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2000 release. Andrea Marquee made Zumbi, her first album, with São Paulo's YBrazil? musicians's collective, most notably guitarist and composer Maurício Tagliari and electronic beats producer Rica Amabis. They reimagined pieces by earlier Brazilian innovators such as Caetano Veloso and Jorge Ben, and Marquee and Tagliari wrote original songs that drew from samba, bossa nova, tropicália, hip-hop and EDM. The result was, as The Guardian applauded, "an impressive collision of Brazilian melody with new global rhythm patters and technology." All Music called Andrea Marquee "one of the most interesting and adventurous singers in Brazilian popular music."
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STCD 2016CD
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2002 Release. Guitarist Maurico Tagliari, vibraphonist Guga Stroeter, and clarinetist and pianist Luca Raele inhabit a rarified sector of the São Paulo music scene where Brazilian genres, American jazz, European schools and emerging trans-global styles intersect. For Free Bossa (Nouvelle's fourth album) they invited Estela Cassilatti to sing with them, Marinho Andreotti to play the double bass, and half-a-dozen percussionists to sit in (but not all at once). They recorded a few choice chestnuts (Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin & Gershwin, Reinhardt & Grappelli, Redding & Cropper), several Brazilian songs and dances, an homage to Ornette Coleman, some very fine original compositions, and a poem, all in their own fresh style. "Altogether divine." - (AllMusic).
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STCD 2015CD
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2000 release. "What would 'heavy' music sound like if its practitioners knew more than a couple of rhythms and, even better, how to blend them? What if headbanging wasn't a back-and-forth motion but worked in various degrees of side-to-side movements, too? What if metal had room for musicology? Nacao Zumbi, from Recife in northeastern Brazil, answered these questions and thrashed out their position in a deeply impressive midnight set at CBGB on Wednesday." --Ben Ratliff, The New York Times, July 28, 2000 (one week before the release of Rádio S.amb.a)
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2000 release. Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordionist born in 1912 in the boondocks of northeastern Brazil, might seem an odd honoree of a tribute from such a diverse array of 21st-century vanguardists as funk-punks Nação Zumbi, jazz sophisticates Nouvelle, world percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, laptop wizard DJ Dolores, chic chanteuse Andrea Marquee, and protest singer Otto, but listen to this surprising and very enjoyable album, and it all makes sense. Like Gonzaga, who was an outsider and boundary-crosser too, these artists are deeply rooted in Brazilian folk traditions but not at all restrained by them. Also includes tracks by Black Alien, Speed Freaks, Rica Amabis; Mestre Ambrósio; Eddie; Sheik Tosado; Stela Campos; Chão e Chinelo; João Carlos; Comadre Florzinha; Cascabulho; Mundo Livre S/A; and Anvil FX & Lex Lilith.
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2002 release. DJ Dolores (Helder Aragão) made his name in the febrile yet fecund "mangue beat" scene in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recifé in the '90s, composing theatrical and film music as well as DJing. For his aptly titled debut album, Contraditório?, he teamed with Orchestra Santa Massa, integrating his laptop with rustic folk instruments like rabeca fiddles and maracatu drums. The resulting album, which David Byrne called "great" and RootsWorld described as "a field recording made in a space station," went on to win a BBC World Music Award.
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Record Store Day release. Criolo keeps his fans happy with a single while he works on his next album. Released in a limited edition of 500 copies on a 45 rpm white vinyl 10" record, individually numbered. "Duas de Cinco" ("Two of Five") is the kind of old-school topical hip-hop that made Criolo famous in the favelas and inner city of São Paulo. Over insistent sampled beats, Criolo raps dense rhymes boldly critical of Brazil today. An instrumental version of "Duas de Cinco" follows the vocal version on the single's A-side. The B-side is "Cóccix-Ência" ("Coccyx Excellence"), neo-Tropicalia recorded live with Criolo's outstanding band. Produced by Daniel Ganjaman and Marcelo Cabral.
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Criolo's Nó Na Orelha (trans. "Knot in the Ear") is one of the most lauded Brazilian albums in years. The Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone named it "Album of the Year" and chose the track "Não Existe o Amor em SP" (trans. "Love Doesn't Exist in São Paulo") as "Song of the Year." This year Criolo won MTV Brasil's award for "Best Album," "Best Song" and "Best New Artist." At the televised award ceremony the great Caetano Veloso, declared Criolo "possibly the most important figure on the Brazilian pop scene," and joined the younger man for a heartfelt duet. The "Best New Artist" recognition was a bit late in coming. Criolo was 36 when he received it, and he'd been performing in the favelas and inner city of São Paulo for over 20 years. He'd been writing rhymes and songs for even longer. Having grown up in a mud-floored shack on the rough outskirts of this ultramodern megacity of 11 million inhabitants, Criolo (whose given name is Kieber Gomes) had found in music -- especially hip-hop -- the means both to express his rage at the poverty and crime around him and to rise from his disadvantaged origins. He became a leader of São Paulo's hip-hop underground and co-founder of a cultural center that drew DJs, MCs and fans from all over the city to its weekly freestyle rap throw-downs. In 2006, he released his debut album, but Nó Na Orelha is definitely his breakthrough achievement, thrusting him, seemingly overnight, from the underground to national stardom and now international attention. He's come a long way from his musical base, too. The styles displayed on Nó Na Orelha range from hip-hop to samba, Tropicalia, reggae, Afrobeat and electronic dance music, and Criolo proves himself to be an affecting singer as well as a skilled rapper. His subjects are also varied, and his poetic take on them reveal an incisive intelligence.
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STERNS 2023LP
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Gatefold LP version on 180 gram vinyl. Includes a free digital download for the album, plus a bonus dub mix.
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