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Celia Mara may have a dark voice and a serious message but Santa Rebeldia is an inherently fun album, for the most part at least.

Growing up in Minas Gerias amidst the drums of Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble, eerie Christian chants and melancholic local folklore has clearly had an influenced on Celia and her music bears the proof.

She often goes under the moniker ‘bastardista’, the music being her bastard offspring.

On the track ‘Nana Buruke’ gospel choruses rub up against lingering guitar riffs, while on ‘Ilegal da Geladeria’ it’s computer effects and the wonderfully Brazilian sound of the cuica.

Elsewhere there hints of reggaeton, punk, samba-funk and Spanish pop with more traditional Brazilian sounds of Brazil popping up though out.

At school, it’s claimed, her gender precluded her from playing percussion and her class (read wealth) placed other instruments out of her reach. Now she’s getting her own back rattling through a long list of instruments and drawing on a range of sounds.

This is one for the hostels and student halls of Europe and South America; Manu Chao meets Yerba Buena meets Carlinhos Brown meets…