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With the imminent arrival of Seu Jorge in the UK, it was time to have a look at his guest appearance with Forro In The Dark. The track ‘Suor De Pele Fina’ has some heavy beats, distorted guitar and vibes in an echo chamber that could sound like a mess but Jorge keeps it all together beautifully. And he plays bass on this track. Is there no end to the guy’s talents?

Forro In The Dark are lead by Mauro Refosco who has worked with the likes of Bebel Gilberto, David Byrne, and Caetano Veloso, Smokey Hormel (half of Smokey & Miho - check out the review of Milho’s latest “elemental celebration” album Ecdysis), with Rob Curto on accordion and the horns of Jon Birdsong.

Mawglee puts some big beat into the proceedings on his remix but the track for me is the trip hoppy dub of the b-side remix by Zeb. He also goes under the name of the Spy From Cairo and there’s certainly a feel of that with the bulging bass and knob twiddling.

We love the accordion at fly, the the ‘bonus’ track is a little bit of a goodie on the mix of semi-broken-gypsy-Afro-samba-breaks of Flavinho Megabyte’s ‘Let There Be Dark’ Mix of a track called ‘O Baile de Bio Laurinda’.

I must find out what ‘Suor de Pele Fina’ means but we love this 12” as all the tracks are so in Biggabush cross-genre territory.

Reviewed: Forro In The Dark - ‘Suor De Pele Fina’ (Nublu Records/Discograph) Cat. No. NUB 12002, 6139836 Release Date: Feb 2006

Tracklisting:
A1 Suor de Pele Fina
A2 Suor de Pele Fina (Mawglee’s Breaks)
B1 Suor de Pele Fina (Zeb’s Forrotone Mix)
B2 O Baile de Bio Laurinda (Flavinho Megabyte’s Let There Be Dark Mix)

Links:
www.seujorge.com
www.forrointhedark.com
www.mawglee.com
www.bastardjazz.com
www.smokeyandmiho.com
www.mihohatori.com