I don’t know what The Gentlemen were on when they recorded ‘Sorriso Selbagem’ but whatever it was, we all need some more of this Psychedelic Pernambuco from Recife in the north east of Brazil.
Continue reading V/A – Psychedelic Pernambuco
Posts tagged Seu Jorge
Calexico’s guitarist records solo album with his mates in Arizona and it sounds as good as you’d expect, a fantastic debut for DePedro!
David Bowie is one of those artists that has crossed time and musical boundaries throughout his career and this compilation of cover versions does exacttly the same with a right cross section of modern day heroes.
While the host nation to this gig was tuned into a football match, the mainly Latin audience danced, roared and sang their way through an exceptional evening of music
Continue reading Seu Jorge and Airto Moreira – Royal Festival Hall (Live Review)
With 32 tracks squeezed into just over 57 minutes ‘Brazilian Bits ‘N Pieces’ acts as a crash course in contemporary Brazilian music and, according to its promoters at least, is the world’s first officially licensed all-Brazilian cut-and-paste mix
You may recognise Chris Frank and Brazilian vocalist Nina Miranda from Da Lata (Prá Manhã and the brilliant ‘Serious’), Smoke City (‘Underwater Love’) and Chris & Nina’s ‘Mash Banana’ on Especial Records. Well you can forget most of that, as Zeep takes on a far more relaxed and organic form
If you got the brilliant Mitchell & Dewbury album Rapping With the Gods from 2003, you’ll know how good this album will be
Continue reading The Mitchell & Dewbury Band – Beyond The Rains
The debut album on his own Lion Head Recordings, it could have been subtitled, lessons from the desk of the master or something equally Lee Perry/King Tubby like
Currently on his UK tour promoting, just enough time to check out his pre-Cru album
The meeting of City Of God star’s “smoky voice” from Rio and the ‘forro’ from the Northeast of Brazil transplanted to NYC’s Nublu club on a Wednesday night is a winning combination.
Continue reading Forro In The Dark Feat. Seu Jorge – Suor De Pele Fina
It’s about time we heard from Victor Davies again and there a few sparklers on this his third album
It is a good time for Luaku Bop to re-release this CD as we seem to be ready for some Brazilian showmanship.
