Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro (2xLP)

£28.00

Gatefold double black vinyl + liner notes + printed sleeves

Released by Sounds and Colours

IMPORTANT NOTE: this is for a discounted pre-order of Hidden Waters, and any contributions will go towards our Bandcamp Vinyl Campaign. If the campaign is unsuccessful all pre-orders will be reimbursed.

What can we say? This one is something of a labour of love for us, a double vinyl featuring so many artists from Rio de Janeiro that have dazzled us over these past 10-12 years, a period in which the underground music scene in Rio has flourished in spite of a government that has absolutely no interest in culture (to put it mildly). If you’re yet to be acquainted with Ana Frango Elétrico, Ava Rocha, Thiago Nassif, Negro Leo or Kassin’s work then you need to get on it, these lot are the present and future of Brazilian music!

Features a double black vinyl with gatefold, insert with liner notes written by two esteemed Brazilian journalists (Bernardo Oliveira and Leonardo Lichote) on the state of music in Rio and printed sleeves containing notes on each track by the artists themselves. The artwork was conceived and designed by Caio Paiva and Karina Yamane (with photography from Bruna Sussekind), some of our favourite Brazilians!

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Description

Featuring 20+ ground-breaking artists from Rio’s resurgent music scene, intent on bringing an avant-garde edge to bossa nova, samba, jazz and funk

Hidden Waters is our homage to a Rio de Janeiro music scene that has been bursting with creativity and camaraderie over the past decade. Centred around a pool of artists, poets, and musical innovators who flow between collaborative works and individual passion projects, this scene’s collective power has prompted a sea-change within carioca counterculture. Reclaiming derelict spaces and dissident sounds, they are now making ripples tantamount to musical revolution, finding admirers across the waters in the New York Times, The Wire and even at the Latin Grammys.

Theirs is the sound of contemporary Rio, marked by a hybridity that pools the popular and avant-garde, the cutting-edge and carnal, with echoes of everything from Tropicália, samba, disco and Candomblé to lo-fi rock, jazz, bossa nova and experimental electronics.

Hidden Waters features such musicians as iconic scene mainstays Negro Leo, Ava Rocha and Kassin, Brazilian jazz upstart Antônio Neves, critically-lauded avant-pop trailblazer Thiago Nassif, breakthrough artists Ana Frango Elétrico and Letrux, lo-fi psych rocker Lê Almeida, and sonic explorer Cadú Tenorio, as well as revelatory new voices Raquel Dimantas and ROSABEGE, among many others.

FROM HIDDEN WATERS,
A NEW WAVE IS RISING.

Additional information

Weight 400 g
Dimensions 30 × 30 × 1 cm

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