Moreno Veloso is back in the limelight. 13 years after Music Typewriter, the album that set the tone for a new explosion of Brazilian music, Moreno has returned with Coisa Boa, a brand new album that has just... Read Article
Kassin is a hugely influential producer and musician in Brazil. He has been a member of Los Hermanos, The +2’s and Orquestra Imperial, and produced albums for Vanessa da Mata, Adriana Calcanhotto and Mallu Magalhães, to name just... Read Article
Snape Maltings – an ornate/rustic (they can co-exist) micro village built for Benjamin Britten recitals and related hijinks – was the setting for the inaugural FlipSide festival, an event billed as “a festival of Brazilian literature and music.”... Read Article
More than twenty years since the release of her first album, Adriana Calcanhotto has become one of Brazil’s most cherished and well-known voices. It is surprising then that this one-off show, forming part of the very first FlipSide... Read Article
The people behind FLIP, Brazil’s first and most well-respected literature festival, are this year launching a UK counterpart called FLIPSIDE. The event, will take place over three days (Friday 4th – Sunday 6th October) in Snape Maltings, tucked... Read Article
A new album of Adriana Calcanhotto songs covered by a wide variety of South American artists has just been released. It’s called Não Moro Mais em Mim and, best of all, it is free to download! Contributors to... Read Article
It is near impossible to categorise Arnaldo Antunes. He moves around the creative spectrum freely, as adept at novels as pop music as sound collages. His career so far inludes seven albums with his early band Titãs (between... Read Article
MPB is an acronym for Música Popular Brasileira or, in English, Brazilian Pop Music. It’s an amalgamation of styles that really took hold in the 70s and now accounts for a significant amount of the music made in... Read Article
