After Jambú, Analog Africa’s recent compilation of indigenous music from northern Brazil, the grande dame of the region has joined the “party, party, party of our popular culture”. Hailing from the ‘Caribbean port’ of Belém, near where the... Read Article
Dona Onete’s latest video “Festa do Tubarão” (Shark Party), promises a rebujo in the music of Pará, a state in the Brazilian Amazon. Rebujo is slang to describe the currents that bring up nutrients from the river bottom.... Read Article
His friends used to say, “His accordion speaks for him”. However, the most notable contribution to the genre of forró marked by the arrival of Reginaldo Alves Ferreira, better known as ‘ Camarão’, was a horn section. Originating... Read Article
It’s been a while since we posted a mixtape from SoundGoods, which is a shame as if you want to find out some of the most exciting fringe dance music, old or new, in Brazil then SoundGoods is... Read Article
Stan Davis’ Secrets of the Rio Negro is a boy’s own paper piece of adventure fiction. Slash and Burn The preamble is straightforward and cursory. The hero, Martin Lockwood, recounts his somewhat spare childhood. His mother is almost... Read Article
To introduce her by saying that Dona Onete is a 73-year-old singer who has just released her début album, doesn’t quite do justice to an artist “entrapped” for decades in the body of a history professor and the... Read Article
Today we thought we’d highlight some new music from Belém of electro-pop band Strobo. The band came into life in January 2011 when Léo Chermont and Arthur Kunz decided that they wanted to start a new musical project... Read Article
Riding on a new wave of Bossa Nova, Céu e Mar (‘Sky and Sea’), Leila Pinheiro and Nelson Faria’s first worldwide release revisits classic Brazilian songs from great composers such as Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, Ivan Lins, Djavan,... Read Article
In the latest of Vincent Moon‘s Petites Planetes series he documents a music and dance ritual in Belém do Para, capturing the Umbanda Afro-Brazilian religion in one of it’s purest incarnations.
A great mixtape of new music for you today courtesy of our good friends at the SoundGoods blog (which is well worth checking out if you’re not already familiar). This is a 9-track mixtape highlighting some of the... Read Article
Cheeky new video here from Gaby Amarantos, the Queen of Tecnobrega:
