We don’t know what it is but seemingly every few years it seems like half of Brazil passes through London as gig after gig of top quality Brazilian music gets confirmed for the capital. Maybe it’s a World... Read Article
Heard across the web after a Nike video showed Ronaldinho playing indoor soccer along with scenes of him playing as a child, Barbatuques’ “Baião Destemperado”, from their 2002 album Corpo Do Som, will finally see the light on a vinyl edition.... Read Article
It’s always with immense pleasure that we publish any mixtape from Epic Vinyls From Brazil, and this latest is no different. Filled with incendiary Brazilian psych, funk and soul from the 60s and 70s this is the epitome... Read Article
It’s been 10 years since Zeca Pagodinho last played a show in London, but on the 29th November he returns to the English capital to perform one night only at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, celebrating 100 years of... Read Article
Nas Vozes De Cartola is quite honestly a collector’s item. For a reason unknown to this critic, Cartola has not been as formally introduced to global audiences as other Brazilian singer-songwriters such as Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque or Tom Jobim.... Read Article
When I spoke to Jorge Drexler last year about Bailar En La Cueva – his latest album and undoubtedly his most rhythmic to date – it seemed clear that his influences had grown over the years. The sounds... Read Article
“Gata, you’re going to have to earn your way up by playing the bars”. These are the words that greeted the carioca Flávia Coelho when she first decided to follow her idols and move to Paris. Nine years... Read Article
We are huge fans of Lucas Santtana, a Brazilian artist who has now firmly established himself on the international music scene. At the tail end of last year he released Sobre Noites E Dias, his sixth record and... Read Article
Back in 2013 when we were putting together our book about Brazil – see Sounds and Colours Brazil – the experimental music scene in Rio de Janeiro (which had been simmering for some time) had begun to get... Read Article
Brazilian legends Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil have just announced a joint show to be held at London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith in July. The duo – responsible for the birth of tropicália and for countless great works over... Read Article
Russo Passapusso’s debut solo release, Paraíso da Miragem, marks the arrival of a major talent. The album occasionally recalls the music of the 1970s, but it is very much in line with the exciting sounds that have emerged... Read Article
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
