Marcelinho da Lua first came to prominence as a member of Bossacucanova, a group who emerged at the end of the 90s/beginning of the 00s as part of a new Brazilian sound, with artists such as themselves, Cibelle,... Read Article
It was a hot day in the beautiful town of Amarante, the Portuguese base of Brazil’s MIMO festival. I’m chatting to Otto prior to his show at Parque Ribeirinho in the evening and a day after seeing him... Read Article
Yes, there’s cumbia in Brazil! In a country so rich in rhythm, I’m glad to introduce you to this unofficial, yet popular, style of music. Cumbia was brought to Brazil by Amazonian radio in the mid 50s and... Read Article
Refuse/Resist is a brand new mixtape from DJ Machintal showing “a whole spirit of change that is articulating today in Brazil.” The mixtape contains a mix of underground Brazilian rap, percussive instrumentals and old school jazz and bossa... Read Article
Normally we would try and write a seperate post for all of these new releases, but frankly new Brazilian music is coming at us too thick and fast to waste too much time. So, we’ve lumped all of... Read Article
One of the problems we had with our recent compilation Musica da Massa! New Sounds of Pernambuco, which brought together music made in Pernambuco in 2010 and 2011, was that these restrictions meant we couldn’t include one of... Read Article
In 1992, in the Bar de Dona Edna, in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, the musician and cultural agitator Francisco de Assis França announced to his friends, “I mixed a hip-hop beat with a maracatu groove and it turned out... Read Article
A couple of weeks ago we announced that Red Hot + Rio 2, the new compilation from the Red Hot Organization featuring a variety of today’s artists covering tropicália classics, will feature the likes of Beck, Caetano Veloso,... Read Article
Some classic Otto action for you today with “Pra Ser Só Minha Mulher” off his 2004 Sem Gravidade album:
Seeing as we recently put our In a Nutshell guide to Mangue Beat online and also have just reviewed Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira featuring one song by Otto it seems only right that we put this early... Read Article
A two-disc set looking at Brazil’s underground music scene, Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira! (Hey! The New Brazilian Music!), shows how wide Brazilian artists are willing to spread their net for influences. Whereas the popular music in Brazil... Read Article
Every album Cibelle has made in her short career has represented something of a shift in style. On her debut self-titled album she continued the mix of electronica and bossa nova that she’d perfected when guesting on Suba’s... Read Article
