Entropia-Entalpia is a multi-instrumentalist and producer from Recife, who, following a two-year stint in Angola, moved to São Paulo, becoming a linchpin within the city’s world-revered alternative club scene. An integral member of the coveted Mamba Negra collective,... Read Article
Brazilian contemporary jazz has another great representative: Amaro Freitas. From Recife, in north-eastern Brazil, the young pianist combines classic jazz with his musical roots, such as the Afro-Brazilian maracatu and the carnival sounds of frevo and baião. In... Read Article
Nação Zumbi originated in the early 90s, climbing like a ‘crab with brains’ from the fertile mud of the delta on which the north-eastern Brazilian city of Recife grew. Back in the 90s Recife was struggling, suffering under... Read Article
For his latest album, Apoio Marginal, Brazilian musician Juvenil Silva had the idea of creating each song with a new set of collaborators. Juvenil would turn up with a song, play guitar and sing vocals, and another set... Read Article
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will feature a retrospective of Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro‘s films this month. “Gabriel Mascaro: Ebbs and Flows” runs from 15 April through the 21st, though movie buffs can catch a screening of “Neon... Read Article
At first sight “Bruno” seems an unlikely recruit for the world of organised crime. He’s not from a favela, he is poor, but not desperately so, he’s educated to a certain level but yet like a lot of... Read Article
Fans of Raul Seixas, Lula Côrtes and Hawkwind are going to love “Amor Pesado”, a sweet new slice of Brazilian psych from Recife’s Tagore. The track continues the sound that Tagore – led by singer/guitarist Tagore Suassuna –... Read Article
Luiz Gabriel Lopes is the guitarist and lead singer of Graveola and TiãoDuá, two of Brazil’s most exciting bands and cornerstones of the music scene in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, which is where Luiz currently lives. He has picked... Read Article
It’s been a while since Alessandra Leão‘s last release, the intoxicating album Dois Cordões in 2009 which summed up a new mangue-folk sound perfectly, a distillation of North-Eastern Brazil’s rhythms into serene folk songs that highlighted Leão’s voice... Read Article
25th November, 2013 was a strange day. It was the day Sounds and Colours released our new book/CD Sounds and Colours Brazil. It was also the day that the incredible Brazilian artist Gilvan Samico passed away. The following... Read Article
Even though this is the age of remixing, repurposing, rescuing lost sounds and re-contextualizing old popular ones, it’s still quite hard for musicians to create a coherent intersection between the elements of each genre or style without sounding... Read Article
Eles Voltam (They’ll Come Back), written and directed by Marcelo Lordello, is an interesting development on the theme of spoilt, irritating adolescents. An argument in a car between a brother and sister – the stock of many a... Read Article
