Provenance: Caxias Do Sul, Brazil. Catavento’s Ansiedade na Cidade . Ansiedade na Cidade by Catavento
Category: Brazil
Ana Frango Elétrico :: Promessa e previsões
Ana Frango Elétrico hails from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Released last week, her new record, Little Electric Chicken Heart, marks the artist’s third album in just 18 months. Biographical information online may be scant, but, no matter — the music speaks for itself.
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Boogarins
Brazil’s Boogarins recently released their third album, Sombrou Dúvida, a set which finds the group refining their Tropicália influenced, mutant psych-rock into a concentrated, glowing sheen. For this installment of the Lagniappe Sessions, the group lay their influences bare with covers from My Bloody Valentine, the Velvets, and the Kinks.
Tim Maia’s Seroma Years (1972-1977)
… I started to see these two-plus albums (and a posthumous Vol. 3) as the centerpieces of Tim’s most prolific, creative and influential phase, what I’d like to call his “Seroma” phase, named after the rehearsal space and production company of the same name. […]
Viajante da Fronteira (A Mixtape)
An imaginary journey back to the lagoon where Hermeto Pascoal, O Grupo, and some butterflies made music in the river. 17 otherworldly tracks from Brazil.
Azambuja & Cia :: Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos
As Mychal Denzel Smith recently wrote of Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly, “The worst political music sounds political.” Similarly, the worst comic music sounds comic. All due respect to Weird Al, the exception to […]
Seu Jorge And Almaz :: Everybody Loves The Sunshine
In 2010 LA’s Now Again Records dropped a 12″ of Brazilian singer-songwriter Seu Jorge backed by the group Almaz, comprised of drummer Pupillo, guitarist Lucio Maia and rounded out by bassist and composer Antonio […]
Luiz Melodia :: Maravilhas Contemporî¢neas
“We weren’t people that simply obeyed. You could say that we sidestepped all the house rules, the recording studio; we simply broke away from situations that weren’t convenient. I have […]
Zazou / Bikaye / Cy1 :: Noir et Blanc
It’s 1983. A chance encounter between Congolese musician Bony Bikaye, Algerian-born French composer / producer Hector Zazou & electronic duo Cy 1, resulted in this visionary (and until recently, rare) […]
Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978-1992
Earlier this year Netherlands-based reissue outfit Music From Memory released the wonderful and exquisitely strange compilation, Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978-1992 . A collection of exotic, otherworldly futurism and electronics, born from the . […]
Bola Sete :: Ocean
“Bola Sete’s music comes from everywhere and nowhere. The subconscious really is universal. Bola Sete’s music is the best reminder of this that I have ever heard. He is a […]
Marcos Valle :: Dez Leis (1970 / Reissues)
In 2013 Light In The Attic Records is set to reissue four of Marcos Valle ‘s 70s studio albums; now available for the first time in North America. Complimented by legendary Brazilian […]
Tecnicolor: Os Mutantes Lost Album
In October 1966 Rita Lee and brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias walked on stage for the first time as Os Mutantes to perform on a Brazilian TV show. In hindsight, it […]
Som Imaginario :: (Self-Titled)
This was Som Imaginario’s (Imaginary Sound) debut album from 1970; a Brazilian band that often backed the great Milton Nascimento just as Os Mutantes had backed Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso on […]
Os Mutantes :: Mutantes
Any Mutantes record is a mind-blower and this one makes an unforgettable introduction. The music and voice of Os Mutantes transcends any language barrier such that even the most literary […]