Author: Toque De Prima

Format: Import

Release Date: 09-26-2000

Details: Amazon.ca For those who feel Brazilian music has lost momentum, this merrily percussive, samba-laced confection will prove a bracing tonic. The members of the group are hereditary Carioca (Rio-born) sambistas who met and re-met at recording sessions until they decided to do things their own way. While their style harks back to such grassroots traditionalists as Martinho Da Vila, the production values ​​are strictly up-to-date. A stellar convocation of guest artists is on hand to enhance the festivities, including singer-songwriter and Velas label honcho Ivan Lins, the torchy female vocalist Joyce, and journeyman sambista Zeca Pagodinho, who sits in on one of his own compositions. The album has a celebratory, unselfconscious carnival ambiance, as plinking guitars, woodwinds and brass, whining and sobbing cuicas (friction percussion played with an oil-soaked rag), brisk snare drums, and tambourines are propelled by the roaring report of surdo drums. --Christina Roden

UPC: 692057100927

EAN: 0692057100927

Languages: english

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New