Author: Brazilectro Session

Format: Import

Release Date: 13-08-2002

Details: For some years now, electronic music has been readily dipping into the heritage of Brazilian music to add a little warmth to its metronomic rhythms. With this fourth session of its kind offered by the Hanover label Audiopharm, the tone is set from the very first track, "Amore," sung by Viennese crooner Louie Austen over a sun-drenched house tempo, with bright funky guitar parts, playful brass, radiant percussion, and a few crisp bleeps (reminiscent of Barry Manilow's "Copacabana"). It's a bit old-fashioned, but how can you resist? The selection then follows with a fine array of guests, among whom we note the very seventies charm of Japan's Fantastic Plastic Machine, the suave garage of Americans Blak Beat Niks (revisited by house prince Kerri Chandler), the hallucinatory trip-hop version of "Je t'aime moi non plus" (Gainsbourg) reworked by the Viennese duo Dzihan & Kamien, the spirited Latin-funk of John Beltran, or the veterans of Azymuth, brilliantly reinterpreted by Kenny Dope of Masters At Work. As you will have gathered, this selection, which is more musical than purely electronic, proves that Brazilian music has become universal and transgenerational. --Laurent Gilot

UPC: 693723073323

EAN: 0693723073323

Languages: spanish

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedGood