Brazil Classics 7

Rating

Album: Brazil Classics 7: What's Happening in Pernambuco, New Sounds of the Brazillian Northeast
#	Song Title	Time
1)	You Can Call Me - Eddie
2)	Juca Valley - Siba
3)	Bob - Otto
4)	Cobrinha (The Li'l Snake) - Tine
5)	Cabidela (Blood Stew) - Momboj¢
6)	Erectuos Cactus - Cabruˆra
7)	Poor Man With a Golden Grill, The - Cidadao Instigad
8)	Maroca - Mundo Livre S/A
9)	Carimbo/Coco Assassins, The - Na‡ao Zumbi
10)	Happy Moment - Vates E Violas
11)	Good Friends - Junio Barreto
12)	One Wrong Move, And I'll Be up the Creek - Wado E Realismo Fant stico
13)	Earthen Poetry - Alex Sant nna

Album: Brazil Classics 7: What's Happening in Pernambuco, New Sounds of the Brazillian Northeast
#	Song Title	Time
1)	You Can Call Me - Eddie
2)	Juca Valley - Siba
3)	Bob - Otto
4)	Cobrinha (The Li'l Snake) - Tine
5)	Cabidela (Blood Stew) - Momboj¢
6)	Erectuos Cactus - Cabruˆra
7)	Poor Man With a Golden Grill, The - Cidadao Instigad
8)	Maroca - Mundo Livre S/A
9)	Carimbo/Coco Assassins, The - Na‡ao Zumbi
10)	Happy Moment - Vates E Violas
11)	Good Friends - Junio Barreto
12)	One Wrong Move, And I'll Be up the Creek - Wado E Realismo Fant stico
13)	Earthen Poetry - Alex Sant nna

Performer Notes

Subtitled "What's Happening in Pernambuco," this seventh volume in Luaka Bop's influential Brazil Classics series examines the relatively new and revolutionary music scene in Northeast Brazil. Centered in the town of Recife (home to the late Chico Science), the Northeast scene--referred to by its locals as Mangue Bit--is still only in the midpoint of its second decade. Mangue is a petrie dish of musical hybrids: baiao and samba, carimb¢ and rap, frevo carnavala and punk, folk and electronica, all performed in a defiantly life-affirming way that, in spirit, resembles the can-do, boot-strap musical activism of the Clash, Public Enemy, and other pioneers.

Professional Reviews

Spin (p.98) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he album plays like a soundtrack to the most high-spirited place that you've never heard of."

Vibe (p.126) - "This intriguing compilation features revelatory tracks, new and old, from the region."

Global Rhythm (Publication) (p.50) - "In recent years, performers like Otto, with his quirky electronics, have spawned a new outgrowth of Brazil's northeastern roots, while Cabruera reinvigorates familiar rhythms with the energy of an alt-rock band."