A traditional / digital Brazilian mashup that works.
This album was amazing. Santtanna uses the acoustic/singer-songwriter equation that a lot of Brazilian people do, but there is a digi-edge to his work. Clearly inspired by Tom Zé, this album starts off with a sweet mash-up then quickly transfers to the meat of the album. The mash-up foreshadows the album of being a mixture of traditional Brazilian music and digital experimentation of bossa nova. The native of tongue Portuguese gets utilized but mainly it’s English with a thick accent.
Reviewed by: Zachary Graham
RIYL: Tom Zé, Awesome music
Recommended tracks: All of them! My favorites were 1, 4, 5 and 7. But they are all great.
FCC warning: None
Label: Mais Um Discos
Release date: September 27th, 2011