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UK VIbe Review of RELIQUIA - Sergio & Clarice Assad
24/08/16 23:11
This album got me thinking about the significance of family relationships in music. Am I the only one who thinks there must be something in the fact that there are quite so many familial connections in popular Brazilian music? The offspring of hugely successful artists like Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, Dorival Caymmi and Luiz Gonzaga have followed in their illustrious parent’s footsteps. Read More...
Jazz Latin Network Review of Clarice & Sergio Assad: Relíquia
21/08/16 23:11
Two years ago I signed off my critique of Clarice Assad’s album Imaginarium as being something to die for. A few days ago (August 6, 2016) I received my copy of Relíquia and I have to say that I would die again. There is a simple reason for being so besotted by Clarice Assad: she is a ‘heart’ singer and if one were to draw up a list of singers in Brasil or elsewhere, few – very few – come to mind. Elis Regina, perhaps, and Rosa Passos, maybe… But here Clarice Assad differs from those legendary singers in an elemental way. She is, to my mind, alone in her ability to unfold the cultural topography of Brasil like an elegant film, before your eyes. Read More...
KQED Review of Reliquia: Clarice & Sergio Assad
16/08/16 23:11
All the excitement of the Summer Olympics in Rio got me thinking about the long history of Brazilian music in California. In the 1940s, Carmen Miranda landed in Hollywood with her Bando da Lua, and Brazilian music hit the pop charts the early 1960s, when Americans took to the bossa nova.
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WONDERING SOUND
04/08/14 23:11
Perceptions of Brazilian music may have been shaped by international stars like Sergio Mendes and Gilberto Gil, but in a young country — 40 percent of the population is under the age of 24 — scenes spring up fast. Today Brazilian popular music is dominated by baile funk, the celebration of gangster culture that exploded out of the favelas a decade ago, samba rap, and funhouse-mirror takes on MPB (“Música Popular Brasileira”), where bossa nova and baião music is spliced with rock and arty beats.
The girl from Ipanema has been replaced by socially-conscious wordsmiths like Emicida, and artists such as anarchic funk group Metá Metá are reinventing Brazil’s glorious musical history with a harsh electronic edge. The new sound of Brazil is often fueled by anger — which spilled out in the protests against the excess of the World Cup preparations — and captured by labels like Mais Um Discos and Biscoito Fino, whose releases feel like snapshots from the frontline of a society in flux.
To celebrate the World Cup, Chris Nickson spotlights albums that are shaping Brazil’s musical revolution, from 10 of the hottest artists south of the equator. Read More...
The girl from Ipanema has been replaced by socially-conscious wordsmiths like Emicida, and artists such as anarchic funk group Metá Metá are reinventing Brazil’s glorious musical history with a harsh electronic edge. The new sound of Brazil is often fueled by anger — which spilled out in the protests against the excess of the World Cup preparations — and captured by labels like Mais Um Discos and Biscoito Fino, whose releases feel like snapshots from the frontline of a society in flux.
To celebrate the World Cup, Chris Nickson spotlights albums that are shaping Brazil’s musical revolution, from 10 of the hottest artists south of the equator. Read More...
The Disinherited
14/06/14 23:11
COMPOSER CLARICE ASSAD AND LIBRETTIST NILOUFAR TALEBI AT THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
THE DISINHERITED.
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