Thursday, August 11 2011
O Bando: O Bando
O Bando was richly produced, with full orchestral arrangements for each song, fuzzy flowerpower rock, vocal harmonies, and the multigenre flavour of a British pop Brazil.
Tuesday, June 7 2011
‘don’t take it personally’: Identity Performance and Surveillance Culture
Christine Love captures the impulsive, shortsighted character of adolescence phenomenally well here, including the reproduction of all the expectations and sex-obsessed attitudes our mass media have thrust upon these kids.
Tuesday, May 24 2011
Telebossa: Telebossa
Bussmann surrounds Mello's soft voice with the sound of corks popping, and then circles around him in an avant-garde, repetitive way with the cello.
Wednesday, March 2 2011
Hangin’ with the New Bolivarians in Oliver Stone’s ‘South of the Border’
Oliver Stone has chosen to channel his 'radical' political leanings into his documentaries, and this film would seem to bear that out.
Thursday, September 30 2010
Luísa Maita: Lero-Lero
There are numerous moments within these samba-influenced songs that mark points of departure from the norm and signal an artist capable of making her own mark on the international stage.
Friday, February 26 2010
SambaDá: Gente!
North American Brazilians who adore samba, capoeira, and rips of surf guitar.
Thursday, October 1 2009
Various Artists: Comfusões 1: From Angola to Brasil
The album's personality sits somewhere between Angolan lament and the more extroverted intervention of the Brazilians.
Wednesday, August 19 2009
Elizete Cardoso: Canção do Amor Demais
She sounds like a woman who has grown experienced without also having grown bitter, rueful but far from broken.
Wednesday, May 13 2009
Márcio Local: Don Dree Don Day Don Don
There's such delight and energy in everything he does that if he has a success with this album, it will be hard to grudge him his good luck.
