Three years in the making, Érica’s Beautiful album is a break from labels and deals, her call for artistic freedom. This collection of songs reflects the times and the urgent need for the world to focus on nature, beauty and harmony; a musical manifesto for the end of all oppression. 
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All tracks written and produced by Érica Alves. 
“What is Ours” co-produced with Pedro Zopelar.
Produced at Red Bull Studios São Paulo July 2015
Mix: Rodrigo Coelho
Master: Tomba Records Niterói, Brazil 
Photography: Murillo José
Cover design: COLLA GG

Baphyphyna Records, 2017

Beautiful

Gravado 12/02/2024 ao vivo na festa Deseo Latino no Bar Dellas, Rio de Janeiro

Deseo Latino - Carnaval 2024

Festa BAPHY @Tau 17 02 24 Rio de Janeiro

Live Act - Nave D-Edge 30/03/2024

WAVE Tapes Vol. 4 http://waveliveact.bandcamp.com

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Érica - It Is What It Is (FREE DOWNLOAD)

banality of evil

Faixa para a coletânea Hy Brazil Vol. 9 (Outubro 2015)
Curadoria: Chico Dub
https://chicodub.bandcamp.com/album/hy-brazil-vol-9-more-fresh-electronic-music-from-brazil-2015

Coletânia REAL RIO - Mais um Discos (Agosto 2016)
Curadoria: Chico Dub
https://maisumdiscos.bandcamp.com/track/erica-alves-teco-no-rap

Teco no rapé (Érica Alves)

Contradição
Calejada pela ira da condição
Não vou ver mais
Nem mistérios, nem critérios
Nem capitais

Sacudi
Saqualé
Já tequei no rapé
Chá com dança
Chá de coca
Chá da nossa redenção
Já fui lá
Já vivi
Já cumpri o meu papel

Contradição
Calejada pela ira da condição
Não vou ver mais
Nem mistérios, nem critérios
Nem capitais

Na América do Sul 
Onde o índio vive nu
Onde até o capiau
É um rei, é um fidalgo
Já fui lá
Já vivi
Já cumpri o meu papel

REAL RIO

Teco no Rapé

Ideological correctness
Ideologically correct art

Degeneration starts when revolution is raffled
Reestablish the notion of sin
Sin as selling of rights in the name of the Lord
Approximate the notion of time
And then finally os space and movement
Capturing movements
Dynamism
Take the atom out of closed circuits
And obsessions with balance and order
We are comets
We are waves

We leave ours smells behind in a puff of smoke
Baphos

Ideological
Ideologically correct
Art
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All tracks written and produced by Érica Alves. 
“What is Ours” co-produced with Pedro Zopelar.
Produced at Red Bull Studios São Paulo July 2015
Mix: Rodrigo Coelho
Master: Tomba Records Niterói, Brazil 
Photography: Murillo José
Cover design: COLLA GG

Baphyphyna Records, 2017

Manifesto

Big Brother is watching you
Filming your every move
He sinks into your thoughts
Controlling his robots

It’s 1984
The year we count no more it’s true
Blue
We have no words at hand
We cannot express what we stand
Trance

Big Brother is watching you
Seeing the things you do
The newspeak’s new command
Must obey most you can

The thought police are gone
Maybe we can run for our lives
Fast
Your presumption is ungood
Someone should smash this telescreen
Mean
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All tracks written and produced by Érica Alves. 
“What is Ours” co-produced with Pedro Zopelar.
Produced at Red Bull Studios São Paulo July 2015
Mix: Rodrigo Coelho
Master: Tomba Records Niterói, Brazil 
Photography: Murillo José
Cover design: COLLA GG

Baphyphyna Records, 2017

Big Brother

They say the writer is the weaver of dreams 
What kind of dreams do we all dream? 
I can only tell now of how it is to wake 
And start to change the world around 
 
Reality is now the check we sign 
All this upheaval is our fate 
I can't remember what I dreamt last night 
When morning comes it fades away 
 
This irksome cloud that hangs above our heads 
It's telling all of us to stop 
But on the Monday after we bow down 
To make the ends of our lives meet  
This roof that covers the top of my head 
Beneath the feet of someone else 
And down below my gutter joins with yours 
in this barbaric paradise 
 
This city sucks the marrow 
This city rots your brain 
If it's not happening here 
It's not anywhere else 
 
Where do your dreams reside? 
Where is your appetite? 
What are we yearning for? 
What are we learning for?
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All tracks written and produced by Érica Alves. 
“What is Ours” co-produced with Pedro Zopelar.
Produced at Red Bull Studios São Paulo July 2015
Mix: Rodrigo Coelho
Master: Tomba Records Niterói, Brazil 
Photography: Murillo José
Cover design: COLLA GG

Baphyphyna Records, 2017

This City

I’ll wait till this feeling goes away
I won’t see the light of day
Shut myself inside my room
Till the end of your zoom
There’s a flower in the bloom
I’ll be going home soon
I’ll stay here all afternoon

Nothing can take me
Nothing can fool me
I’m gonna stay home
And live through
Murky water
Murky life
Murky water
Murky smile
Murky water
Murky heart
I refuse to be your muse
One might assume
I wonder what you are
We have no warmth
We have no pay
We have no bread
We have no butter
Down in the gutter

When I refuse tell this broken heart
Feel it away to refuse to depart
I live for the truth

I can change the way
I can change my hair
I can do what I want to do
I don’t mind when my nature is on
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All tracks written and produced by Érica Alves. 
“What is Ours” co-produced with Pedro Zopelar.
Produced at Red Bull Studios São Paulo July 2015
Mix: Rodrigo Coelho
Master: Tomba Records Niterói, Brazil 
Photography: Murillo José
Cover design: COLLA GG

Baphyphyna Records, 2017

Baphyphoça

I wanna laugh
Ha ha ha ha
Just sit and laugh
Ha ha ha ha
Don’t wanna cry out of my heart
No drama, please
No drama queens
Don’t wanna cry out of my mind
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All tracks written and produced by Érica Alves. 
“What is Ours” co-produced with Pedro Zopelar.
Produced at Red Bull Studios São Paulo July 2015
Mix: Rodrigo Coelho
Master: Tomba Records Niterói, Brazil 
Photography: Murillo José
Cover design: COLLA GG

Baphyphyna Records, 2017

Nocrywave

NOCRYWAVE

Can’t stand going to sleep again 
I can’t stand having another night 
And lay me down to sleep 
 
It’s been a couple of years 
Since I’ve been able 
To lay my head to sleep 
Oh, I can’t 
I just sleep to dream 
I was 17 
When I could finally breathe 
I have lost 
All of my beliefs 
And it’s been a relief 
To be able to leave 
Oh and I left 
I left it all behind 
I left it all behind 
I put the past behind 
I heard once 
We had to be true to ourselves 
Look at the present 
Forget about the future 
Forget about the past 
Forget it all 
Look beyond the fall 
It’s better for us 
Better for us all 
It’s better for us all 
If we just look past 
Look past our silly lives 
Look past look past our big behinds 
We gotta learn to fight for ourselves 
This battle ain’t fought by nobody else 
You can’t wait till it’s over
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All tracks written and produced by Érica Alves. 
“What is Ours” co-produced with Pedro Zopelar.
Produced at Red Bull Studios São Paulo July 2015
Mix: Rodrigo Coelho
Master: Tomba Records Niterói, Brazil 
Photography: Murillo José
Cover design: COLLA GG

Baphyphyna Records, 2017

Better for us all

Better for us All

I wonder why we fall at all 
There is something beautiful about love 
I’d like to share what I feel 
Because it’s what I’m thinking of 
It’s a feeling that creeps up 
Under your neck 
Above the breast 
It feels warm 
At the same time it feels strong 
And when I breathe in 
The feeling gets more intense 
It’s what we’re striving for 
And it has no end 
We are aware of the lack of it 
And right inside my chest 
It’s the best 
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All tracks written and produced by Érica Alves. 
“What is Ours” co-produced with Pedro Zopelar.
Produced at Red Bull Studios São Paulo July 2015
Mix: Rodrigo Coelho
Master: Tomba Records Niterói, Brazil 
Photography: Murillo José
Cover design: COLLA GG

Baphyphyna Records, 2017

Hey, I've got news 
I don't know if it's bad 
Hey, we can choose 
to turn this into a tragedy 
but we won't 
 I have no interest in demotivation 
This is the way it's got to go 
I have no reason to be devastated 
Back on the train 
We'll do it again 

Here's the plan 
I don't care if it's mad 
Yeah, there's a chance 
To tear down the walls 
that we built for ourselves 
and we walk 
Walk on the land we have lost 
We have lost and we can still regain 
What is ours is ours is ours 
There's no turning back 
Forever's our track 

What's your name? 
Come to the party we started 
while we had our fame 
Glad you came 
But you've got to change 
your perception 
of where you remain 
 
There is no need for an investigation 
This is the price we have to pay 
But when we commune 
we will soon, we will soon 
bring out the storm 
the gates will be torn
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All tracks written and produced by Érica Alves. 
“What is Ours” co-produced with Pedro Zopelar.
Produced at Red Bull Studios São Paulo July 2015
Mix: Rodrigo Coelho
Master: Tomba Records Niterói, Brazil 
Photography: Murillo José
Cover design: COLLA GG

Baphyphyna Records, 2017

What is Ours?

What Is Ours?

BEX - Human
Sifonics - Açúcar
Indiia - Sun Iansã
Yule - Toque de Loluk
Carla Valenti & Gingerella - Matheus 25
Tata Ogan - Afrobrasilis Xangô
Sabine Holler - Hot Sauce
Cine mad in Chaos - Disco bombing
Cultrix - Controlled Ordeal
Mariana Degane - De Boca
Carolina Ribeiro - Tarraxa da Elevação (feat. FUSO!)
Mari Herzer feat. Zopelar - Narcosis 
Sokak - Urubu feat. J. Abramovay
Samira Loures - Girls PWR
Letrux - Hypnotized (Noizzed Remix)
Tunna - Flerte Moderno
Claudia Assef - Cuide de Você
Natalia - Revolução das Bruxas

Women's Music Event Mix

MAWW Records is proud to present the amazing singer-songwriter Érica Alves with her solo project called "Érica". Born in Nova Friburgo, countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Érica has taken part in several different musical projects. She started doing lo-fi recordings using a Yamaha PSR series at age 12, played in psychedelic rock bands like "Café da meia noite" and "Motherfunk" in college, and currently lives in Sao Paulo working with the groups "The Drone Lovers" and "Anvil FX", both artists of our label. 

Most of the songs on this tape were composed by Érica in 2009-2010. She moved to São Paulo and began working on these solo compositions with her friend Pedro Zopelar in his home studio. 

"At first we recorded the demos in my room. We start creating grand arrangements with orchestra plug-ins, multiple channels, an entire band, but we had not achieved a truly authentic sound. Only after a while, when I bought my first Portastudio cassette, we decided to put this record to life. We rearranged everything in 4 channels and finally got the result we strived for! Something that sounds really soulful and homemade, without covering up the true vibes with pitch correctors or other digital resources. Nowadays, digital home studio tracks do not sound like they are made in bedrooms, so we found a way to give authenticity back to home recording," says Pedro Zopelar, producer and creator of MAWW Records. 

Check out the strength of Érica's songs: near danceable lo-fi-trip-synth-pop with the good old "hiss" of an analog recording.
credits
released 11 April 2013 
To Believe recorded in Sao Paulo/SP, 
November 2012 - January 2013 on 8 tracks Yamaha MT8X Cassette. 
Produced By: Pedro Zopelar. 
All music and lyrics by Erica Alves. 
All Arragements by Pedro Zopelar and Erica Alves. 
Mixed and Mastered at home by Pedro Zopelar. 
Cover Art by Pedro Zopelar. 
Graphic Design by Kureb. 

Publishing: Alternet Music.

01 To Believe

02 New Again

03 Sordid Game

04 Digging My Weeds

05 The River

06 Don't Let Me In

07 Sordid Game (Karaoke Bonus Track)

08 Don't Let Me In (Karaoke Bonus Track)

Érica é produtora musical, DJ, cantora e professora residente de Niterói, RJ. 
Foi através de seu live act de sintetizadores e vocais, misturando jazz, música eletrônica e pós-punk, que Érica garantiu sua participação no circuito nacional de música independente, a partir da qual se manteve em circulação em festivais e eventos de música eletrônica, garantindo participação em projetos como The Drone Lovers, residências artísticas pela Red Bull Music Academy (São Paulo, Paris e Montréal), e duas indicações de Melhor Produtora Musical no WME Awards. 
Com seu álbum "Beautiful" (Baphyphyna, 2017), ganhou reconhecimento como produtora musical, e desde então tem lançado singles e EPs em selo renomados como Subliminar, Banana Gold, In Their Feelings, Me Gusta Records, Sorry Daddy Rec, U’reguay Records e seu próprio selo, Baphyphyna.
Como DJ, Érica tem uma carreira consistente e de destaque e liderança na cena nacional, já tendo feito turnês nas cinco regiões do país, fomentado eventos e diversos novos talentos. Já se apresentou em grandes casas, festas e eventos como D-Edge, ODD, Selvagem, Mamba Negra, Carlos Capslock, Warung Beach Club, Tomorrowland Brasil, TribalTech, Universo Paralello, Caos Campinas e Café Jeri.
Além disso, Érica também transita por diversos Listening Bars das principais capitais do país, com seu amplo repertório de música brasileira, R’n’B, clássicos do Baile Charme, anos 80, house e disco. Já esteve nos decks de bares como o pioneiro do gênero, Caracol Bar (SP), Auê (SP), Heavy House (SP), Comuna (RJ) Celeste Lavradio (RJ), Macuna (RJ), Calma (RJ), KSA Centro (RS), o que a qualificou para assumir a função de DJ do SESC Pulsar por dois anos seguidos, 2023 e 2024.

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