Quilombo do Futuro dives deep into afro-brazilian rhythms and sound system culture.  It's the roots of the terreiro growing and overtaking the asfalto.  Crumbling it bit by bit.  Life that springs from urban decay.  Coco, maculelê, samba, jongo and capoeira meet ragga and dub, hip hop and kuduro, grime and dubstep. Organic elements combined with electronic production to bring the punch and power for big sound systems, this is serious batucada and bass, mids, treble. TUDO.

Maga Bo has performed and worked in over 40 different countries - from Delhi to Sydney, Berlin to Addis Ababa, New York City to Brasília, all the while keeping his feet (and ears) firmly planted in the sonic axis RJ/SP/BA - Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador.  Inspired as much by his experiences touring internationally in the global beats and bass world as his time spent in the traditional Afro-Brazilian roots scene in Rio de Janeiro, Quilombo do Futuro offers a careful juxtaposition of raw, heavy bass with organic, instrumental and vocal subtlety.  Far from relying on pre-made loops of "Brazilian" drums or other shallow cultural signifiers, this album was recorded with some of the most original and brightest musicians in Brazil today. 

Working with celebrated Brazilian musicians, BNegão, Gaspar, Lucas Santtana and Marcelo Yuka, the record also brings in new talents, Funkero, Biguli and one of the most innovative groups in Brazilian music today, BaianaSystem.  Bo's mestre of capoeira angola, Mestre Camaleão, brings the berimbau while Rosângela Macedo's vocals hold down tradition.  Guyanese Brooklynite, Jahdan Blakkamoore, and Panamanian Chicagoite, MC Zulu, bring the dancehall vibe to riddims that most don't even try to touch.  All percussion was tracked and produced by Maga Bo and his long time partner in riddim, percussionist and fellow carioca, João Hermeto. 

A quilombo was an autonomous, fugitive settlement founded by ex-slaves and others in colonial brazil.  The Quilombo do Futuro is more than a possible physical space.  It is a potential world-wide agglomeration of cultural resistance.  After centuries of wealth generated by an economy built on slavery (and the subsequent post-abolition adaptations), the Quilombo do Futuro is a break from this legacy.  Fortified by an international community based on plurality, inclusive democracy and direct communication, cultural resistance is paramount in creating a sustainable, healthy existence in the face of world-wide corporate domination.  

Born in the United States and based in Rio de Janeiro since 1999, Maga Bo has collaborated with Mulatu Astatke, Issa Bagayogo, Bollywood star Shilpa Rao, BaianaSystem as well as releasing critically acclaimed remixes for Poirier, Luisa Maita, Filastine, Blick Bassy and Bomba Estéreo.  His music and remixes have also been released on Tru-Thoughts, Ninja Tune, Cumbancha, Dutty Artz, World Connection and many others.  Among his many international tours, he has performed at the Sydney Festival, WOMEX, Club Transmediale and Mundial.

Quilombo do Futuro

As Mulheres Da Minha Nação

"Rastafari. Fire Torch
Wah gwaan mi bredda Gappy?
You know seh when mi check it out 
Some youths can't even make a march

Hi there, that's a nice pair
Well comfortable inna your Nike Air
Expensive to nuff, it cost a lot of cash
So watch the posing inna the 3 stripe Adidas 


There's ghetto youths walking barefoot on the ground
Oh oh oh. Oh nah noy
I don't wanna see them face it all alone
Oh no. And it hurt me so


Yeah
Youths them a try but still them can't get no bligh
Now a desolate place them trod it in life to survive
Lack of opportunity the ghetto youth them put aside
Pure darkness inna them life, so Torch bring them inna the light yeah


There's ghetto youths walking barefoot on the ground
Oh oh oh. Go nah noy
I don't wanna see them face it all alone
Wow. Gappy it hurt me so, yeah

Cause ghetto youths walking barefoot on the ground
Go nah noy
And I don't wanna see them face it all alone
Oh no. And it hurt me so
Ay, them fi know yeah


Read between the lines this is not about shoes
So much years ghetto youths ah get used
Go away Mr. Drunk pon Booze, vanity you worship and your so confused

The media weh them ah use to stray your mind from the truth
and ah many of the youths them trick inna the flashy suit, but
Ball of fire burn so bright, 
Gappy Ranks and Torch arise
For equal justice and the rights
Yo oh oh, yeah

Ask them
How do you sleep at night, 
when you know seh a ghetto youth ah sleep outside?
Tell me how do you sleep at night,
 when you know many ah die from your tricks and your lies, yeah


There's ghetto youths walking barefoot on the ground
I tell you, yeah. Go nah noy
I don't wanna see them face it all alone
Oh no, oh no, it hurt me so

Yeah
Cause ghetto youths walking barefoot on the ground
Go nah noy
I don't wanna see them face it all alone, alone
And, it hurt me so. Oh oh oh oh


Mr. Baldhead, Mr. Dreadlock
Say him have the city lock inna him Reebock
Memba seh some ghetto youths will never see that
It doesn't mean them ah go end up as a idiot

So with the youths today, give them a better way
Nuff hungry mouths to feed. No barefooted dem pon the street, yeah
Big man your money cannot help you, 
when the gun you give them it ah buss up pon you. Oh oh

Now the moral of the story, is to always give Jah the glory
Oh yeah. If you don't know the ghetto story, 
we put them where them deh now them ah act like them no know we


There's ghetto youths walking barefoot on the ground
I tell you wow. Go nah noy
I don't wanna see them face it all alone
Gappy yeah, how it hurt me so

Yeah, cause ghetto youths walking barefoot on the ground
I said, go nah noy
I don't wanna see them face it all alone
Oh no, how it hurt me. It hurt me so 


Gappy Ranks, ay lead the youths them out of Bobbywrong
Oh, oh oh oh
Hey Babylon, oh Babylon, your city haffi burn yeah

Torch the Ever Burning Flame, oh seh the fire it ah blaze
Lead the youths them out of Bobbywrong"

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Gappy Ranks - Barefoot (Feat. Torch)

08 Brasil disse que tem

África ~ Ponto de Equilíbrio

Riddim Colony - Jah Jah Love

Ukiemana - Paz e Amor

Esse trio vocal, surgido na década de 60, fez um trabalho lindo e original inspirado na cultura negra brasileira. A maioria das músicas é autoral, mas eles conseguem uma sonoridade enraizada e, ao mesmo tempo, sofisticada, porque os arranjos e as execuções são perfeitos. Quem nunca ouviu nem ouviu falar, certamente vai se impressionar com a qualidade e com a beleza da música dOs Tincoãs. O grupo era formado, inicialmente, por Erivaldo, Heraldo e Dadinho, todos de Cachoeira, Bahia. O nome – Tincoã – deriva de uma ave do cerrado. Primeiramente, o grupo interpretava boleros e outros tipo de canções, sem sucesso. Em 1963, saiu Erivaldo e entrou Mateus. O grupo renovou o repertório, mergulhando fundo nos terreiros de candomblé, rodas de capoeira, de samba, e tudo o que produzisse som com cores africanas. Em 1973, gravaram um disco antológico, com músicas lindas e arranjos primorosos, cujo lançamento teve grande impacto.  Em 1975, a morte de Heraldo foi um baque enorme para o grupo. Ele foi substituído por Morais e, depois, por Badu, que participa desse disco que posto para vocês. Ele é o último gravado no Brasil, porque, em 1983, o grupo foi para Angola, permanecendo por lá até sua dissolução, em 2000, com a morte de Dadinho. Esse disco é muito bonito. Reparem nos arranjos vocais, que perfeição! Dou destaque para Cordeiro de Nanã, composição de Dadinho. Tem também Enterro da Iyalorixá, de autoria de Antônio Carlos e Jocafi, que, segundo a fala que tem no meio dela, deve ter sido composta para homenagear Maria Bibiana do Espírito Santo, uma Iyalorixá baiana muito importante. O disco também tem uns sambas incríveis, como Arrasta a cadeira e Deixa a baiana sambar. Tá aí um trabalho que não pode ser esquecido.

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“Speaker-bangin’ before all else” (XLR8R) with “some of the smartest ears in the game” (Chicago Reader), “few can make a room explode like Maga Bo” (Flavorpill). A purveyor of “international sonic weaponry and rhythm knowledge” (Rough Trade), the Rio de Janeiro-based DJ/producer is a veteran pioneer of global bass music, with 20+ years of dedicated experience searching out unheralded music bumping from speaker-boxes in the world’s grittiest corners, from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar. 

Maga Bo’s sophisticated approach to international sounds comes from in-person, on-site collaboration with other artists. He has worked on location in Morocco, India, Ethiopia, Senegal, Zanzibar, and South Africa, to name just a few, while delving into a whirlwind of local styles: chaâbi, asmari music, taraab, manganiyar folk music, masqanda, and mbalax. All instruments and vocals come straight from the source. His original riddims and recordings, enriched by the presence of live vocalists and percussion, and enhanced by the philosophies of hip-hop and dub, take the global bass DJ set to a new level, one driven by first-hand experience searching open-air markets instead of just searching the web. 

His current work explores the contours of Afro-Brazilian culture and includes collaborations with the brightest talents in Brazil’s vast musical landscape. An immigrant himself, Maga Bo put down roots in his adopted hometown of Rio -- a cultural melting pot like no other where he has produced baile funk MCs and played drums in his neighborhood samba school. Journeys to Brazil’s northeast region have resulted in recording sessions with unsung folklore heroes Grupo Bongar and Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde. 

A globally in-demand performer, Maga Bo has graced stages from India to Ethiopia to Brazil, at major summer festivals across Europe, and on tour in North America and Australia. He has performed at WOMAD UK, WorldWide, Sydney Festival, WOMEX, Transmediale and Mundial. He’s collaborated with Buraka Som Sistema’s Kalaf, Max Normala aka Ninja of South African rap-rave outfit Die Antwood, Ethio-Jazz godfather Mulatu Astatke, Bollywood star Shilpa Rao, and Brazilian chart toppers BaianaSystem and BNegão, and released critically acclaimed remixes for Asian Dub Foundation, Batida, Bomba Estéreo, Poirier, Filastine, and Systema Solar. 

Maga Bo’s groundbreaking debut full-length album, Archipelagoes, was released on DJ /rupture's Soot Records in 2008 after recording sessions in Senegal, Tanzania, Morocco and South Africa with heavyweight local rappers and musicians. His second full-length, Quilombo do Futuro, landed at #1 on the iTunes Brazilian music chart and #1 on the Rhapsody world music album of the year. The album was lauded by the New York Times as “a cultural manifesto riding on rhythm” and by National Public Radio (NPR) as “defin[ing] a kind of virtual refuge for traditional culture, giving it a welcome place in the techy global music soundscape of the 21st century." 

His track, ”No Balanço da Canoa,” garnered over half a million views on Youtube and was featured in Grand Theft Auto V and the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He’s released music on Jarring Effects, Tru-Thoughts, Ninja Tune, Sound Way, ZZK, Cumbancha and many others. 

He currently releases confrontational, bass-heavy digital roots music from all over Brazil on Kaxambu Records and is an integrant of the live tropical-electro soundsystem band, Sociedade Recreativa. 

Having performed and worked in over 50 countries, Maga Bo walks the walk of the real globalization. Music is the weapon in a world of cultural appropriation, wide-spread poverty and mass migrations. 

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