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Amor (É Revolução)

Recanto II Feat. Isaar (Chico Correa Remix Feat. Roberto Barreto And Lucas Dan)

Congo Rei Feat. Jota 3 (Victor Rice Remix)

Na Contenção Feat. Jeru Banto (Buguinha Adubada Remix)

Recado De Vovô (Psilosamples Remix)

Sapateado De Catita (DJ Tide Remix)

Ilú De Oyá Feat. Alexandre Garnizé (Dengue Dengue Dengue Remix)

Labuta (Lucio K Remix)

Amor (É Revolução) Feat. Dandara Manoela And BNegão (Subatomic Sound System Remix)

Axé Para O Bará Feat. Mestre Antonio Carlos De Xangô (Berraboi Remix Feat. Lucas Dan)

Cadê Zé Feat. Rosângela Macedo (Nirso Remix)

Recanto II Feat. Isaar

Congo Rei Feat. Jota 3

Na Contenção Feat. Jeru Banto

Sapateado De Catita Feat. Felipe Cordeiro

Ilú De Oyá Feat. Alexandre Garnizé

Recado De Vovô Feat. Rosângela Macedo

Taken from new album Amor (É Revolução) set for release 27th May on Vinyl, CD & Digital

Check out the accompanying video clip here:  https://youtu.be/bagV62SzBx8

Pioneer of the global bass movement, producer, percussionist and DJ, Maga Bo returns with Amor (É Revolução), his first solo album in 10 years, furthering his on-going exploration of Afro Brazilian music, set for release on his own label Kaxambu Records on May 27th. The debut track Axé para o Bará, a collaboration with  the late candomblé priest, Mestre Antonio Carlos de Xangô, is released today.
 
Internationally renowned for his production work on labels like Ninja Tunes, Tru Thoughts, ZZK and Soundway, Maga Bo has long been blowing the bass bins with his global mesh of digital roots music. On Amor (É Revolução) it's to Brazil - where the US-born/naturalized Brazilian has been residing since the late 1990's - the energy is channeled, on a powerful homage to the country's and his own, rich and spiritual connection to the drum.
 
Collaborating with a veritable cast of singers, musicians and percussionists, contemporary and traditional, from north and south, Maga Bo reconnects with some of his peers he worked with on his 2012 Quilombo Do Futuro record; artists like Russo Passapusso and Roberto Barreto from BaianaSystem (Salvador), singer Rosângela Macedo (São Paulo) and rapper Bnegão from Planet Hemp (Rio De Janeiro). He forges new connections with key names in Brazil's contemporary scenes like Felipe Cordeiro (Belém) and Jeru Banto (Rio de Janeiro), and introduces to the world to some percussion and Afro Brazilian musical purveyors like Mestre Antonio Carlos de Xangô (Porte Alegre).
 
The debut track Axé Para o Bará features the late singer Mestre Antonio Carlos de Xangô, a male priest of the Candomblé religion known in Brazil as a 'pai-de-santo'. The songs features am incessant, galloping rhythm section, a chorus of female call and response vocals answering the Mestre’s prayer and all joined together with Maga Bo’s trademark electronic production, retaining the natural essence and spirt of the music. 
 
Amor (É Revolução) has taken Maga Bo years to complete, with multiple visits to studios, dwellings and temples across Brazil, always with his digital backpack, a modest recording set up, ready to record. 
 
In recent years Maga Bo has been busy touring the world as a DJ, remixing artists like Mulatu Astatke, Bomba Stereo, Asian Dub Foundation and BaianaSystem and is currently in the production stage of a new album with his project in collaboration with artist João Selva and dancer Tereza Azevedo,  Sociedade Recreativa (Jarring Effects).

Amor (É Revolução) Feat. Dandara Manoela And BNegão

Labuta Feat. Russo Passapusso And Roberto Barrreto

Mestre Antonio Carlos de Xangô - vocals.  Dih Neques - percussion.   Gloria de Iemanja da Xambá, Gizelda Maria de Xangô, Celia do Coco (Filha de Seu Manoel do Coco), Negra Dany - backing vocals.  

Recorded in Rio de Janeiro, Olinda and Porto Alegre. Vinyl mastered and cut by Frank Merit at The Carvery London, digital master by Krishnin at Blissonance, Paris, France. Graphic design by Senegambia. Models - Renata Batista & Luang Senegambia. 

À memória de Mestre Antonio Carlos de Xangô

Letras/Lyrics - Yoruba/Português/English

EXÚ O LODÊ (Dono da rua, Exu) -  Exú (spiritual entity, from the street, from outside)
EXÚ EXÚ O BARÁ LANÃ (Dono do caminho, rei do corpo, Exu) -  Exú (spiritual entity which belongs to the path)
6X

AMODIBAU EXÚ
BARÁ
LANÃ EXÚ 
BARÁ
EXÚ ADAGUE
BARÁ
EXÚ AGELÚ
BARÁ 
Mojúbà Èsù! (Reverencio ao Exu)
BARÁ  

Èsù abánà bánà Èsù abánàiyé - (Exu encontramos no caminho, surpreende no caminho, Exu encontramos nos caminhos do mundo) - Exu finds the way, surprises on the way, Exu finds the ways of the world
Èsù abánà bánà Èsù abánàiyé - (Exu encontramos no caminho, surpreende no caminho, Exu encontramos nos caminhos do mundo)- Exu finds the way, surprises on the way, Exu finds the ways of the world
2X

EUADEMI CHECHEMI - (Aos outros sempre fazemos uma estátua, ele é reverenciado, Exu encontramos no caminho criando) - To the others we always make a statue, We  meet Exu on the way while creating
EUADEMI CHECHEMIRÊ - (Aos outros sempre fazemos uma estátua, ele é reverenciado, Exu encontramos no caminho criando) - To the others we always make a statue, We  meet Exu on the way while creating
3X

EXÚ DA LANA FUÁ (Oh! Exu, abre o caminho me limpando, oh! Bará abre o caminho para os Orixás) - Oh, Exu, open the way while cleaning me, oh, Bará, open the path to the orixás
EXÚ DA LANA FUMALÉ - (Oh! Exu, abre o caminho me limpando, oh! Exu abre o caminho para os Orixás) - Oh, Exu, open the way while cleaning me, oh, Bará, open the path to the orixás
3X

E BARÁ EXÚ DEMÍ - (Exu cria abertura de caminho, faz a viagem que nós fazemos a oferenda) - Exu creates an opening in the way, makes the trip and we make an offering
EXÚ DEMÍ EXÚ DEMÍ LANÃ (Exu cria a abertura de caminho para a oferenda) - Exu creates an opening in the way for the offering
8X

Axé para o Bará Featuring Mestre Antonio Carlos De Xangô

Cadê Zé Feat. Rosângela Macedo

“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. 

Maga Bo bookings - booking*at*magabo.com

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