Uma lufada de ar fresco na MPB. Parabéns.

Maybe You Could Visit Me

Zay Grastley is a Southern rock country rapper better known as the Gypsy, His style of music what he calls ( Southern Twang) will pull the whole family in.

GOTR - Zay Grastley

À leurs côtés (Christian Devienne)

'Sim Sim Sim' is the Latin Grammy award-winning debut album from Bala Desejo. A band who are at the forefront of Rio de Janeiro’s artistic renaissance, they channel influences of Brazilian 60s Tropicália, 70s psychedelia and MPB to create a nostalgic, yet joyfully, avant-garde sound.

The band is comprised of four distinct characters, each one an incredible talent in their own right and each with impressive credentials in the Brazilian Independent music scene. Central to the resurgent Rio de Janeiro musical community, the quartet of Dora Morelenbaum, Julia Mestre, Lucas Nunes and Zé Ibarra thrive in a group dynamic. They formed Bala Desejo to play collaboratively for a festival date in 2021, but when that show became a victim of pandemic shutdowns the idea for an album project materialised.

'Sim Sim Sim’, which translates into English as ‘Yes Yes Yes’, weaves through a fusion of genres, taking twists and turns as it progresses. There is Tropicália, MPB, rock, samba-canção soul-funk and reggae in the mix. It possesses many of the qualities of a classic album from Brazilian music’s golden era of the 60s and 70s, but also manages to sound very now, which is not an easy task to pull off. As solo musicians, they have worked and collaborated with Brazilian icons Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso and Milton Nascimento to name but a few. Bala Desejo feels like a natural extension of what came before, taking the baton from these luminaries, adding their unique spin and moving the sound forward.

When we first heard Bala Desejo, we were blown away. Their epic theatrical live shows leave audiences stunned and they are the band we had always been hoping to find. A modern-day Novos Baianos or Mutantes, but definitely not an imitation. They celebrate their influences, but are an innovative group, and consequently, they have created one of the finest records to come out of Brazil in recent years. A truly sensational debut!

SIM SIM SIM

Nesse Sofá

WALLS (KOL)

Blood Sweat & Tears

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08 - I'm Writing A Novel (Father John Misty cover) - Aaron Thomas & Django Rowe

Curating and ordering the tracks for a Mr Bongo Record Club is always special. You’re reminded of the feelings you had when sitting at home with a cassette player on pause trying to compile the perfect mixtape to impress the latest object of your affection, or that friend with whom you share a musical kinship and spark off each other’s latest discoveries. Hearing old tracks for the first time or diving into the most upfront selections keeps the fires burning and passions alight. 

Here, for volume six, we present recent finds and treasured classics from Brazil, Sweden, the USA, South Africa, Portugal, Japan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Canada. We have included selections by the Brazilian rising star Dora Morelenbaum as well as from heritage-Brazilian musicians and vocalists Haréton Salvanini, Copa 7, and Mirna. There’s also the wonderful Brazilian-not-Brazilian take of 'Ye Me Le' by Hazel Scott And The Braza Brasil, plus sublime gospel from the New York Community Choir. We’ve picked disco and soul rarities by General Lee and Ash Soul, Inc., and for the first time on vinyl, an incredible psych-pop song by the illustrious Matthew Tavares. There are cuts from some of our favourite contemporary Swedish musicians, Sven Wunder and Dina Ögon too. This compilation is packed full of gems that are plucked from differing times and spaces, but somehow all gel together beautifully. We hope you love them too. 

Artwork illustration by Nicolas Burrows.

5. Dina Ögon -Bakom Glaset

If I were a portrait
an abstract or found art...
would you try to change me
could you hear my voice
would you acknowledge my choice
and say I spiraled
I dipped
and somehow I got ripped
do you think you'd save me
O lord
is there a world in which I'd be the star
the centerpiece the attraction...
cause let me tell you how a renaissance extraction that ended in distraction, instead of history...
the inheritor of caption in immortal meme
yea babe
pollen falls from my frustration
a masterpiece
a remonstration
and O
I was a movement I was a field in Van Gogh's dreams
I was the Mona Lisa...
but no one favored me
so now I'm in the alley and I'm feeling down and apart and
If I were a portrait
an abstract or found art...
would you change me
tear out my voice
go against my choice
so I spiral...I dip
and somehow I am ripped
so will you save me
O oh o
will you save me

Immortal Meme

Jaya Gauranga by Ananda Vardhana das Andrew Freedman

Record label. Record shop. Film label. Since 1989.

Nesse Sofá

Mr Bongo

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