'MetaL MetaL' is 'Metá Metá's' sophomore album and debut for Mais Um Discos.

The album will be released 10th April 2014 (24th March in France) on CD/LP/DL and is available from:

Mais Um (Bandcamp): bit.ly/1dKzCNT
Itunes: smarturl.it/7uz7ei
Amazon: amzn.to/1dKA7Yx

Over a squalling mess of improvised guitar and sax, a twisted, almost broken female vocal cries out to Exu, the gatekeeper of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. This is the ‘Afro-punk’ sound of Metá Metá - Vocalist Juçara Marçal, saxophonist Thiago França and guitarist Kiko Dinucci – a trio of Sao Paulo’s most sought after musicians, struggling to survive the 21st century sonic schizophrenia of their home city Sao Paulo.

Metá Metá’s sophomore album and debut for Mais Um Discos MetaL MetaL launches itself from the ancient chants of the orixás into a dirty brew of psychedelic samba, distorted jazz and Afro-punk. The band are all followers of candomblé yet Thiago is eager to point out that they are not using the orixás to preach certain beliefs but to provide a framework within which they tell their stories.

On MetaL MetaL they mix these spiritual and rhythmic foundations with influences ranging from Afrobeat to Afrosambas, punk rock to be-bop to create chaotic, life-affirming music that explodes with the rage of The Stooges and Sonic Youth, the spirituality of John Coltrane and Sun Ra and the wild, avant-garde instrumentation of contemporary experimental-psychedelic outfits such as Melt Yourself Down and Goat.

All the band members are integral cogs of the São Paulo arts scene; Thiago with his improv-led trio, MarginalS and African rooted solo outfit, Sambanzo was also in Criolo’s touring band for two years. It was during his stint with Criolo that he met Tony Allen, which led to the two collaborations with him on the album. Juçara is a member of a cappella group (Vesper Vocal), experimental theatre company (Companhia Coral) and professor of singing at Sao Paulo’s University Anhembi Morumbi. Kiko plays with Passo Torto a ‘samba string quartet’ and is a widely respected visual artist - he created the wood carving for the MetaL MetaL logo.

INFO: http://www.maisumdiscos.com/meta-meta/

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Metá Metá - Man Feriman

do disco "Encarnado" (2014)

Juçara Marçal: voz
Kiko Dinucci: guitarra
Rodrigo Campos: cavaquinho

VELHO AMARELO (Rodrigo Campos)

Não diga que estamos morrendo
Hoje não
Pois tenho essa chaga comendo a razão

Um velho amarelo
Com três guerras no peito
Mirando o parabelo diz assim: 
Vai
Menina dos meus olhos
Penetre entre os olhos
Não há piedade
É só o fim 
Vai!

Quero morrer num dia breve
Quero morrer num dia azul
Quero morrer na América do Sul

Velho Amarelo

Taken from BANZEIRO available on LP /CD /DL via: https://donaonete.bandcamp.com/album/banzeiro & STREAMING

‘Remarkable… an engagingly commanding and feisty singer’ The Guardian

Dona Onete - ‘the grande dame of Amazonian song’ - returns with further tales from the river Amazon on her sophomore album Banzeiro.

Whether she’s championing gay rights, singing about the delights of indecent proposals or praising a former lover for his ‘crazy ways of making love’, Banzeiro is defined by Onete’s honest reflections on life, love, sex as well as her delight in the everyday pleasures of life in the Amazon, whether that’s spicy seasoning, salty kisses or fishy-smelling water.

Formerly a history teacher, folklore researcher, union representative, culture secretary and children’s author - “I never thought I would be a singer” she claims - Onete recorded her debut album Feitiço Caboclo at 73. A cult figure in Brazil and an ambassador for Amazonian culture, the music she sings is a unique mix of rhythms from native Brazilians, African slaves and the Caribbean - epitomised in the joyous carimbós that are her trademark.

Born in the Amazonian region of Pará in 1938, Onete is a mix of native Indian from her mother’s side and African from her father. She first started to sing after a chance riverside encounter: “I was washing clothes by the river and one day I saw a dolphin and sung for him. The next day I sang again, and two dolphins came, then a whole family!”.

A self-proclaimed “teenage-dreamer” who embraced music “because everything was forbidden by my parents”, by the age of 15 Onete was singing in bars, yet her musical ambitions were soon crushed: “I was married at 22 and when I tried to sing at home my husband didn’t like it so I had to stop”.

She became an ardent researcher of the rhythms, dances and traditions of the Amazon’s indigenous and black people, which inspired her to begin composing songs herself. Unable to sing at home, she began to incorporate her compositions in her work as a history teacher.

In the early eighties Onete quit teaching to campaign for workers’ rights and following retirement in 1990 she became a local Municipal Secretary of Culture. In the early 2000s Onete’s second husband encouraged her musical side and it was whilst singing at a friend’s party in 2006 that she was overheard by a local band. She joined them and soon became a local celebrity known for her risque lyrics. A debut album, Feitiço Caboclo, soon followed and her contemporary take on the music of Para was a critical success with Onete touring Brazil playing to crowds of thousands: “Traditional carimbo songs are about nature and tradition - I modernised it by singing about love and sex and taking influence from samba and pagode”.

International critics were next to fall for this sassy, saucy and sexy septuagenarian with Les Inrocks making the album one of their top 5 ‘world’ releases that year. European festival performances followed in 2015 - including a main stage spot at Womad UK - with a US tour taking in Chicago, Cleveland, and New York in September 2016. “Sometimes, when you think you’ve given all you’ve got, you realise that, in fact, you have a lot more ahead of you”, she opines.

Banzeiro is the wave that’s created as boats pass through the water and with it’s pulsating saxophone riff, insistent guitar line, thundering percussion and Onete’s charged lyrics the album title track, a banguê – raucous high-octane ‘Amazonian ska’ – is a musical tsunami. Onete is at her most potent on Na Linha do Arco Iris (The Line of the Rainbow), a rallying cry of support for her LGBT fans: “come out of the wardrobe, cross the line of the rainbow and be who you want to be”. Faceira and No Meio do Pitiú are joyous carimbós with the latter surely the only song to recount the charms of Pitiú - the fishy-smelling water that floods Belém’s legendary fish-market Ver-o-Peso as the ice defrosts.

DONA ONETE No Meio Do Pitiú

Terceiro trabalho instrumental solo de Pio Lobato. 
Tecnoguitarrada (2007) foi gravado nos mesmo moldes do primeiro Café (2001) seguindo o conceito home studio ou produzindo tudo em casa, desde estudos, gravações e mixagens .

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released June 1, 2007

Gravado, produzido e mixado por Pio Lobato em Home Sessions (Cidade Velha, Belém/PA), entre junho e dezembro de 2007. 

Pio Lobato - guitarras, efeitos, baixos e bases eletrônicas 

Arte: Ná Figueredo

Tecnoguitarrada

Cultura do Pará

Pio Lobato, guitarrista e produtor, é um dos principais responsáveis pelo reconhecimento da “guitarrada” no cenário nacional. Natural de Belém, iniciou seu  trabalho como músico no início dos anos 1990, construiu, tanto com projetos solo como com o grupo Cravo Carbono, um dos mais respeitados trabalhos de experimentação pop e releitura musical brasileiros. Em 2003 criou e produziu grupo “Mestres da Guitarrada” que estabeleceu uma nova visão do gênero no país. Em 2015 lançou seu novo trabalho intitulado “Pio Lobato”.

Cultura do Pará

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