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4.0 out of 5 stars
What's old is new, January 26, 2004
This review is from: Hunger Gives You a Headache (Audio CD)
This is a great place to start (or end up) for anyone interested in Brazilian music of the Northeastern state of Pernambuco. What we are talking about with this release is Forró music. And you'll find a lot of that on this CD, in it's raw and urgent, danceable accordion driven form. Cascabulho, however, is not simply a folk project. The members of Cascabulho identify themselves with the Recife youth culture movement Mangue Beat , whose late king Chico Science is still revered. Picking up where the tropicalistas a generation before them left off, Mangue Beat is a mix of modern and traditional with any source ripe for inclusion, incorporating the rich traditional musics of Brazil, in this case Forró, Coco, Maracatu, and Samba, with rock, funk, and Jazz.
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