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Tribalistas

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Three of Brazil's most important artists of the past 10 years -- Marisa Monte, Carlinhos Brown and Arnaldo Antunes -- team up for this project -- a genre-blurring set of tracks that recalls similar efforts of the Tropicalismo generation, updated to reflect the styles of the three artists involved, with some nice complicated production touches from Monte herself, in particular. Highlights include "Carnavalia" (a five star song), "O Amor E Feio", "Passe Em Casa", and "Ja Sei Namorar." A wonderful recording.

As a listener of local music as I traveled through Brazilian, it was the Trabalistas's "Velha Infancia" that captured my attention from the first note when heard over the airwaves. The perfect blend of music and voice need no interpretation of language to know there meaning. Marisa Monte's clarity of voice and presentation in this one song is powerfully moving even in the sometimes hushed tones of the background. For this one song along the purchase of the CD is worth it, happily I can write that I was only to be rewarded song after song with originality and beauty. The compliment of male and female voice blended together throughout the album is amazingly arranged and meld together leaving the listener to realize that any other combination or change would be unthinkable.

Bravo Tribalistas