★Aesthetics
Sauna: Um, Dois, Tres
Sao Paulo Underground: Rob Mazurek (cornet, electronics); Mauricio Takara (percussion, electronics). The title track is a cacophonous affair with Takara's rolling drums zigzagging through a dense undergrowth of sound, with electronics, gritty laptop interjections and guitar all meshing together.
The Principles of Intrusive Relationships
With this album, Brazils Tropicalia has launched full throttle into the new millennium, where melody metamorphoses into a new medium of expression. The planetary dragons have breathed new life into their free smaba, thus creating a juxtaposition of texture, rhythm and psychedelia. Drums and horns collide at a new crossroads, and this newly created beast decided never to look back. To describe the music the quartet of Rob Mazurek, Mauricio Takara, Guilherme Granado, and Richard 'Hollywood' Ribeir…