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Taken from his forthcoming album, Transformação E Cura, Alfredo Bello – known to you and me as DJ Tudo – furthers here his investigative forays into Brazilian folk culture with his ever-changing band, Sua Gente de Todo Lugar. The “people from everywhere” cook up a tumultuous mix of sounds, colours and genres that leaves you by the end feeling well and truly spent – in a joyful way. Like many other traditional songs in Afro-Brazilian culture, this deals with slavery and ever-present inequalities in Brazilian society. “Black people today are people too/They want to dance and be doctors…”, the lyrics proclaim. Recorded piecemeal between 2007 and 2019 all over the world, the song is rooted in the Congado drums of a festival popular in the state of Goiás. ....
There’s evidently an expatriate theme running through this month’s round-up. I’d guess that the two fraternal guitarists, Alejandro and Stephan Gutiérrez, are Mexican by origin [they are in fact Ecuadorian] and now based in Zurich, a city not known for its Latin American population (I would venture). The interplay of the two electric guitars creates a beautiful soundscape of a bygone Texas or Latin America: the wide open spaces that Harry Dean Stanton might have trudged, perhaps, to the accompaniment of Ry Cooder’s haunting guitar. La Cumbia Moderna de Soledad “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” / Machuca Cumbia “Stayin’ Alive” ....