Bixiga 70 - Quebra Cabeça (Glitterbeat Records)
LP / CD / DL
Out Now
Review by Mikey.
Sao Paulo’s acclaimed 10 piece instrumental group return with
their fourth album.
I very much doubt that you will find a funkier album than
this. A simple walk to the shop while listening to the opening track Quebra
Cabeça leaves you under the impression that you are an undercover agent in a
sixties spy film. Be careful, I think there is a hidden camera in that pie....
Bixiga 70 have decided to take us on a sumptuous journey
through the streets of São Paulo with their 4th album. There is a
beautiful and hypnotic pace to the collection. It weaves between influences as
if you were playing chase with the band members through the streets of their
neighbourhood of Bixiga. They articulately and effortlessly drift through the
streets, shifting from jazz to dub, reggae to highlife. The heart and
infectious beats are deeply African but the dark pulse and vibrant urgency that
is present at every step is all Brazilian. It will leave you intoxicated and
wondering what else you should have been doing before you lost yourself to the
groove that is Bixiga 70.
If Ladeira is the track to take you on a festival romp
through their talents, Premeiramente is a strutting 7ft giant walking through
the narrow lanes, blocking out the old with a wall of bold bruising brass and
frying all in its path with squidgy, mind melting electronica.
If you are lucky enough to secure a ticket to the gig at
the Jazz Café in London on October 23rd then you will be treated to
a night with one of the most sensational bands to emerge from Latin America
this century.
If you need an album in your collection to dance yourself
bad to, this is it.
Published on Louder Than War 12/10/18 - here.
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