The Portuguese-born, Brasilian-bred and Macedonia-based Amália Baraona sounds like no other chanteuse who sings in Portuguese today. There are, however,...
The West Coast of the United States has had a rather long – and celebrated – association with the music of Brasil. Rique Pantoja is tapping...
Where Next? The title of this disc seems to ask an existential question that many musicians might ask themselves. But do not be under the impression...
As in football, so also in music, Brasil’s cup runneth over. So great is the outflow in fact that both have reached the furthest corners of...
For the Brasilian singer Guai – not nearly as known as she deserves to be – to take this repertoire – none of which she has...
Featured photo of Antonio Adolfo by Paul Constantinides Antonio Carlos Jobim may be one of the most revered Brasilian musicians in recent memory and few musicians...
It doesn’t take much any longer – not after Jurassic Park – to imagine how amber could be a miraculous, almost living crucible of life on...
When you are so perfectly attuned to your ancestry and your culture as Felipe Salles is, then you are halfway to producing the most perfect interpretation...
For the carioca, Sergio Pereira, playing on the Portuguese word “Nu” as the title of his album Nu Brasil and then following it up with a...
You would be forgiven if you thought you were listening to a Brasilian while playing Next Stop Brazil by Phil Marucci. The Portuguese is near perfect...
Idolising its heroes is nothing new in a country like Brasil that has been blessed seemingly with more of them than those in almost any country...
While you will never hear the enormous struggle of the musicians of Trio Ciclos’ impulses to break free of some of the more binding shackles of...
Listening to Varanda by The Reunion Project, I am struck by how they make of music a living, breathing being, drinking in its heady notes as...
Three things occupy the mind of Roger Davidson: spirituality, the romance of music, and Brasil. This might not necessarily be in that order but certainly Oração...
The Brasilian mandolinist Danilo Brito has shown himself to be a musician and composer of considerable talent. This, self-titled album is further evidence of his immense...
