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...
Among all of the musical idioms of the world Brasilian music must be one of the most seductive; the most attracting of musicians no matter what...
To the untrained ear, most frevos may sound the same—fast-paced, played at breakneck speed almost, music rising and falling in waves crashing upon invisible beaches under...
It is easy to fall in love with the Ricardo Silveira: Organ tRio. Blame that all on Vanessa Rodrigues. The organist plays softly and her undulating...
The same rich ethnic cocktail that formed Brazilian society, from African, European and native ingredients, underlies its native genius for music. It also makes the country...
Hendrik Meurkens has a knack for coining words. It is almost as if he sees the word as part of a lyrical line which he composes...
