The ten piece band Bixiga 70 comes from Sao Paolo, Brazil, but the sounds the emit make you think more of Africa. The four piece horn section of Cuca Ferreira/bs, Douglas Antunes/tb, Daniel Nogueira/ts and Daniel Gralha/tp create Afro Funksounds along with the funky beat supplied by Decio 7/dr, Marcelo Dwoecki/b and Romulo Nardes-Gustavo Cek/perc on tunes like “Machada” and “Lembe.” Cris Scabello provides some surfing guitar work on “Ventania”, charges forward on the rapid fire “Martelo” and creates some effects on “Mil Vidas” and delivers some African guitar likes as the horns and Mauricio Fleury’s keyboards charge ahead on “Di Dancer.” Exciting stuff here from sounds of two continents for the price of one.
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