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10/24/2012

Brasileira Camerata - Noves Fora (2007)




8.8

/World music, Improvised music, Experimentalism, Choro, Mood music, Electronic pop, Crossover/

Comment: there is another album from Brazil to be commented today. This bundle is an exciting appearance of carnival-tinged rhythms and circumspect progressions over the course of 7 tracks. More concretely, choro, a basic style originating from Brazil is more and less moderately mixed up with jazz-y elements, ethnic/World Music elements, brass-y fringes, some New Age-y and bossa nova whiffs and ethereal keyboard chords and programmed beats (in Tumaraca remix), i.e made up in an improvised way. However, contemplative moments are varied with more impulsive and careless times, thereby outbalancing the album as a whole emotionally. In a nutshell, it is an enjoyable listening session for sure.