Roberto Bertrami News Today

A founding member of the Brazilian jazz-funk trio, Conti also released several solo albums, and, with Madlib, the collaborative LP Sujinho

It’s curious that two separate German labels should release two albums by Brazilian singers on the same day, seemingly quite independently of each other. “Curiouser and curiouser” that the two singers in question – the illustrious Flora Purim and the lesser known Maria de Fátima, both of them married to celebrated musicians – should be... <a class="view-article" href="https://soundsandcolours.com/subjects/music/the-girls-from-brazil-maria-de-fatima-flora-...

There’s evidently an expatriate theme running through this month’s round-up. I’d guess that the two fraternal guitarists, Alejandro and Stephan Gutiérrez, are Mexican by origin [they are in fact Ecuadorian] and now based in Zurich, a city not known for its Latin American population (I would venture). The interplay of the two electric guitars creates a beautiful soundscape of a bygone Texas or Latin America: the wide open spaces that Harry Dean Stanton might have trudged, perhaps, to the ...