Description
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Catalogue No.: GGLP021
Release Date: Jan 2023
Genre: Brazil
TRACKS
01 Cinco Doces
02 Princesa Do Mar
03 Ribeirao
04 Beco
05 Morte Na Bahia
06 Sete Vela
07 Aninha
08 Jardim Japao
09 General Geral
10 Elias
11 Capitao
12 Sou De Salvador
Originally released in 2012, the second album by the São Paulo-born composer Rodrigo Campos marks a turning point in both lyrical and aesthetic inspiration. “Bahia Fantástica” is the result of the absorption of a then recent influence of soul music (especially Curtis Mayfield) and is in the middle of this path marked by an unlikely geography in the lyrical part (São Mateus, Bahia, Japan) and by an expansion of sound ( from samba to the indefinable, with a passage through black American music).
The album turns ten years old in 2022 and exudes vitality. The soul reference takes on a different aroma when it passes through the filter of the composer and his band – formed by Kiko Dinucci on guitar, Marcelo Cabral on bass, Maurício Fleury on keyboards, Maurício Takara on drums and Thiago França on sax: it has Brazilian sauce, hints of afrobeat and a very particular seasoning. The lyrics bear the artist’s mark: they project scenes in the listener’s imagination and design the characters and environments with their own style of subjective chronicle. Bahia is both imaginary and intimate in Rodrigo Campos’s music.
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