Marku Ribas was an artist whose work deserved much more attention than it got. Throughout his career, he gave his public the gift and joy of risk taking creativity. The multi-talented and free spirited Ribas, was the artist who officiated the “polirritmia”, a technique of producing sounds with his own body. His performances were […]
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Singing Sadness Away: The “Meninas de Sinha”
March 6, 2013 
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The “Meninas de Sinha” is a singing group formed by working class afro-descendent women. They are from the Aglomerado Vera Cruz, a favela in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais. Their age group ranges from 50 to 93. The “Meninas de Sinha” was founded by Valdete da Silva Cordeiro […]
Continue reading Unpredictable weather with the band “Previsão do Tempo”
February 17, 2013 1 Comment
One of the joys of writing about independent music is to find bands that are not following any of the industry’s old formulas. They are there together doing music for the sake of doing music and that’s their motivation. Invariably, their work is full of originality. One of these bands is the ” Previsão do Tempo”, […]
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