EDSON NATALE - NINA MAIKA

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: ND008
Barcode: 3481575482038
Release Date: Jan 2022
Genre: Brazil / World Music

TRACKS
Viajante
Guiambe
Toque De Fada
Nina Maika
Alfacinha
Pequena Cancao Para Uma Mulher Nua
Perseguindo O Por Do Sol
Agora E Na Hora Da Morte
Par De Asas

Originally self-released in 1990 and lovingly redone by our sister label New Dawn, Edson Natale’s ‘Nina Maika’ is one of the most beautiful reissues to come out this year - if we may say so ourselves.

After touring and playing with his jazz group Dharana for years during the late eighties the self-taught guitarist decided to do things differently on the first album under his own name, inspired by the spirit of Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges’ groundbreaking Clube Da Esquina, now having arrived in a decidedly post-MPB era.

Enlisting the help of Serbian expat and electronic music pioneer Mitar ‘Suba’ Subotić (Rex Ilusivii) and some of Brazil’s finest players including former Dharana collaborators Alex Braga, André Geraissati and Toninho Horta the São Paulo native started weaving his dream at the turn of the decade - the singular masterpiece that is ‘Nina Maika’.

Combining traditional acoustic Brazilian styles and atmospheric ambient electronics ‘Nina Maika’ gently floats somewhere between the guitar-based folk and bossa traditions that blossomed in the sixties and seventies and new era esoteric music with Fourth World- and minimalist undertones, all the while maintaining a strong yet subtle pop sensibility. It’s a sound that turned out to be a match made in electro-acoustic heaven - if heaven could ever be like this. (Rogier) ⁣