Maga Bo - Amor (É Revolução) [CD]

Kaxambu Records

£9.90

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: KAX015CD
Barcode: 5050580763340
Release Date: 27 May 2022
Genre: World/Reggae/Brazil

01: Axé para o Bará (feat. Mestre Antonio Carlos de Xangô)
02: Cadê Zé (feat. Rosângela Macedo)
03: Labuta (feat. Russo Passapusso & Roberto Barreto)
04: Amor (É Revolução) [feat. Dandara Manoela & Bnegão]
05: Recado de Vovô (feat. Rosângela Macedo)
06: Ilu de Oyá (feat. Alexandre Garnizé)
07: Sapateado de Catita (feat. Felipe Cordeiro)
08: Na Contenção de Jah (feat. Jeru Banto)
09: Congo Rei (feat. Jota 3)
10: Recanto II (feat. Isaar)
11: Axé para o Bará (Berraboi feat. Lucas Dan Remix) [feat. Mestre Antonio Carlos de Xangô & Lucas Dan]0
12: Cadê Zé (Nirso Remix) [feat. Rosângela Macedo]
13: Amor (É Revolução) [Subatomic Sound System Remix] [feat. Dandara Manoela & Bnegão]
14: Labuta (Lucio K Remix) [feat. Russo Passapusso & Roberto Barreto]
15: Ilu de Oyá (Dengue Dengue Dengue Congobow Remix) [feat. Alexandre Garnizé]
16: Recado de Vovô (Psilosamples Remix) [feat. Rosângela Macedo]
17: Sapateado de Catita (DJ Tide Remix) [feat. Felipe Cordeiro]
18: Na Contenção de Jah (Buguinha Adubada Remix) [feat. Jeru Banto]
19: Congo Rei (Victor Rice Remix) [feat. Jota 3]
20: Recanto II (Chico Correa feat. Roberto Barreto and Lucas Dan Remix) [feat. Isaar, Roberto Barreto & Lucas Dan]
21: Labuta (DJ Dolores Frevo Remix) [feat. Russo Passapusso & Roberto Barreto]

"Speaker-bangin' before all else" (XLR8R) with "some of the smartest ears in the game" (Chicago Reader), "few can make a room explode like Maga Bo" (Flavorpill). A purveyor of "international sonic weaponry and rhythm knowledge" (Rough Trade), the Rio de Janeiro-based DJ/producer is a veteran pioneer of global bass music, with 20+ years of dedicated experience searching out unheralded music bumping from speaker-boxes in the world's grittiest corners, from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar.

Simultaneously, Amor (É Revolução), the new album from Maga Bo, is statement of hope through change, a call to arms, a lament, a proclamation of resistance, a shout of resilience, an exuberant yell and a deep therapeutic groove all at once. The result of a multi-decade search for rhythmic common denominators with an Afro-Brazilian-centric focus. It joins raw, natural, acoustic timbres and textures with the grit, weight and power of modern electronic production. It is where heavy dub bass pulsations sync with rhythms coaxed from drums heated over an open flame and ancestral voices rise and fall in call and response.

Recorded in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Recife, Arcoverde and Porto Alegre, the album counts amongst many illustrious talents from the Brazlian music scene, long time collaborators, Russo Passapusso and Roberto Barreto of Baianasystem, the legendary singer, BNegão and São Paulo based, Rosângela Macedo. Grupo Bongar and Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde provide backing percussion and vocals. It also brings newer collaborators, from Recife, the amazing voice of Isaar, the fabulous guitarist, Felipe Cordeiro, as well as long-time friends, ex-Digitaldubs, Jeru Banto and Jota 3, the Mestre of Tambors de Olokun, Alexandre Garnizé, on percussion, fellow nomadic electronic roots explorer, Teleseen and the rock solid percussionist from Salvador, Icaro Sá.

“a cultural manifesto riding on rhythm. Make that rhythms….Atop them — rapping, chanting and singing their own lyrics — are voices that can keep pace with the syncopations or sail above them. In Portuguese and occasionally English, Maga Bo’s collaborators often praise culture as survival mechanism and resistance tactic, while the beats constantly prove them right.”
New York Times —

“Maga Bo defines a kind of virtual refuge for traditional culture, giving it a welcome place in the techy global music soundscape of the 21st century”
NPR — All Things Considered

“some of the smartest ears in the gam”
Chicago Reader —

“few can make a room explode like Maga Bo”
Flavorpill —

“international sonic weaponry and rhythm knowledge”
Rough Trade —

“Producer Maga Bo is an Alt.Latino favorite”
NPR alt.latino —

“World-wide lovers of tropical bass and Afro-Brazilian percussion will certainly go bananas.....a global perspective and crossover appeal beyond its niche”
Remezcla —

“This is sound system culture taken on a history lesson. It's also where the hand-wrought rhythms of the past get a sniff of the future.”
WOMAD UK — Nige Tassell

“Speaker-bangin’ before all else”
XLR8R —

“This music gets in your face, runs roughshod over your inhibitions, and moves your ass.”
The Stranger —