VA. - Folk Poetry Song & Rhythm In Northeastern Brazil (Death Is Not The End | DEATH 077)

VA. - Folk Poetry Song & Rhythm In Northeastern Brazil (Death Is Not The End | DEATH 077) Nota do editor: Our survey of folk music traditions in Northeastern Brazil, originally broadcast on NTS Radio in 2019, becomes the latest to be committed to cassette as part of our 10th-anniversary series. It specifically focuses on the spur-of-the-moment improvised "dueling" poetry of the repente, embolada & aboio styles unique to the Nordeste region. "it’s not hard to hear traces of fado from Portugal, knit with West and Central African rhythms derived from or paralleling calypso, and shuffling around the square roots of what would feed forward into dancehall-reggaeton’s dembow heartbeat and Brazil’s modern baile styles" (Boomkat, 2024).  DEATH 077  was released on May 13, 2024. Another outstanding volume by Death Is Not The End. Recommended! Download it for free on Bandcamp (via name your price).