Outro Tempo I & II - Electronic & Contemporary Music From Brazil
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Two albums (both 2xLPs). Both are new and sealed. Some corner wear. Please see photos for details.
For their first multi-artist compilation, Music From Memory take us on a trip to the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1978-1992 is a double LP that explores the outer reaches of Brazilian music, where indigenous rhythms mix with synthesizers and where MPB mingles with drum computers. As Brazil faced the last years of its military dictatorship and transition to democracy, a generation of forward-thinking musicians developed an alternative vision of Brazilian music and culture. They embraced traditionally shunned electronic production methods and infused their music with elements of ambient, jazz-fusion, and minimalism. At the same time they referenced the musical forms and spirituality of indigenous tribes from the Amazon. The music they produced was a complex and mesmerising tapestry that vividly evoked Brazilian landscapes and simultaneously reached out to the world beyond its borders.
The product of extensive research, this compilation is a unique introduction to this visionary music and features many fresh discoveries in a country well trodden by record diggers. It gathers tracks from obscure albums that have for too long been neglected by even the most avid collectors of Brazilian music. It includes now highly sought after music by Andréa Daltro, Maria Rita, and Fernando Falcão, as well as unknown gems like those of Cinema, Carlinhos Santos, and Anno Luz. This is an essential release that reveals a broader spectrum of Brazilian music, striking a unique sonic signature that is full of innovation, experimentation, and beauty.
Music From Memory has shared details of Outro Tempo II: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1984-1996.
The previously teased compilation documents a wave of experimentalism that emerged in post-dictatorship Brazil, moving the timeframe up a few years from the first collection, which spanned 1978 to 1992. By this time, the Brazilian popular music (MPB) movement had “lost its ability to articulate the social consciousness of the era,” writes Outro Tempo curator John Gomez, in the album’s liner notes. “The music that had once been a vital voice of dissent became the polite face of the new democratic movement.”
Out of this sense of alienation emerged “an effervescent period of cultural production,” he continues, that involved “alternative performance spaces, DIY modes of production and collaborations with the art world.” Stylistically, this body of work spans a wide breadth of synth-pop, ambient, art rock and experimental electronics, “drifting away from the rainforest and into the pulsating heart of Brazil’s immense and overpowering cities.” Priscilla Ermel is the only holdover from the first Outro Tempo compilation, with volume two focusing on musicians that thrived in São Paulo’s gallery scene, including Dequinha E Zaba and Fausto Fawcett.
Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil, 1984-1996 also includes several tracks touched by Mitar Subotic, AKA Suba. Suba, the late Yugoslavian producer whose visionary music has recently surfaced on Offen Music and Versatile Records, relocated to São Paulo in 1990, and his arrival “marked a turning point in Brazilian electronic music,” Gomez writes. On Outro Tempo II, Edson Natale covers a Bosnian song called “Nina Maika,” which Suba, his frequent collaborator, introduced to him . A track from Angel’s Breath, a group featuring Suba, Milan Mladenovic? and Joa?o Parahyba, also appears on the 20-track collection.
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