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Beija Flors Velho E Sujo

by São Paulo Underground

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Beija Flors Velho E Sujo is the fourth release by São Paulo Underground. The group is an electronica-laced Tropicalia funhouse, a secret passage between Chicago’s volatile avant garde jazz scene and Brazil’s teeming creative capital.

Featuring Chicago maestro Rob Mazurek on cornet, harmonium and various effects, and São Paulo’s Guilherme Granado on keyboards, synths, sampler and vocals, and Mauricio Takara on percussion, cavaquinho and electronics, São Paulo Underground delivers its fourth revelatory album Beija Flors Velho E Sujo.

In its latest incarnation, SPU is a power trio and a post-modern orchestra rolled into one, marked by glistening sonic textures, seductive eletronica beats, unabashedly beautiful melodies, an expansive improvisational palette and fiercely gleeful interplay. A potent program of new material honed during a 2012 North American tour, “Beija Flors” captures an ensemble hitting a fierce creative stride. Ecstatic, roiling and utterly unpredictable, the music flows from three distinct musical personalities united by “the idea of infinite love, the idea of breaking through to the other side through sonic power and beauty,” says Mazurek, a veteran disrupter of genre conventions.

Rather than stretching out for extended improvisational flights, the trio delivers a series of brief blasts, each brimming with musical incident.
Dauntless sonic explorers, SPU continues a relentless search into the mysteries of sound. “Sound has such potential, and needs to be split, cracked, slammed, caressed, kissed, sunk, buried, catapulted into new dimensions in order to begin a dialogue of the universes,” Mazurek observes."

credits

released June 4, 2013

Mauricio Takara - Percussion, Cavaquinho, Electronics
Guilherme Granado - Keyboards, Synths, Sampler, Voice
Rob Mazurek - Cornet, Evolver, Ring Modulator, Analog Delay, Harmonium

Recorded by Greg Norman at Electrical Audio, B Room, Chicago, IL, September 26-27, 2012.
Mixed by Greg, Mauricio, Guilherme, and Rob, October 1-2, 2012.
Mastered by Shelly Steffens at Chicago Mastering.

Design by Sheila Sachs.
Art by Damon Locks.
Photos by Jason Marck

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