Album produced by Rocinante arrived in the public on Wednesday (January 29) in vinyl and the main streaming platforms
Losetthe new album of Thiago Amudarrived in the public this Wednesday (January 29). With a vinyl launch and also on the main streaming platforms, the album marks the beginning of the label’s activities Racinant in 2025.
In Losetthe artist proposes a walk through different ways to create Brazilian music, with touches of frevo and rock, also undergoing rhythms of candomblé. This trip has the illustrious participation of Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso.
On the eve of Carnival, the album’s open-open was the single “January Bay”a samba plot released on the 15th.
In an interview with Rolling Stone Brazil, Thiago Amud explained how the track connects with the album:
The title I chose for the album is in this letter, which is full of mentions to places and facts in the history of the river – a city to which I was coming back after three years in Belo Horizonte. All this made “January Bay” The unavoidable open-open. People have written me, it seems to be enjoying it. Many realize that to write it there has been research, there was work. ”
The chosen track to open Loset It was written especially for “The Whale”audiovisual work still unpublished Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande.
The music video accompanying the single was conceived by the musician and artistic coordinator of Rocinante, Jhêtogether with the cameraman Luca Narracci. In it, Thiago and Luca They dance in the Marquis of Sapucaí empty under the 40 degrees of Rio de Janeiro.
“Filming, I thought all the time at Glauber Rocha of ‘The Age of the Earth’,” comments the artist.
While dialogues with the tradition of Brazilian rhythms, Thiago prints your own sound and poetic identity. An example is frevo “Possessa City”which celebrates the life force of the carnival. The track has the participation of Chico Buarquewhose legendary voice lends an emotional load that connects the tradition and avant -garde of our music. Own Chico He highlighted the importance of supporting new artists, and his collaboration with Amud reaffirms the richness and continuity of popular music in Brazil.
Another highlight of the album is “LINE SINGING THE SEA”sung by Caetano Veloso – with whom Thiago I had worked at another time. As the title suggests, the song is soft and delicate, like the waves of the sea on a summer night in Bahia. The voice of Caetano Embrace the song, which is resonating in memory like a breath.
It was dizzying to watch the recordings of these two voices. The fact of Chico and Caetano Being there, lending tones, understanding, breathing to what I had created endowed my historic load album and filled my life of life, ”defined the artist.
The album also features other striking tracks, such as “Prayer to the big snake” and “The Lightning”which continue to explore the eclecticism of the work of Amud with the depth of something that is not defined.
I imagine that of all my records this is the one that most puts the question of unity to the listener, or the possible lack of it. Perhaps this is due to the presence of some very personal, affective songs that do not refer to an intellectually defined project.
The “lost cove”, when it appears in the letter of “January Bay” It refers to something very concrete: the grounding of the waters of Rio de Janeiro. But when I name a disk, it is as if the expression also designates affective or even metaphysical things. ”
Loset It is the new chapter of Thiago Amudwhich already has albums like Sacred (2010), From end to end everything is beach-palma (2013), The cinema that the sun doesn’t go out (2018) and They are (2021), these last two released by the Rocinante label.
Amud also worked with Guinga and Francis Himeand their songs were interpreted by artists as Milton Nascimento, Ana Carolina, Leila Pinheiro, Monica Salmaso and Alione.
Publicing the album on his social networks, he wrote: “Being an artist is being hostage. But art does not double. ” Creating and publishing an album that values Brazilian musicality is one of the ways to do this.
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Source: Rollingstone
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