This Brazillian's release was voted top 10 by a local music writer. His description sounded interesting. Anyone heard? Comments? The scribe's words below (Ray Pride).
Matt
LUCAS SANTTANA Eletro Ben Dodo (Natasha) Taking cues from tropicalia avatars Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso -- and sampling both of
them on the album's opening track -- this young Brazilian songwriter and singer injects native forms like samba and afoxe with heady doses of funk guitar and electronic effects, melding inventive, liquid melodies with giddy, propulsive grooves. He even manages to make James Brown's "Doing It to Death" his own, replacing the classic funky-good-time guitar with the hypnotic twang of a berimbau.
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