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Beyond the Tourist Snapshot: Bahia in Motion
A 1977 “field recording” tried to bottle Bahia as exotic ambience. The reality is a living current of capoeira, blocos afro, pagodão, and funk.
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Tracing geographies through basslines and borders.
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Gilberto Gil: Doctor of Rhythm, Minister of Difference
From Tropicália to cultural policy, Brazil’s most visionary musician is honored not just for his songs, but for reshaping what democracy sounds like.
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Hermeto Pascoal and the Unbound Geography of Sound
In an age when climate catastrophe forces us to reimagine our relationship with the natural world, a forty-year-old performance in a Brazilian cave system reads like prophecy.
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Before Netflix and Chill, There Was Samba and Canvas
Di Cavalcanti turned samba from criminal soundtrack into modernist masterpiece. Then capitalism ate it alive.
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Radio Bruxaria: DJ K’s Funk of Liberation
DJ K calls it bruxaria: a sonic language of rupture and survival that reimagines funk as both ritual chaos and political weapon.
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From Salvador to Lisbon: The BaianaSystem Supply Chain
How Salvador's sonic insurgents built a transatlantic pipeline for musical resistance.
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Between Beats and Borders: MC Gringo, Germany’s Funk Carioca Anomaly
He crossed continents not with luggage, but with basslines.
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Louder Than Permission: The Untamed Life Of Fluxo Da Rua
Fluxo da Rua, a spontaneous and often criminalised form of street gathering, is as much about visibility as it is about music. It may not seek approval, but it demands to be understood.
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When the Police Start Reading Your Lyrics in Court, You Know the Culture War Turned Real
How Brazil Turns Art Into Evidence—and Why the Real Crime is Censorship.
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Noise Is Queen: Deize Tigrona's Two-Decade Revolution
From favela frequencies to global stages, the queen of Brazilian funk refuses to turn down.
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Capicua: Singing Against Sleep
In Portugal’s age of political exhaustion, the rapper, writer, and scholar Ana Matos Fernandes — known as Capicua — insists that staying sensitive is an act of resistance.
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The Moral Panic Mixtape: Tuga Drill and the Politics of Noise
While the far right organizes, the state obsesses over teenagers with microphones. Welcome to Portugal.