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Rodrigo Tavares

Congo

By Rodrigo Tavares

Label: Hive Mind Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Side A: Rosa Rio; Congo 1; De Roda; A Raposa E O Corvo. Side B: Yangon; Cidade Sol 1; Cidade Sol 2; Dezesseis; Congo 2.

Rodrigo Tavares: Congo

by Chris May
April 28, 2018

Guitarist Rodrigo Tavares cites his primary influences as bossa nova and tropicália pioneers João Gilberto, Dorival Caymmi, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Tom Zé. But you would not guess it from Congo, a collection of lyrical instrumentals which reference Brazil only in passing, and which consciously avoid any recognisable sense of ...