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Gira

By Marcelo Frota

Label: Batov Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Para; Rio; Passo De Avarandar; Oqueeei; Jao; My Mind; Beija Flor; Summer Interlude; A Walk In The Park; Gira.

MOMO.: Gira

by Chris May
September 27, 2024

Gira is one of those exhilarating beyond-category albums which London produces uniquely well, if the gentle reader will excuse a little partisanship. It is part música popular brasileira (MPB) and part jazz, but never entirely one or the other, swinging between the two as the fancy takes it. Add to that splashes of West African highlife, ...

Tamar Osborn: From Kalakuta To Collocutor: New Directions In Jazz

by Chris May
October 12, 2020

She has been likened to Gil Evans, Fela Kuti, Pharoah Sanders, Bismillah Khan and Mulatu Astatke, and the traditions represented by those musicians are all to be heard in the music of baritone saxophonist and composer Tamar Osborn. Osborn's aesthetic, however, is her own, and her band, Collocutor, is among the most distinctive on the British ...