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Erê 04:00
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Diga 03:48 video
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Aterrizar 03:46
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Tá brabo 04:06
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Mole 02:20
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Quem samba 03:24
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Descomunal 03:46
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Florescer 02:33

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“Another absolutely brilliant album from the drummer and singer"
Gilles Peterson

“A synth-samba fusion you’ll learn to love” ★★★★☆ The Times

"Very Tom Zé" ★★★★☆ MOJO

“Full of wonderful sonic surprises” ★★★★☆ Songlines

"Gorgeous” Cerys Matthews

“From the sublime . . .to the otherworldly“ Sounds and Colours

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Tom Zé, Faust and João Gilberto collide in Domenico Lancellotti’s “machine samba”

It’s midwinter in Lisbon and Domenico Lancellotti has invited Ricardo Dias Gomes to stay for a while. They waste no time in doing what they always do, heading down to their underground studio, appropriately nicknamed The Cave, to make music. The fact that Ricardo had just been sent a bunch of Russian-designed synths and was eager to try them out, instantly signalled a direction for the album. “Ricardo had his instruments, modular machines” remembers Domenico, “and I had my guitar, some percussion instruments. On the first day we started making sounds and recording them, and songs started to appear, sambas started to appear.”

In just a couple of months the duo recorded the majority of what would become SRAMBA, an album that reaches back to the roots of samba, but does so whilst completely revamping its blueprint, indoctrinating guitar and percussion-led rhythms with analogue synthesisers, Ricardo’s beloved machines. For them, it was a natural fit. Domenico grew up in Rio de Janeiro surrounded by samba. The son of a renowned samba songwriter, at home he would watch his father play and compose. At parties, the adults would hand him a tamborim (a small tambourine) and ask him to play along. “I grew up inside samba, it’s my roots”, he says. “For me, everything is samba, I bring it into whatever style of music I am making”.

Domenico and Ricardo instantly saw how the synthesisers were not at odds with the sambas they were playing, instead they had a similar sound to its typical percussion instruments (ganza, repinique, surdo, tarol). What’s more, they saw a connection with roots samba, the samba that existed before bossa nova and samba jazz came along. This was rhythmic samba, with grooves that could go on ad infinitum. “It’s samba de clave, geometrically structured” says Domenico. “It’s ostinato samba”, adds Ricardo.

“Diga” is a great example of what their proposal is capable of, as what begins as a glitchy machine whirring into action soon turns into a glorious samba in which the gurgles and scratchy beats coming from the analogue equipment only add to the arrangement. Likewise, on “Tá Brabo” it’s an
aching melody from one of the synths that gives the guitar rhythm its needed counterpoint, and shows how the duo’s greatest accomplishment is not in invention alone, but in creating a great samba album. It’s an album that can go from the opening track “Ere” with its reverberant bass thud, mantra-like vocals and staccato rhythms to the string-accompanied “Nada Sera de Outra Maneira”, a swooning samba that pays tribute to the Brazilian ensemble Tamba Trio, who along with Tom Zé’s Estudando O Samba, Domenico names as the biggest influence on their treatment of samba.

Other important reference points are made clear on “Um Abraço No Faust”. One of three instrumentals on the album its title riffs off a João Gilberto song, “Um Abraço no Bonfá”, but whereas João Gilberto was giving a hug (um abraço) to bossa nova guitarist Luiz Bonfá, Domenico and Ricardo are giving theirs to the German avant-gardists Faust. “Quem Samba”, with its horn section and dramatic melody give a whiff of Domenico’s Italian ancestry, while “Descomunal” is devoid of rhythm whatsoever, guest vocalist Tori singing over a bed of electronic drums, cello and swirling synths, that highlights the duo’s unwillingness to stick to a particular formula.

Both Domenico Lancellotti and Ricardo Dias Gomes are revered names within Brazilian music over the past 20 years. As a member of the +2’s, with Moreno Veloso and Kassin, Domenico released a trio of albums on Luaka Bop in the early 00s that pioneered a new Rio samba sound with elements of funk and psychedelia. With Veloso and Kassin he would later form Orquestra Imperial, a big band intent on reviving ballroom (gafieira) samba, and that has worked with guest vocalists such as Seu Jorge, Elza Soares and Ed Motta. SRAMBA is his fourth solo album. Multi-instrumentalist Ricardo Dias Gomes first came to notice as a member of Caetano Veloso’s band Cê which helped reinvigorate Caetano’s career with a sound influenced by British new wave. As well as collaborations with Lucas Santtana, Negro Leo and Thiago Nassif, and work with his own group Do Amor, he has released a series of acclaimed solo albums that reveal a restless music-maker.

SRAMBA is a glorious showcase of the duo’s style, uniting Domenico’s playful lyrics and rhythmic, samba-rooted songs with with Ricardo’s assured accompaniment of unorthodox textures and instrumentations. It may be a new language for samba, machine samba (samba de máquina), but as Domenico says, “samba da máquina is samba”.

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released April 28, 2023

Domenico- guitarras, voz, mpc-1000, bateria eletrônica, caxixi
Ricardo- baixo, bateria eletrônica, rodhes
Aquiles Morais-trompete
Everson Morais- trombone
Arranjo de metais- Aquiles Morais

Gravado Na Cave
Por Ricardo Dias Gomes
Produzido por Ricardo Dias Gomes
Co-produzido por Domenico Lancellotti
Mixado por Zé Nando Pimenta no Arda Recorders
Master Michał Kupicz
Lisboa, 2022

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