Ever since their arrival with the album La Revancha del Tango, many paths have unfolded for the Franco-Argentinian band. Their tours were long-running, they participated in Hollywood soundtracks and even varied in the styles of music they took influence from. Continue Reading

Jungle caught up with Man Recordings head honcho and baile funk connoisseur Daniel Haaksman, who cottoned on to the vibrant baile funk scene and sound back in 2003 and has been playing and releasing it ever since, ahead of his London gigs in May (see below) to see what’s making him tick these days. And who better to interview him than young mashup DJ, João Brasil!

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Both in its name and reality, with Camino being a rendez vous ‘on the way’, the Kings Cross hub of Latin music and fine Tapas has proved that it’s no mere passing trend, as on 19^th May the restaurant is set to mark its 3^rd anniversary. Continue Reading

An album sales sensation in Brasil, Vinicius lives like an underground musician in New York. Searching for the new and unknown, he’s collaborated with the jazz of Bill Frisell and the eclectic multimedia of David Byrne, reflecting his own musical style, and he still loves to get sounds out of everything, even pizza boxes. Continue Reading

Clara Moreno is on tour promoting her new album, Miss Balanço. The style in hand is noneother than pure samba-swing. Despite her bossanova roots (as daughter of composer Nelson Angelo Moreno and renowned singer Joyce), in this her fourth album the singer introduces us to her new-found passion for funky samba grooves, and she’s already assuring that her next album will follow the same lines. Continue Reading

The Brazilian percussionist in search of new rhythms, his African roots, and a route home

Although not fantastically well-known, Adriano Adewale is a name worth keeping an eye on – you’re likely to see it around. This Brazilian musician, half African, almost Londoner yet completely global, arrived here in the capital ten years ago, and these days wins audiences over all around. Full of energy and agility, Adewale fell for music as a child, through is grandfather. As many Brazilians do, he came to London to learn English and discover another culture, but his main motive was to be a touch closer to his roots, in Africa. Continue Reading

Since 2001, when they emerged on Rio’s new bohemian scene, the sound of Casuarina has come to be described as samba, in brand new clothes. But what draws people to their music isn’t the band members wearing t-shirts and playing rounds of samba on Rio’s stages, but rather seeing young musicians, who grew up influenced by rock and various other styles of music, reopening the doors of classic Brasilian music and presenting these gems to the new generations.

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Brazil’s Carnival comes to Bristol with ZIRIGUIDUM featuring: Continue Reading

The Nothing Hill Arts Club will celebrate Mayday making way for the original sounds of the night of the global underground new and old music brought to you by DJ Russ Jones and DJ Cliffy, the latter having just got back from a few months in Brazil with plenty of new tunes, promising a fantastic old part set. Continue Reading