Bugiganga Tropical Vol.3 7 inch vinyl
Featuring the Band Forró De Cabeça
Forró de Cabeça is since few years on the road, the Forró band original from the Várzea district in Recife the main city of Pernambuco state in north east region in Brazil. The district of Várzea is well know in the music scene in that region for the strong cultural engagement of the people, furthermore the district gave birth to very known artists like the singer Otto, the reggae band N’Zambi or the performer Abyssal. Rhythms like forró, xote, xaxado, pé de serra, coco, maracatu, afoxé or ciranda are at home here. Musicians like Luiz Gonzaga, Luiz Paixão, Elba Ramalho, Dominguinhos, Siba, Hermeto Pascoal or Cila do Coco are among their influences.
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About the Bugiganga Tropical Vinyl Collection.
Part of this narrative is the graphic design used in our records, expressing a profound conviction of our commitment with our musical research facing the question of how to address the cultural life of communities, that only became part of the historical record from the moment Europeans became aware of their existence, which further means that their history is shaped by the way of looking at, by the narratives of the Europeans traders and colonialists from the time where Native Americans and Africans were Slaughtered in the Name of ‘Civilization’.
We oft refer to the Americas in order to emphasize the unity of the continent from the north to the south, or we speak about the African diaspora. However, are these terms accurate? Since the word “America” is a derivation from the name of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci as generalized by the German-Flemish cartographer Mercator, it is clearly inadequate to designate the rich complexity of the original communities living in those continents. Part of this narrative is the graphic design we use in our records specially in our very first.
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