MM3 Metá Metá

• 1 Três Amigos 04:11
• 2 Angoulême 02:01
• 3 Imagem do Amor 05:56
• 4 Mano Légua 02:44
• 5 Angolana 04:02
• 6 Corpo vão 03:21
• 7 Osanyin 04:42
• 8 Toque Certeiro 04:09
• 9 Obá Kosô 09:22
• Total Runtime 40:28

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Ohne Zweifel gehört das Trio um Sängerin Juçara Marçal zu den progressivsten Kräften der brasilianischen Musikszene. Man hat die Musik von Metá Metá als 'Candomblé-Punk' beschrieben, da sie die Klänge der afro-brasilianischen Rituale mit anarchischer Energie verknüpfen. Auf ihrem dritten Werk ist der Unterton noch wütender geworden, was nicht verwundert: Denn direkt beeinflusst von der politischen Krise in der Heimat sei die Musik, sagt Marçal, von der Machtübernahme der konservativsten, reaktionärsten Sektoren, die die Bürgerrechte einschränken. In 'Angoulême' schreien Noise-Gitarren mit dem Saxophon um die Wette, eindringlicher Sprechgesang baut sich in 'Imagem Do Amor' zu Gefühlsausbrüchen über gewaltigen Schlagzeuggewittern auf. An anderer Stelle dagegen ('Três Amigos') kommen die exotischen Skalen der äthiopischen Musik zum Tragen oder es wird die Rhythmik Schwarzafrikas in den Zorn eingewoben ('Toque Certeiro'). Der Soundtrack zu einer brisanten Großwetterlage.

„An extraordinary style – the music echoes everything from punk rock to freeform jazz and samba.“ (The Guardian)

„Metá Metá are a raucous trio intent on shattering images of Brazilian music.“ (The Wire)

Thiago França, saxophone
Kiko Dinucci, guitar, vocals
Juçara Marçal, vocals
Marcelo Cabral, bass
Sergio Machado, drums



Recorded live on 21-23 March 2016 at Red Bull Station studio, São Paulo, Brazil
Engineered by Rodrigo Funai
Mixed by Gustavo Lenza at Estudio Navegantes, São Paulo, Brazil
Mastered by Felipe Tichauer at Redtraxx Music, Miami, United States

Metá Metá
From São Paulo in Brazil, Metá Metá is a jazz fusion band formed in 2007 around the core trio of Juçara Marçal (vocals), Kiko Dinucci (guitar & vocals) [both of whom collaborated on the 2008 album Padê] and Thiago França (saxophone & flute). Released in 2011, Metá Metá’s first self-titled album anchored the trio’s sound in the classic Afro-Samba style popularised by Baden Powell and Vinicius De Moraes in the late 1960s while also venturing into free jazz and rock music.

The band’s second album Metal Metal which originally came out in 2012 in Brazil was released internationally on the Mais Um Discos label in March 2014 last and sees the addition of bass, drums and percussions to expand the trio’s sound into new electric, punk and psychedelic territories. Always based on a solid voice/guitar/saxophone foundation, every song quickly expands into a fascinating sonic maelstrom of polyrhythms, saturated guitars and saxophone, electronic glitches and ecstatic chanting. At times, Metal Metal is very close in spirit to Moa Anbessa, the extraordinary 2006 collaboration between veteran Dutch punk band The Ex and Ethiopian saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya.

With the band constantly delving into their Afro-Brazilian musical and spiritual roots (Metá Metá meaning “Three in One” in the Yoruba language), several songs (“Exu”, “Oyá”, “Logun” or “Orunmilá”) all invoke the spirit of the Orixás, the deities from the traditional Yoruba religion which enslaved African priests brought over to the new continent with them and which have been assimilated with other beliefs into Candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian syncretic religion.

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