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Quando SerĂ 

Artist: Alex Figueira · Maxado
Release: 2020
Maxado, Alex Figueira

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Artist

Alex Figueira · Maxado

Label

Music With Soul

Release Date

2020

Catalog

MWS 011

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Weight 0,080 kg
Format

EU7"

State

Artist

Alex Figueira · Maxado

Label

Music With Soul

Release Date

2020

Catalog

MWS 011

Description

Alex Figueira, the man behind Music With Soul, Fumaça Preta & Conjunto Papa Upa, has teamed up with Maxado, Brazil’s leading rocksteady vocalist, to create another impossible crossover, connecting the dots of the vast tropical music map that have remained appart for far too long.

What if the now-legendary producer Lee Perry had recorded & produced the nascent Wailers trio of Neville Livingston, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, not in Kingston, the scorching hot Jamaican capital, but instead in Belém, an even hotter city, at the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

Whilst Kingston’s airwaves and street parties were dominated by the locally produced rocksteady, ska and reggae, BelĂ©m was dancing to it’s own beat of carimbĂ³ and siriĂ¡.

Alex Figueira and Maxado, two avid fans of both musical traditions, entered the BarracĂ£o Sound Studio, Amsterdam’s famed vintage recording studio, determined to find an answer to that hypothetical question. The result is not only tangible and unprecedented, but incredibly emotive & hypnotic too.

The chorus of “Quando SerĂ¡” is unnervingly apt for our times tool, “Quando serĂ¡ que eu vou te ver?”, or “When will I see you?” the song asks. Well until we see each other, Music With Soul offers some musical relief in the form of this collaborative song.

The B side offers a beautiful touching instrumental version, led by the impeccable flute rendition of Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Milliet, a prominent member of the Brazilian music scene in Amsterdam and Alex’s long time collaborator having shared the stage countless times in the past 3 years. His delicate phrasing will give you goosebumps.

Alex Figueira is well known as the man behind experimental tropical rock-outfit, Fumac̀§a Preta, and more recently the psychedelic tropical dance band, Conjunto Papa Upa. Meanwhile, he has become a staple of the Amsterdam scene, having either played with, recorded or produced everyone from Mauskovic Dance Band to Altin GĂ¼n. SĂ£o Paulo-based musician & singer composer Maxado made his mark fronting Firebug, Brazil’s leading, if not only, rocksteady band, also featuring influential musician, producer and mix engineer Victor Rice. The two musicians met during Alex’s first trip to Brazil, when he was already a massive Firebug fan, and quickly formed a firm friendship. Finally over the course of Maxado’s first visit to Amsterdam, the pair had a crack at writing & recording together, quickly discovering that their chemistry extended to the studio. Now you can hear the first fruits of their blossoming musical relationship.

  1. A. Quando SerĂ¡ 1:30
  2. B. Quando SerĂ¡ (Flute Version) 1:30