03.02.2026-ANITTA Funk Generation (Floresta/Republic,2024)

 

BRAZILLIAN FUNK

   Funk Generation presents Brazilian funk to those unfamiliar with the genre. It does not promise anything other than that (or to “make you lose your breath”). Depending on who you ask, that may be a humble or a bold promise. Does Brazilian funk need a sommelier like Anitta? It may not have needed her to go viral countless times worldwide, but the music deserves someone who takes its global projection as seriously as Anitta does.

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01.02.2026-GABBY YOUNG & OTHER ANIMALS One Foot In Front Of The Other (Gift Of The Gab,2014)

 

POP / FOLK

   Gabby Young is an intriguing curiosity. Flamboyantly dressed, classically trained, and once the youngest member of the National Youth Choir, she has a distinctive, at times operatic voice, and a style that's increasingly hard to pin down. She has played at Womad, where she did well with her Balkan-influenced, brass-backed circus swing, but is still expanding her range, as shown by this thoughtful set, in which she constantly changes direction. The global influences now include French chanson – with the unworldly-sounding Sur la Lune – and Caribbean styles, with steel drums joining the brass on the exuberant Back Where We Started, and echoes of European gypsy brass on the stomping and witty I've Improved and the cheerful and then angry The Devil Has Moved On. Mixed in with all this are slower ballads; best is the exquisite and personal Fear of Flying.

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