TRACKLISTING: A1. Little Girl Blue A2. It Dont Mean A Thing A3. I Loves You, Porgy A4. Come On Back, Jack A5. Plain Gold Ring A6. Work Song A7. Children Go Where I Send You B1. Forbidden Fruit B2. Cotton-Eyed Joe (Live At Town Hall) B3. My Baby Just Cares For Me B4. African Mailman B5. Love Me Or Leave Me B6. Hes Got The Whole World In His Hands B7. Exactly Like You (Live At Town Hall Nina Simone was one of the most extraordinary artists of the twentieth century, an icon of American music. She was the consummate musical storyteller, a griot as she would come to learn, who used her remarkable talent to create a legacy of liberation, empowerment, passion, and love through a magnificent body of works. She earned the moniker ‘High Priestess of Soul’ for she could weave a spell so seductive and hypnotic that the listener lost track of time and space as they became absorbed in the moment. She was who the world would come to know as Nina Simone. When Nina Simone died on April 21, 2003, she left a timeless treasure trove of musical magic spanning over four decades from her first hit, the 1959 Top 10 classic “I Loves You Porgy,” to “A Single Woman,” the title cut from her one and only 1993 Elektra album. While thirty-three years separate those recordings, the element of honest emotion is the glue that binds the two together – it is that approach to every piece of work that became Nina’s uncompromising musical trademark. Os Barbapapas DooWooDooWoo Fun In The Church LP €18.19 FUN15 4260437156039 DEAL: 10% on 1-2, 20% on 3+ No SOR Country of Origin: DE TRACKLISTING: 1. Grou 2. Iiiiriri 3. Sanga 4. Zaatar 5. Saudade dos Humanos 6. Buena Onda 7. Sambeven 8. Doowoodoowoo 9. Noturna 10. Hy Brasil 11. Transparente 12. Vento 13. Medo de Muvuca LP FORMAT DETAILS: 135g Black Vinyl LP. PRIVATE LISTEN LINK: https://soundcloud.com/funinthechurch/sets/os-barbapapas-doowoodoowoo/s-Xq7bxhIZIqB MUSIC VIDEO LINK: ‘DooWooDooWoo’ – https://youtu.be/NxGc6JEMe1g OVERVIEW: Ready for take-off: Brazilian psychedelic quartet Os Barbapapas will release their first record DooWooDooWoo 14th May. Berlin-based record label Fun In The Church celebrates an LP release perfectly in line with their motto “Outernational Music For Interplanetary People”: DooWooDooWoo by Os Barbapapas will be the international debut of a highly talented band straight from the hip psychedelic scene in São. São Paulo meets Berlin – contemporary interplanetary diplomacy at its best. The result is a wondrous trip propelling us into outer space, to a lyrically unmanned space station where instrumental needles pierce the membrane of our planetary horizon, making way for a holistic psychedelic experience of our world. Our tour guides are Barbara Mucciollo (Drums, Percussion), Selva Rubens (Electric Guitar), Fernando Lima (Percussion, Drums) and Tomás Oliveira (Glass Harp, Bass), who is also responsible for production and mix. In times like these, producing a record like DooWooDooWoo is not a trivial thing at all, especially in Brazil, where Covid struck hard. The four artists had to improvise: since the initial plan to record an album in a studio was made impossible, the already drafted songs where postponed in favor of a new concept. Everyone recorded ideas for themselves, to which the others would contribute their tracks later, eventually building the 13 track-long interstellar journey that is the album. Collective improvisation chronologically untangled. Though DooWooDooWoo was created in physical distance, the LP still became a 25-minute-long monument to the extraordinary vibe of the band. Its unpretentious and playful sound can only originate from the natural bond of those who speak the same musical language. And while listening to the first bars of the album and asking oneself if this could also be The Residents or Hermeto Pascoal producing Khruangbin’s next record, one has already been befallen by the spell of the four Brazilian mages. At the very latest, the third song “Sanga” will draw in even the most reluctant sceptic, when Selva Rubens sounds his self-made pot guitar. Welcome to the desert jungle. Here, Tropicália meets exotica. Space meets desert. Surf meets western. The evoked visions maintain their wonder throughout the whole album, supported by the varied rhythms of the two drummers Mucciollo and Lima, who alternate skillfully between funky grooves, electronic sounds and classic percussion patterns, awarding the album a continuous flow. Brought together with Oliveira’s science-fiction sounds produced by his Glass Harp and the absence of vocals, they unfold a hypnotizing force that seems to slow down time. This unique sound is glued together by Selva Rubens’ guitar, always present with twangy melodies and reverberating harmonies. That way, Os Barbapapas weave us a sound that could only have been created in the cultural melting pot that is São Paulo. All the more exciting that Fun In The Church will deliver us that sound on vinyl. The recording process has been a lifeline to the four Brazilians in Covid-induced isolation. Tomás Oliveira writes: “It’s been a great source of good mental health and daydreams”. This feeling perforates the music. And sounds truly outernational!
