[youtube id=”mP5SJrGmVfI”] BROOKZILL! releases a lyric video for “Let’s Go (É Noiz)” from their Throwback To The Future album coming out next Friday. The group explores the rhythmic connections between Brooklyn and Brazil using their combined mastery of both sounds. Watch the moving sideways silhouettes of the band members and yellow text move in time to the tribal funk of “Let’s Go (É Noiz).”
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Keyboardist Jose Roberto Bertrami, guitarist Alex Malheiros and drummer Ivan Conti became the Brazilian jazz-funk trio called Azymuth in 1972. They called their music “crazy samba” but it really sounded like a more festive style of fusion from Weather Report. Their first album was the soundtrack to the Brazilian film “O Fabuloso Fittipaldi” in 1972. They recorded for a few different labels including Atlantic before they signed a contract with American jazz label Milestone in 1979. The Light As A Feather album from 1979 was immediately noticed for the rollicking basslines of “Jazz Carnival” which made it globally accepted dance tune. “Partido Alto” is from this album as well as “Fly Over The Horizon” and “Light As A Feather.” Their enormous recording legacy has spanned almost four decades and 20 plus releases of which the band regards 1982’s Telecommunication to be their most significant album. They also produced several albums as solo artists and Ivan Conti recorded Sujinho with Madlib in 2008. Bertrami’s July 8th 2012 passing makes the Aurora album from 2011 their last recording as a trio.
BK-One’s remix EP, Tema Do Canibal, dropped today and is streaming at AOL. MF Doom’s cameo is a gem, but the fact that BK brought Brazilian crate-digger DJ Nuts together on a song with the legendary Helcio Milito (who mastered and invented an instrument, the Tamba) makes for a unique summer closer.
Stream it here.
Buy it on vinyl.
DJ/Producer BK-One has combined his interests in Brazilian music with hip-hop and “Tema Do Canibal” is from his EP of the same name that will be available Tuesday.