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nacao zumbi Now imagine a bunch of thrashers who know how to play outside the square and have roots that stretch to the centre of the earth and you’ve got Nacao Zumbi. Their eponymously titled album on Session Records is the second since the untimely death a few years back of Chico Science, the group’s founder and Brazil’s leading hard-rocker at the time. What is remarkable about the band is that, even though ostensibly the music is a blurring melange of hard-rock, hip-hop and experimental electronica, it also harks back to a plethora of traditional melodies and rhythms in new ways and combinations. Tropical beats and chants are turned on their head creating a genre-defying, multi-layered panorama of music that fairly pounds with over the top rhythms, guitar and keyboards, while hip-hop, samba, blues, punk, jazz and capoeira are murdered with a clear conscience. This album is at least the equal of their first release Radio S.amb.a which was reviewed in 2002 in Diaspora magazine and telling demonstration that afro-tropical beats coupled with roots-consciousness will out-thrash anything that Detroit might have to offer. RJ
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