Never predictable, Criolo returns with his third long-player and another new departure… this time to his hip-hop past.
Ainda Há Tempo (There's Still Time) is a harder, more urgent record than Nó Na Orelha, the album that first made Criolo a household name in Brazil, and more stripped back than 2014's Convoque Seu Buda.
With the help of notable guest producers, Criolo re-works nine of his earliest compositions and pays homage to his hip hop beginnings as he goes back to the future!
In 2006 Kleber Gomes aka Criolo released his first studio album "Ainda Há Tempo” and quickly sold out the 500 copies he’d had made. Although by this time he’d been writing, rapping and, among other endeavours, organising hip hop parties on the São Paulo scene for almost 20 years (he’d written his first rap when when he was only eleven years old!) this was his first album, and it turned out to be a calling card for what has become one of the most successful careers in the rich musical vein that is Brazilian hip hop.
Criolo’s influences are wide and varied, not least the samba of his homeland, but as a pure hip hop album, "Ainda Há Tempo” (There’s Still Time) has always had a special place. Thus, 10 years later in 2016, Criolo and his musical director Daniel Ganjaman, found themselves in the studio recording new versions of the songs that first launched him. A real return to his roots.
credits
released January 1, 2017
Criolo: vocals
DJ DanDan: vocals
DJ Marco: scratches
Daniel Ganjaman: vocals, piano, bass, synthesisers and programming
Shirley and Euclides Krenak (from the Krenak tribe): voices on "Chuva Ácida"
Rael: vocals on "Tô Pra Ver"
Dudinha Lima: bass and guitar on "Tô Pra Ver"
Guto Bocão: percussion on "Até Me Emocionei"
Wesley Camilo: keyboards on "Até Me Emocionei"
Marcelo Cabral: double bass and strings arrangement on "Ainda Há Tempo"
Rael appears courtesy of Lab Fantasma
Musical director: Daniel Ganjaman
Recorded and mixed by Fernando Sanches and Daniel Ganjaman at El Rocha studio in São Paulo, Brazil.
Mastered by Fernando Sanches at El Rocha studio.
Artistic directors: Daniel Ganjaman and Biba Berjeaut
Executive producer: Alexandra Briganti
Art director: Pedro Inoue
Photographer: Gil Inoue
Design assistant: Marcos Ham
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