Convoque Seu Buda

by Criolo

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1.	Convoque Seu Buda 03:51	info	buy track
2.	Casa de Papelão 04:58	info	buy track
3.	Cartão de Visita feat. Tulipa Ruiz 03:23	info	buy track
4.	Esquiva da Esgrima 04:29	info	buy track
5.	Fermento Pra Massa 03:40	info	buy track
6.	Plano de Vôo feat. Síntese 03:37	info	buy track
7.	Pegue Pra Ela 04:25	info	buy track
8.	Pé de Breque 04:06	info	buy track
9.	Duas de Cinco 03:44	info	buy track
10.	Fio de Prumo (Padê Onã) feat. Juçara Marçal 04:11	info	buy track

about

Now approaching his 40th year, Criolo is the child of migrants from the North East of Brazil and spent his first years in the 'Favela das Imbuias', one of the many shanty towns that surround São Paulo. Despite Brazil's remarkable growth, a mud-floored shack and polluted drinking-water remain the harsh reality for many, and it's this reality that continues to fuel Criolo's passion to speak out on behalf of the dispossessed.

Stacking supermarket shelves and selling clothes door-to-door helped sustain the young Kleber Gomes as he matured from a pre-teen rapper (his first song was written in 1985 aged 10) through seven years of working with “at risk” street children, and on to his first album, the rap-based 'Ainda há tempo' released in 2006. But it was 2011 and the stunning 'Nó na orelha' that really made the difference.

Initially available in Brazil as a free download and only commercially released in June 2012, the album mixed rap with with other genres including Afrobeat, Reggae and, not least, classic Brazilian song. It has now has received over a dozen awards internationally and Criolo has performed at hundreds of shows throughout Brazil and abroad. The album also gained admirers among his fellow artists, and Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Ney Matogrosso and Milton Nascimento, have all since collaborated with Criolo.

2013 saw the release of a 10” single ‘Duas de Cinco’. Its chorus, taken from the song “Califórnia Azul” by Rodrigo Campos, a Brazilian artist of the same generation as Criolo, was the starting point for both lyrics and beats, and a disturbingly futuristic video by filmmaker Denis Cisma, cemented its direction. It's this direction that Criolo's new album, 'Convoque seu Buda' (Invoke Your Buddha) now follows. However attractive the music, however fascinating the mix of styles, what always lies at the centre are Criolo's hard-hitting and socially conscious commentaries on the state of Brazil today, a state that the street demonstrations erupting prior to the World Cup could only hint at.

Criolo tells the story of the under-privileged in urban Brasil; in songs such as “Cartão de Visita” we look through the eyes of a poor worker who serves at parties for the rich and middle-class, in “Plano de Voo” we see the struggle of street children, and in “Casa de Papelão” we meet a homeless crack addict, expelled from the centre of São Paulo to make way for new luxury apartments ("Buildings will rise and glamour will reap bodies in the crowd"). Elsewhere, as in “Fermento pra Massa”, the archtype musical genre of Brazil, Samba, is co-opted to describe with gentle irony the day a baker was unable to get to work because of city-wide strikes by transport workers.

'Convoque seu Buda' is produced by the winning team of Daniel Ganjaman and Marcelo Cabral, and was recorded using the same group of musicians as on 'Nó na orelha'. Guest artists include Tulipa, a singer-songwriter from São Paulo, the young rapper Sintese and vocalist Jucara Marcal. It was mixed in Los Angeles, California by Mario Caldato Jr., well-known for his work with, among others, the Beastie Boys and Tone Loc.

credits

released December 8, 2014

Produced by Daniel Ganjaman and Marcelo Cabral

Recorded by Daniel Ganjaman at Studio El Rocha in São Paulo, Brazil
Assistant engineer: Fernando Sanches
Mixed by Mario Caldato Jr. at MCJ Studios in Los Angeles, USA
except for "Duas de Cinco", mixed by Daniel Ganjaman at Studio El Rocha
Mastered by Robert Carranza in Los Angeles, USA

Arrangements: Daniel Ganjaman and Marcelo Cabral
except for "Fermento Pra Massa": Kiko Dinucci, Rodrigo Campos, Daniel Ganjaman and Marcelo Cabral
String arrangements: Marcelo Cabral
Horn arrangements: "Casa de Papelão" - Thiago França; "Pé de Breque" - Daniel Ganjaman

Art direction: Denis Cisma
Graphic design: Lucas Rampazzo
Images: Rijksmuseum Free Collection

℗ 2015 Sterns Brasil
© 2015 Sterns Music

Issued under exclusive licence from Oloko Records

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Criolo São Paulo, Brazil

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May 17

Parque da cidade, Praças das Fontes

Brasilia, Brazil
May 25

Jockey Club

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 30

Hotel Fazenda Vale das Grutas

São Paulo, Brazil
Jun 8

Pedreira Paulo Leminsky

Curitiba, Brazil
Jul 5

Marina da Glória

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jul 13

Allianz Parque

São Paulo, Brazil
Aug 17

Expotrade Convention Center

Pinhais, Brazil

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