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Global Routes with Tony Burke: October 25, 2024
Brazilian groove, Black Africa and Malian mixtures
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FORMED in 2012 Nomade Orqestra are a 10-piece band hailing from ABC Paulista, an industrial centre on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Their new set Terceiro Mundo (Third World), an instrumental album, is released on the New York City label Nublu. 

The band say the album is about “the groove,” with strong jazz, funk and soul influences, featuring a powerful brass section as well as sounds from different cultures including Africa, and from immigrants who have brought their sounds to the melting pot that is the music of Brazil. 

Tracks like Mariposa Tigre combine influences from funk and reggae while Invasao de Pindorama reflects Brazil’s open mixed-race culture. The tracks were recorded live in the studio in one take with no overdubs, and feature samples of Brazilian activist Paulo Roberto da Silva Lima (aka Paulo Galo) who formed Entregadores Antifascistas, the movement that has focused on the working conditions of fast-food workers in the Brazil gig economy.

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