São Jorge

We are happy to present our most ambitious project to date! This album is another chapter in the ongoing "there's-much-more-to-Brazil-than-bossa-nova" saga. It's filled with disco-era tracks produced for the Brazilian domestic marketplace, some of which were hits, others which were quite obscure. What binds them all together - besides their common origins, time period and overall musical approach - is the fact that their reputation has been steadily transcending Brazil's borders. This has allowed these tunes to find their place on set lists, want lists and in the crates of the world's most discerning DJs and tastemakers.

Over a squalling mess of improvised guitar and sax, a twisted, almost broken female vocal cries out to Exu, the gatekeeper of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. This is the ‘Afro-punk’ sound of Metá Metá - Vocalist Juçara Marçal, saxophonist Thiago França and guitarist Kiko Dinucci – a trio of Sao Paulo’s most sought after musicians, struggling to survive the 21st century sonic schizophrenia of their home city Sao Paulo. Metá Metá’s sophomore album and debut for Mais Um Discos MetaL MetaL launches itself from the ancient chants of the orixás into a dirty brew of psychedelic samba, distorted jazz and Afro-punk. The band are all followers of candomblé yet Thiago is eager to point out that they are not using the orixás to preach certain beliefs but to provide a framework within which they tell their stories.

“Whoever has been following the musical movements happening within our culture, must have noticed this young singer hailing from the North of Brazil. An absolute master of Baião, Côco, Batuque and other related musical genres and the owner of an art one hundred percent his own, Ary Lobo is the ideal interpreter of northeastern songs."

With his enchanting Chamber Music for Harp, Oboe, English Horn, Flute, Viola and Cello, German composer Dirk Michael Kirsch, transports us to captivating islands of dreams. Dirk-Michael Kirsch attended until 1984 the Gymnasium Sylt. After graduation he studied oboe, pedagogy and chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Hagen Wangenheim. The pedagogical, artistic and chamber music diploma was followed by engagements at the Städtischen Bühnen Augsburg, the Bavarian State Opera and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Dirk-Michael Kirsch has a broad spectrum as a freelance musician: He teaches at the University of Augsburg and at the Augsburg Musikgymnasium St. Stephan, as well as at the Musikschule Grünwald. He also plays in numerous orchestras and ensembles.