Flavia Coelho - Bossa Muffin (Nosso Diario Edition) (2015)

Tracklist
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01. Bossa Muffin (O Viajante)
02. Amor e Futebol
03. Sunshine
04. A Foto
05. De Paris a Rio
06. Cocha Bamba
07. O Gênio
08. Interlude
09. Canta Comigo
10. Agnes
11. Decide
12. O Que Sou
13. Bossa Bika Nova
14. Liberdade
15. Rap Sem Armas
16. Parano
17. Periferia
18. Mina de Niterói


Un "carnet de voyage". C’est ainsi que Flavia Coelho, fille de l’air nee a Rio de Janeiro et installee a Paris depuis 2006, decrit son premier album. L’image colle a ce disque virevoltant, fidele reflet d’une existence joyeusement mouvementee, ouverte a la beaute des decouvertes et des rencontres. Son titre, Bossa Muffin, qui est aussi celui d’un irresistible single, le deuxieme apres le tres remarque ''Sunshine'', claque comme une declaration d’independance, ou un manifeste.
Gommant les frontieres entre les genres comme entre tradition et modernite, le melting-pop hors categorie de Bossa Muffin n’est pas un produit de synthese cree artificiellement en laboratoire : il est le fruit savoureux et parfaitement muri d’une trajectoire et d’une personnalite uniques. Un melange sans pareil entre les tresors harmoniques de la samba et de la bossa nova, les melodies obsedantes des musiques populaires nordestines (forro, pagode…), les syncopes chaloupees du reggae, la tchatche virtuose du raggamuffin, les pulsations fondamentales des musiques africaines, voire par instants les tonalites de la rumba catalane.

Bossa Muffin is a « traveller’s diary » as Flavia Coelho describes it herself. It tells the story of a man who travels the world in order to find out more about himself. After leaving Rio de Janeiro for Paris in 2006, she met Bika Bika Pierre, a musician from Cameroon, who « opened the path to African music » for her, encouraging her to take up the guitar and work with fellow musician and producer Victor Vagh. With her two accomplices, joined by a group of musicians from various horizons, Flavia managed to craft a finely assorted sound; Bossa Muffin highlights the variety of her vocal talent.
Bossa Muffin is a unique mix of samba and bossa nova harmonic treasures, the hypnotic rhythm of the popular Nordestine music (forro, pagode…), the bouncing loops of reggae, the skilful braggadocio of raggamuffin, the essential pulses of African music, or even a glimpse of Catalan rumba…all of the above, seasoned with the voice of Flavia Coelho, no added effects or conceit – just a soft voice, a proud and fragile twang, appealing and warm, her colloquial voice, deep and natural. Erasing the boundaries between genre, between the tradition and the contemporary, Bossa Muffin, is however not a synthetic product created artificially in a laboratory, but rather a flavoursome fruit perfectly matured with unique experience and personality.

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