MONOKINI

The 60s have been essential for nowadays´ pop music. It brought concepts and postures, along with styles and proposals that found each other odd and kept certain distance between them, despite the delicious and almost dismissible quality they had. In Brazil, the bossa crew could not stand the jovem guarda rebels, which thought that the bossa guys were too put. The geniality of Monokini is to join these styles and to find their own identity in the middle of that, with keyboards that recall the easy listening of Sergio Mendes and the elegant pop of Burt Bacharach. Guitars and basses find the balance between the pop of the Beatles, the irresistible moves of the Jovem Guarda and the electric bossa of Roberto Menescal. Drums and percussion in the exact key between music and rhythm; candy vocals, almost childish, recall Astrud Gilbert and Françoise Hardy; and yet a mood of Phil Spector and girl groups as Ronettes. The lyrics are naive and innocent, remembering the time where the important things were the good things of the life as the blue sea, the girl of Ipanema and the boy of Sampa. They had participated of compilations around the world and Mondo Topless, their debut, is one of the most appraised independent records in Brazil.

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AUTOBAHN

I got an e-mail by my friend Fabiane telling me about AUTOBAN. Big surprise for me when I saw in the band line up my old friend Luciano Franco on guitar. Luciano played in excelent band in the 90's named LOVELESS that is a kind of Galaxie 500 from Curitiba. More later he played in a cover project called PLAYBACK SINGERS, a name band taken of one of Damon & Naomi album. Currently Luciano was (or is) playing in another electropop band ESS. But he is never satisfied because now he joined to a weird indie pop band AUTOBAHN line up by friends from Curitiba and the impossible to believe....they sing in germany(!). It is my first time that i see something like that in Brazil but let the things happen. AUTOBAHN maybe disagree your ears but the indie and hypes from alternative scene will love. Soon they are on Ultimo Volume airplay radio. I forgot to tell: I love them too.

ONE MAN BARBECUE

I knew Norberto Pie in the 90's when he was playing in a set show in Curitiba with my fauvorite band in that time named VORVOLAKA PRAY. I introduce myself to him and said "I want be your friend, Norberto". Since then we have been friends although nowadays is so difficult to meet each other. Norberto Pie is an open minded rocker and it is interesting he is all the time creating new bands as Vorvolaka pray (1989-1990), Sour Puss (A.C. Temple album name, 1990-1991), Skijktl (1991-2005), Fucke (1994-2005), AAAAAA Malencarada (1996-2002), Carlos (2002), Aos Cacos (Globo da Morte, 2003-2004), Live Transmission (2002-2006), Vasodilatadores (2006) and currently One Man Barbecue. Norberto, go ahead playing feedbacks, noises and music for neighborhood.