A tune that will make you skip through the week, this edit from Berlin based label Voodoohop. The Brazilian Magician Rafael Temperini, has remixed a masterpiece Gwira Mi, by the late Argentinian composer Ramiro Musotto, who sadly passed away at the age of 45, in 2009.
Ramiro Musotto is known for his exceptional and innovative work on the Berimbau, a single-string percussion instrument (a musical bow) which often used in Capoeira (a brazilian folk art that ritualizes movement from martial arts, games, and dance). He was influenced by Naná Vasconcelos when he was teenager. He moved to Bahia, Brazil in his early 20s to perfect his technique in playing the Berimbau. He also started to play at Carnival Team of Bahia which Carlinhos Brown was one of the percussionists. Ramiro’s debut 2003 release Sudaka, was a gathering between Amazon Indian chant field recordings, Afro- Brazilian Candomblé spirit rituals, the call of an Argentinean urban street vendor, and Musotto’s own urbanized electronic beats.
Gwira Mi is a track from Ramiro’s 2007 Album”Civilização & Barbarye”with the participation of Arto Lindsay and Chico César . The album name aims to overcome the dichotomy of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in his book Civilization and Barbarism. And for his previous album, Musotto said that “perhaps unconsciously the message has been trying to prove that different and seemingly incompatible things can coexist in harmony. The past and the present, the ‘civilization’ and ‘barbarism’, the East and West, ultramodern and ‘primitive .”
Musotto worked with an array of artists like Skank , Lenine Marisa Monte , Marina Lima , Daniela Mercury , Os Paralamas do Sucesso , Caetano Veloso , Gilberto Gil , Lulu Santos , Zeca Baleiro , Adriana Calcanhotto , Titãs , Fernanda Abreu , Sergio Mendes , Zelia Duncan , Kid Abelha and Gal Costa .
The emerging Rafael Temperini has created a individual, but respectful formula= “electronic+traditions” makes it unique and beautiful. It is trance-like and nomadic music with a touch of Brazil spice.