What is some good modern Samba dance music?
I suggest the new album by Kassin +2, Futurismo (Luaka Bop), Domenico +2’s 2004 Sincerely Hot and Moreno +2’s Music Typewriter from 2001, which incorporate into their own samba-rooted and Brazilian folklorical musics. -quote- “But dig far enough into each, and you’ll find the composers’ common reverence for the golden braid of Brazil’s rhythm-melody-harmony. The new album by Kassin +2, Futurismo (Luaka Bop), is the third in a trilogy of +2 albums (also Domenico +2’s 2004 Sincerely Hot and Moreno +2’s Music Typewriter from 2001) released by the three members of one of the best and most relevant bands in Brazil. The trio, Moreno, Domenico and Kassin, are bursting with great ideas about how to bring Brazilian music into the 21st century. Each is an amazingly versatile composer and multi-instrumentalist, with a typically Brazilian love of musical variety, Brazilian or not. In this respect, they are the heirs to the greats of Brazil’s Tropicalismo and rock movements of the late ’60s and ear
