z'Bumba

• Gabriella Tagliacozzo - lead vocals, guitar, perc
• Joe Root ('Zé Raiz') - Accordion
• Jake Pegg - bass, vocals, percussion
• Hans 'Lambada' Barklis - cavaquinho, vocals, perc.
• Chariti ‘Stremf’ Montez - Triangle, percussion, voc
• Angela Barco - Percussion, vocals
• Blake ‘Cabra da Ilha’ Thomas - Zabumba, percussion, voc.

z'Bumba brings Forró (fo-HOh,) the raucous, rebellious roots music of Brazil's northeast, to the American Northwest.

What if Zydeco met Salsa on a hot rainforest night?

As if love child of such a meeting, this irrepressibly danceable music is a fresh, tropical aural fruit salad, a gorgeous mixture of impossibly delicious sounds like juicy mango accordions, peppery percussion, and the passion-fruit Portuguese poetry as sung by scintillating São Paulo songstress Gabriella. It's hard to believe it was once the theme music of the Cangaçeiros, the infamous desert 'pirates' of Brazil's hinterlands.

Forró dancing is easy but fun, a little like a two-step; it's as if English country dancing had run off and gone wild in the colonies, especially the squaredance known as "Quadrilha." It's accessible to even the most sober, solemnly avowed non-dancers.

• Bandeira Flor - Daniela Mercury
• Cumiamoura - Carlinhos Brown
• Cantiga de Sapo - Jackson do Pandeiro
• Cirandeiro - Luiz Gonzaga
• Cumbia en Azul - Jaime Llano Gonzales
• Enxuga o Rato - Traditional
• Estrela Miuda - João do Vale
• Expresso 2222 - Gilberto Gil
• Feira de Mangaio - Sivuca
• Forró No. 1 - Luiz Gonzaga
• Forró no Escuro - Luiz Gonzaga
• Gaiola da Saudade - Maciel Salú
• Magalenha - Carlinhos Brown
• Numa Sala de Reboco - Luiz Gonzaga
• Oiá Eu Aqui de Novo - Gilberto Gil
• Paraíba - Luiz Gonzaga
• Procurando Tú - Olivan
• Proibibido Cochilar - Camarão
• Fim da Festa - Traditional
• Quadrilha pernambucana - Traditional
• Querer Bem - z'Bumba
• Qui Nem Jiló - Luiz Gonzaga
• Sabiá lá na Gaiola - Oswaldinho do Acordeon
• Sebastiana - Jackson do Pandeiro
• Tenha Dó - Camarão
• Tive Razão - Seu Jorge
• Xodo Beleza - Elba Ramalho
• Xote das Meninas - Luiz Gonzaga

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