Pre-order of Natacha Fink - Pirarublue. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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releases May 3, 2024
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited edition black 7” vinyl. Sticky Buttons puts these two outlying works together for a unique listening experience, combining the human and more-than-human experience of life at the heart of the Amazon.
Includes digital pre-order of Natacha Fink - Pirarublue.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Super limited 7inch Test Pressing vinyl straight from the plant. Generic black sticker with green sleeve. Own a piece of history! Ships immediately!
Includes digital pre-order of Natacha Fink - Pirarublue.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases May 3, 2024
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Poster/Print
Beautiful double sided risograph poster designed in collaboration with Callen Naesmith.
Archival style lyrics and visual glossary celebrating the unique Brazilian Amazonian cultural and ecological references from Natacha Fink's Pirarublue.
A3 portrait on premium 175gsm paper. Price includes delivery.
Eu logo pensei que não era real talvez fosse um barato baré misturar tuchaua com pajé
não foi uma idéia magistral?
se carapa (inda será) anã
se cará (inda será) açu
são questões de todo vãs
oh, yeah!
a mensagem que eu deixo a ti
é que:
se pirarucu por que não piramutar e curupirarmos por completo
a ti eu deixo um pium
ao poder eu deixo um pum Furibunda...,eu
a ti feliz eu deixo...
a eles, furibunda eu deixo
um pum
Irresistible Brazilian blues reggae from the heart of the Amazon rainforest. A psychedelic guarana induced trip and ode to the fading indigenous cultures and shifting hegemony in Brazil.
This one-off release by Manaus native Natacha Fink was originally written in 1986 as the lead track on NOSSA MUSICA - a compilation celebrating regional music from the Amazon. Emerging out of the dictatorship, Natacha and her fellow artists rejected the aesthetic standards driven by internal colonialism and sought out new ways to express themselves away from the styles of the dominant Rio-São Paulo axis. What surfaced was a melodic blend of genres, with Natacha’s haunting vocals and playful lyrics gliding over an arrangement of guitars and double bass. Vocal backing is led by Torrinho, well known for his layered composition style, whose song ‘Porto de Lenha’ is recognised throughout Amazonas as an unofficial anthem.
Hidden within the Amazon, Pirarublue lies in that wonderful space between innocence and honesty. Proudly exploring cultural and ecological spaces through a refreshing, ghostly infectious groove. For fans of Gal Costa, Elis Regina, Chico César, Jorge Ben Jor and Joni Mitchell.
Accompanying Natacha’s beguiling single is the field recording “Unseen Songlines” by artist and academic Nimalan Yoganathan. The composition immerses the listener in the soundscapes of Mamori Lake, a remote village inside the Brazilian Amazon. Nimalan explores the ambiguous perception of sounds emanating from the dense rainforest and deep beneath the Amazon River, where we hear the sounds but cannot see their sources: an acousmatic concert performed by the rainforest itself. Processed field recordings of birds and frogs, as well as underwater hydrophone recordings of dolphins and fish subtly weave throughout electroacoustic textures and beats. The listener is invited to hone in on the musical subtleties hidden throughout the environment. The compositional methods employed in this piece draw on the concepts of sonic rupture, presence, absence and memory found in the dub music tradition.
credits
releases May 3, 2024
A1. Natacha Fink - Pirarublue
Written by Natacha Fink & Fabico
Lead Vocals & Ovation: Natacha Fink
Vocals: Torrinho, Wandler Cuna e José Bernardo
Contrabaixo: José Bernardo
Guitarra: Ronaldo Uchôa
Bateria: Almir
B1. Nimalan Yoganathan - Unseen Songlines
Audio Restoration to A1 by Colin Young
Mastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, London
Cover Illustration by Ke Sun
Special Thanks to Barbi Caparica, Aguida Martins
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