Fonte: New York Times

“Música do Brasil” is a four-disc survey of traditional music from across Brazil, field-recorded in the late 1990s. Released by the multimedia company Abril, which also produced a television series on the same theme, it has a staggering depth and variety of singing, string playing, drumming, sacred music and party music. If you are lucky enough to hear it, you will understand how this country’s pop vanguard will never lack ideas from its roots. (The set is unavailable on Amazon, but keep looking.) The musician and producer Beto Villares helped compile “Música do Brasil,” and his own first album, “Beto Villares” — made in 2003 but just released here by Six Degrees — reveals his perfect sense of security about matching electronics, pop and jazz with the rustic verities of Brazilian music, its bass drums, tambourines, flutes and hand claps. New and ancient co-exist happily; the tracks all have the right sense of scale. This great record should be celebrated, even if we’re celebrating it five years late."