A prodigal son of the Brazilian Northeast outbacks, street poet Zé de Riba draws his inspiration out of the cultural mix, folk myths and religious beliefs of a post-modern urban universe. Raw characters come to life in raw verses: ordinary people excluded from the current global trends, whose misery and grievances are paradoxically part of this same process, the flip-side of globalization.

Zé de Riba's musical fabric is fruit of his own experience, a fusion of traditional, grassroots rhymes and urban sounds, within which Brazilian folk culture is revisited and rediscovered, bringing up new uses for rhythms like samba, embolada, xote, coco, among others

Zé de Riba releases his first album, "Reprocesso", produced by the multi-instrumentalist genius Mano Bap.

"Reprocesso" is the result of decades of wanderings throughout the vast Brazilian territory, collecting a multiplicity of cultural references to be eventually cooked with the urban mix that a giant megalopolis like São Paulo has to offer.

Each one of the 13 tracks are small chronicles of life in the streets of Brazilian big cities, an universe of samba-punks where regional influences are "reprocessed" together with memories of de Zé de Riba's journeys into the undergrounds inhabited by drunks, drop-outs, outcasts, workers and artists. Strong lyrics devoid of make-up or fake moralism remind us of the need to fight against the stupor, in order to rebuild what has been destroyed for the sake of survival.

The album brings also illustrious guests, such as Nação Zumbi's Maracatu drummers in title-song "Reprocesso", and the rappers from Z'África Brasil (in "Oito Pilha Hum Real") joining Zé de Riba in his exploration of the streets taken by street vendors, preachers and anonymous commuters in a suburban train.