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Add to playlist: the virtuoso prog-metal-folk of Brazil’s Papangu and the week’s best new tracks
The five-piece combine traditional musical styles with mountains of synths and hurried drums – rejecting computerised production in a pointed anti-AI statement From João Pessoa, Brazil Recommended if you like Hermeto Pascoal, Mr Bungle, King Crimson Up next Celestial album released 7 August, touring the UK and Europe from 15 August Thanks in part to its famed music department at the local Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa – the easternmost city in South America – is a hotbed of artists playing different folk styles from all over the continent. Papangu sound like all of them at the same time. The five-piece blend a long list of genres: bossa nova, the circle-dance song ciranda and forró , with its dry-tuned accordion and pulsing rhythm section, plus the more ubiquitous progressive rock and extreme metal. The band’s virtuoso chops and intensity keep their songs from buckling under
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The five-piece combine traditional musical styles with mountains of synths and hurried drums – rejecting computerised production in a pointed anti-AI statement From João Pessoa, Brazil Recommended if you like Hermeto Pascoal, Mr Bungle, King Crimson Up next Celestial album released 7 August, touring the UK and Europe from 15 August Thanks in part to its famed music department at the local Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa – the easternmost city in South America – is a hotbed of artists playing different folk styles from all over the continent. Papangu sound like all of them at the same time. The five-piece blend a long list of genres: bossa nova, the circle-dance song ciranda and forró , with its dry-tuned accordion and pulsing rhythm section, plus the more ubiquitous progressive rock and extreme metal. The band’s virtuoso chops and intensity keep their songs from buckling under
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According to The Guardian’s linked item, Add to playlist: the virtuoso prog-metal-folk of Brazil’s Papangu and the week’s best new tracks, The five-piece combine traditional musical styles with mountains of synths and hurried drums – rejecting computerised production in a pointed anti-AI statement From João Pessoa, Brazil Recommended if you like Hermeto Pascoal, Mr Bungle, King Crimson Up next Celestial album released 7 August, touring the UK and Europe from 15 August Thanks in part to its famed music department at the local Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa – the easternmost city in South America – is a hotbed of artists playing different folk styles from all over the continent. Papangu sound like all of them at the same time. The five-piece blend a long list of genres: bossa nova, the circle-dance song ciranda and forró , with its dry-tuned accordion and pulsing rhythm section, plus the more ubiquitous progressive rock and extreme metal. The band’s virtuoso chops and intensity keep their songs from buckling under
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