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Every year, the SXSW Music Festival serves a daunting, days-long feast of sounds from around the world. And once again, NPR Music's Austin 100 is here to distill it all down to a digestible meal of music discovery. Picked from a playlist that spanned...

A brief chronology of the history of Soul Funk tupiniquim (Brazuca). Wanting to be fair I make it clear that everything related materials was taken from newspapers, books and magazines. What I propose is a reflection on the subject since with the trivialization...

Just months away from completing his first solo album in decades, the prolific arranger, producer, synthesizer pioneer and Brazilian “studio wizard” Lincoln Olivetti died as a result of multiple organ failure on January 14, 2015, at the age of sixty...

What if Donny Osmond grew up to became Neil Young? That’s not exactly the North American equivalent of what happened to Brazilian singer-songwriter Erasmo Carlos. But a trio of reissues from Light in the Attic gives us the example of a musician who grew...

"Soul Jazz Records' new release is the first album ever outside of Spain to seriously focus on the history of Gipsy Rhumba, one of the most interesting musical culture clashes ever that first took place in the early 1960s. Here in the Catalan region...