Mundo Civilizado

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:40:07
Personnel: Arto Lindsay (vocals); Vinicius Cantuaria (guitar, tamborims, pandeiro, surdo, maos em papelao); Romero Lubambo, Amedeo Pace, Marc Ribot (guitar); Jacques Morelenbaum (cello); Roy Nathanson (saxophone); Don Byron (bass clarinet); Camus Celli (toy accordion); Marcus Rojas (tuba); Andres Levin (acoustic & electric piano, Wurlitzer); Bernie Worrell (Hammond B-3 organ); Peter Scherer (Wurlitzer piano, Farfisa organ, keyboards); Melvin Gibbs (bass); Dougie Bowne (drums, loops); Gustavo de Dalva (surdos, triangle, caixas, bacurinha, djembe, timbau, surdo na mao, percussion); Boghan, Marcios Tchin (surdos, caixas, bacurinha, triangle, djembe); Mutamassik, DJ Spooky (samples).
Recorded at WR Studios in Salvador, Bahia; Svuga Svuga, Brooklyn and Platinum Island, Manhattan.
Since the '70s, this longtime mainstay of New York's downtown scene has dedicated himself to exploring previously uncharted realms of noise guitar and contributed his skronk to many a project. Meanwhile, having produced records for Caetano Veloso and Marisa Monte, and translated lyrics for other Brazilian artists, Lindsay has become something of a musical missionary, bringing new sounds back and forth across the equator. While these contributions may appear at first irreconcilable, Lindsay has managed the task with a certain nerdy grace. Having dipped his toes in the water with the band Ambitious Lovers, Lindsay now fully bares the Brazilian influence. On MUNDO CIVILAZADO, he welds neurotic-romantic lyrics to the understated punch of the bossa nova: "In all its innocence, my samba/ may be hiding some malice." Elsewhere, he creates hybrids all his own by blending samples, abstract noise, and lush instrumentation together with his own wry vocals, which often walk a fine line between the ironic and the sincere.