Oruã: “Aluanda”

Rio de Janeiro’s Oruã has that silky smooth Portuguese vocal flow. You could listen to these lyrics over a jackhammer and still catch a sweet nap.

Our highlighted track “Aluanda” is only 1:20, but we had to put it on a platform so that you’d get the vibe straight off. Elsewhere on the full-length album you’ll find 70s funk textures revamped into a kind of retro Luscious Jackson-type vibration. Oruã is an archaeologist of sorts, digging up older sounds that got short shrift the first time around. It all gets recycled into hip-moving, motor-core – what the band calls “working class krautrock.”

Works for us.

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