Jody Gillett, the PR of the BM&A in the UK, lives in London for over 15 years working with the local independent music scene. He has worked with marketing and manages at various record companies and labels like Hannibal Records, Ryko disc, Luaka Bop, Plot, etc. Jody still edits the world music news at the site and magazine Mondomix.com (France), and while she was doing some musical researches, she sent us the following news:
The sudden success of A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade has gone beyond the borders of Brazil and went into the Jungle Drums, a site/magazine in London about Brazilian music. Click here to read the article about the band from Curitiba.
You know the Bottletop Band? It´s the musical wing of a British charity called Bottletop which supports projects in education and training of young people in Brazil, Malawi, Rwanda, Mozambique and the UK. The project aims to unite British, American and Brazilian musicians in compilations whose sales are rolled back to charity.
The next album will feature collaborations of Brazilians Kassin, Domenico, Nina Becker and Rodrigo Amarante. To help the project, and learn more about the disc, watch the video here.
Ny the way, the ONG Bottletop has a small accessories factory in Salvador, Bahia, from where products are sold in the UK. Kate Moss, Paris Hilton and Rachel Weisz are among the client’s brand.
Some recent articles about Brazilian music at portal Mondomix (a multimedia electronic magazine, which features news from music, film, literature and arts from around the world. The printed version of Mondomix is distributed free to 740 points in France):
- The New Brazilian Music featured on a playlist of 10 videos. Among them are the inedit partnership of Gaby Amaranthos (from Pará) and Catarina Dee Jah from Pernambuco), the band Cidadão Instigado (from Ceará) and the Baiana System (from Bahia)
- The publication of the video from Seu Jorge and Almaz – project of the singer with members of Nação Zumbi – performing “Everybody Loves The Sunshine” by Roy Ayers. This show took place in March in São Paulo, after the Almaz returned from a tour of the USA and Europe.
- Red Hot + Rio 2, is the name of the new Red Hot collection, the new yorker institute which aims to raise funds to help HIV-positive people. Under the slogan “fighting AIDS through popular culture for over 20 years”, the ONG Red Hot was inspired – for the second time – in Brazil for his next release, out on June 28. In the first collection bank in 1996, figured Sting, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, George Michael, Tom Jobim, Milton Nascimento, David Byrne and others. The 2011 edition will feature Devendra Banhart, Seu Jorge, Beck, Of Montreal, Mayra Andrade, Bebel Gilberto, Prefuse 73, Vanessa da Mata, Madlib, Joyce, Os Mutantes, Aloe Blacc, Ceu, Mia Doi Todd, Carlinhos Brown and more.
