Negro Leo: “Rela” [ft. May Tuti]

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Over the previous decade, Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Negro Leo has united a transparent dedication to working class politics with surrealist soundscapes and storytelling, following within the footsteps of the Tropicalists and Vanguarda Paulista and carving out an necessary area of interest inside the nation’s experimental music scene. A lot of his work—like a biting noise rock collaboration that inaugurated the unbiased label QTV—has been engaged with escalating political wrestle extending from the 2014 financial recession to the rise of far-right chief Jair Bolsonaro. However on the finish of 2022, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva regained the presidency in an enormous electoral win for Brazil’s Employee’s Occasion—and maybe correspondingly, the beatific psychedelia of Leo’s newest single, “Rela,” appears to replicate a extra optimistic future. Over a pulsating two-chord development, Leo and singer Might Tuti repeat phrases in falsetto, their voices drifting out and in like apparitions. The percussion begins as a splash of shuffling ganzá, a smattering of kicks, and a clap doused in echo. However then arpeggiated synths, cowbells, and shakers accumulate into euphoric polyrhythms, ushering in what looks like a blissful new starting. 

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