I love Brazilian music. It is everything good that music should be. I’m not a critic and I don’t claim to be able to understand too much about it, but I do know that it sounds damn good. I also understand how listening to samba while commuting to work in the icy winter just does not work. It feels all wrong.

Enter Seu Jorge. The name may seem familiar. He’s played roles in both ‘City of God’ and Bill Murray/Wes Anderson/et. al’s ‘The Life Aquatic’ and did some amazing remakes of David Bowie classics in the latter. If you haven’t yet, definitely check out both movies and these remakes: Rebel Rebel and Life on Mars.

The Life Aquatic Studio Session featuring Seu Jorge

I definitely don’t want to portray him as a remake artist; he’s done a lot more, but this is how you might commonly know him. He is as much samba artist as he is an convention-free experimentalist, and the results are amazing. Here he is describing more about what he does:

And now he’s back with a posse. Seu Jorge & Almaz recently released their first self-titled album and have dropped conventions by the wayside. In addition to original music they have remade Kraftwerk and Michael Jackson (‘Rock with You’). The New York Times says it “is an album of covers of Brazilian, American and European music from the ’70s: floppy and spacey, a bit like a demo, charming and terribly hip…”

Seu Jorge & Almaz

These guys bring Brazilian music to the world. It may sound strange at first. But listen a couple times through and you’ll start to get it.

Learn more about Seu Jorge here:

http://munchiegonetoheaven1.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/seu-jorge/

Check out the band’s website and buy their album here:

http://seujorgealmaz.com/