1 of 1 Cover of ten albums by Brazilian artists that stood out in 2023 Photo: Disclosure / Montage g1 Cover of ten albums by Brazilian artists that stood out in 2023 Photo: Disclosure / Montage g1
♪ REVIEW 2023 Due to the intense and incessant flow of releases of singles, EPs and albums on audio players, a trend that has consolidated in recent years with the digitalization of the record market, it has become impossible to keep up with Brazilian music production.
For this reason, any attempt to list the “best” albums of a year sounds pretentious and incomplete, jeopardizing the impossibility of listening to everything that arrives on platforms every day.
The ten albums listed by Mauro Ferreira's blog This last Friday in 2023, December 29th, are highlights in the vision of the columnist and music critic g1never the “best”, a term that encourages competition where only art and unity should prevail.
The others came close, but regardless of price, they prevailed and/or grew over time and became relevant titles in each artist's discography.
The singer from São Paulo revealed the beauty and political strength of the black art of Nei Lopes in an album of new songs by the now octogenarian Bamba from Rio.
The singer evoked the transgressive soul of Gal Costa (19452022) in an album with rock energy that became one of the modern jewels of the Brazilian discography in 2023.
In the first solo album of his career, band member Bala Quero proved himself to be a sensitive interpreter in an audiovisual recording of voice and guitar, recorded on the stairs of a building in Rio de Janeiro (RJ).
Better than silence, just an album with an unreleased recording of a show that the Bossa owner did 25 years ago. An album of excellent technical quality that showed that Samba Joãos is nobility.
The impressive melodist Carlos Lyra (19332023) left in December, but still had time to listen to this reverent tribute to the composer of so many of the finest things in Brazilian music.
This Tincoãs album was conceived in 1982 and recorded in 1983 and remained unreleased for 40 years. But it was finally released and was intoxicating with its mix of AfroBrazilian vocals with North American gospel.
The samba singer from Rio brought the Bahian composer's work to the stage and made Caetano's songs sound as if he were in the pagoda. It worked and sounded beautiful. Xande sings Caetano inside and outside of the samba.
In a powerful album, Ludmilla presented a mix of funk, trap and R&B. Without having to miss out on the pagoda tour Numanicethe artist from Rio de Janeiro seductively greeted the pop world.
In the most cohesive album of the last decade of Bamba Fluminense's discography, Martinho confronted death as a recurring theme in the narrative of popular opera and confirmed himself as a hero of freedom and resistance.
In the third and most interesting album, the artist from Rio highlighted a good original repertoire with creative arrangements of strings and brass. As far as orchestration goes, the album was exquisite.