Lounge jazz tropicalia with feather-light glass harp sounds and travel impressions from Morocco and Ethiopia.
Briefly opened the history book: “Barbapapa” was a French animated series from the 1970s. The slightly pear-shaped head of the family is said to have been born like a flower in the garden and could transform into all possible shapes. A kind of Stone Age Pokémon with all good qualities, except that you didn’t have to feed it.
We don’t know exactly what Os Barbapapas, the four-piece band from São Paulo, has in common with the garden family from television, but they dedicate a gently bouncy instrumental anthem to “Suculenta” on their new album, in which a self-born
On ENIGMA, rhythms from the northeast of Brazil combine with memories of Gnawa sounds with Afro-Cuban and Ethio Jazz elements to create airy excursions that always sound like they were conjured up. Hardly anything that Tropicalia or Afrojazz lovers have been able to get to know so far. Fusion far from any effort. And “Caminho Para Itiwawa” sounds so casual and friendly that one would recommend it to the original Barbapapas as house and court music.