So, I must be getting jaded by the blogosphere because there is less and less stuff that wow's me to the point where I need to hop on and spread the word to the 10 people that actually read this thing. But this can also serve as a note to self: "Cibelle and her "Lightworks" is so stimulating and vibrantly eccentric that she is an artist to watch out for."
I haven't heard of Cibelle prior to watching the video (for her cover of Raymond Scott's "Lightworks"/Dilla Donuts track/currently revisited by DOOM on his '09 release Born Like This), so I did some research. Cibelle has emerged from Sao Paulo, Brazil, with music that has been deemed unclassifiable, but, best as "tropical punk." She has a multitude of EP's and two full length albums The Shine of Dead Electric Leaves (2006) and Cibelle (2003). Her method has been described as "imagining a world, and then going to fulfill this world with the appropriate sounds and textures."
Her next album, Las Venus Resort Hotel, drops this Spring via Crammed Discs. Based on pictures and minimal exposure, I can best describe her (with no intention to type cast) as an M.I.A. fashioned Bebel Gilberto with a more "punk" than hip hop attitude. Although she has been performing since the age of six and her first LP was in '06, she seems fit to break in 2010.
Video here or below.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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