Tribalistas, Carlinhos Brown
Tribalistas, Carlito Marrón

LA RECENSIONE

When summer ends, you can't help but think back on the music that, whether you wanted it or not, served as the soundtrack, earworms included.
And you can say what you will for better or worse about Tribalistas, but for sure everyone will agree that besides the insipid "Chihuahua" and the annoying "Canzone del capitano," even "Já sei namorar" was played so much that it was already irritating by July; but among the three songs, this one was considered the "intelligent" hit (one should then reflect on the meaning of intelligent attributed to something that by definition torments you!).

Alright, for this year I decide to give 15 euros to those who will torment me for the entire summer season: I was curious to understand what lay beyond the single: after all, many had already talked and written well about it.
So I get into the car with my new CD and drive for many kilometers along the Adriatic. But no matter how much I tried to use my imagination, the pleasant beach never turned into Bahia; though Monte Conero might rival with its beauty the Sugarloaf Mountain or the Romagna beach had often matched the quality of the famous Brazilian behinds and the heat was the same, or even more!...
The music from this CD did not evoke all the Brazilian atmospheres, as many other records by authors from that country had managed to do before!

Specifically, the album, conceived by an important artistic partnership (Marisa Monte, Carlinhos Brown, and Arnaldo Antunes), is already pleasant from the first listen, the sounds captivating, the arrangements never over the top, the ideas simple but spot on, the worldwide success (and credit to them also for the courageous decision not to ride the wave of their success but to have already returned to their work as single artists)... nevertheless, the album lacks the artistic flair, the "crazy" find, the mood that elevates it, in short, that something that would have made it a great album and in the end, after a critical listen, the best track turns out to be for the extreme, precisely "Já sei namorar."

But at the same time as the Tribalistas project, the percussionist of the three, Carlinhos Brown, a musician always present in the soundtracks of Bahia carnivals, unveils his Spanish alter ego Carlitos Marrón and releases an album full of truly Brazilian sounds, with percussion that playfully chases each other and projects you into the best carnival atmospheres and at this point my car, thanks to the suffocating heat and the music blasting, becomes the liveliest sambodrome of the entire Marche coast.
On the occasion, I had also called for the right atmosphere a Brazilian twenty-five-year-old friend, who, however, after finishing the album, thanked me and left taking the CD with her!!! (twenty-five, Brazilian, and I played her a CD: can you imagine!)

But even this album remains appealing halfway, because if all the first part is modern, "Europeanized," contaminated, the second part falls several times into the footsteps of more traditional and already heard sounds.

Anyway, for my next trip to Brazil I already know that I will buy another copy of this CD... in the face of the twenty-five-year-old!