Natacha Fink - PirarublueFormat : 12" Label : Sticky Buttons Catalog # : SB004 Genre : Brazil Funk Soul Irresistible Brazilian blues reggae from the heart of the Amazon rainforest. A psychedelic guarana induced trip and ode to the fading indigenous cultures and shifting hegemony in Brazil. This one off release by Manaus native Natacha Fink was originally written in 1986 as the lead track on NOSSA MUSICA a compilation celebrating regional music from the Amazon. Emerging out of

he has lit stages on fire

The soul reference takes on a different aroma when it passes through the filter of the composer and his band – formed by Kiko Dinucci on guitar

Whilst early Chill-out rooms lacked a specific sound and were often sound-tracked by music such as reggae and soul

Label : Dekmantel

Most of the songs are reissued here for the first time and many of them were previously unavailable on vinyl

On Robot’s insistence it included a cover of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Living for the City’ (from 1973’s Innervisions) as the title track

a response to those life events—a record of grief

“Blåmerke” is then given a rework by Sam Goku who was chosen for his euphoric

is taken from Luna Llena

Accompanied by the weird early Ukrainian visual culture I was mesmerized by the music videos I saw on TV and I wanted to belong there

all spacey and mushy in its dub sauce

as well as through Japonism