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Freedom of movement

Nina Miranda
Discos: Pop

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Sello Six Degrees
Estilo Pop
Año de Edición Original 2017

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Nina Miranda (voz, teclados, percusión, efectos, programaciones)

Ben Hadwen o Diana Horta Popoff (flauta), Max Grunhard (saxo), William James Summers (cromormo, saxo piccolo, flauta), Scott Baylis (trompeta, teclados), Tony Hayden (trombón), Chris Franck (teclados, guitarra, bajo, percusión, programaciones), Xaver Fischer o Gareth Finnegan (teclados), Mario Bakuna (guitarra, coros), Felipe Couto o Alex Kingsbury (guitarra), Charlie Jackson (guitarra, bajo, teclados, programaciones), Kassin (bajo, guitarra, coros), Jansen Santana (bajo, percusión, coros), Ch Straatmann (bajo, coros), Krishan Frehse (bajo), Sam Kelly o Hendrik Smock (batería), Helder Pack (batería, coros), Anselmo Netto (percusión, viola caipira, bandolim, coros), Domenico Lancellotti (batería, coros), Peu Murray (percusión, coros), Felix Miranda-Franck, Jaelee Small, Georgie, Burl Elvin y Penny Embden (coros), Chico César, Livia Rangel, Patricia Castillo, Henrique Pio, Fred D'Oray, Kari Bannerman, Rilene de Souza y Wakay Cícero Pontes (voces), Abigail Dance y Alix McAlister (violín).

Participación especial de: Antony Elvin (voz, guitarra, bajo, percusión, glockenspiel).

Edición en formato Digipack.

Primer disco solo de la cantante y compositora Nina Miranda (Brasília D.F., 1970), conocida internacionalmente como vocalista de Smoke City, grupo formado en 1997 a raíz del enorme éxito internacional de la canción "Underwater love" como fondo musical de una publicidad de pantalones tejanos. La curiosa canción, entre hip hop y bossa nova, cantada en portugués, fue incluida en varios recopilatorios de chill-out en todo el Mundo. Posteriormente, participó en proyectos como Da Lata, en el poético Shrift (con el productor Dennis Wheatley) o en el más folk Zeep (a duo con Chris Franck, entonces su marido, también exmiembro de Smoke City). Ahora, ya en solitario, vuelve a la carga con otra original fusión de música brasileña con varios estilos pop y electrónica.

"Nina Miranda has spent most of her life living in Brazil and London; her hotly awaited, first solo album is bursting with the dissonance and freedom of that experience.
Perhaps best known as the vocalist for the UK based ensemble Smoke City, which began with DJ Producer Marc Brown and Nina and their hit, "Underwater Love" (with the help of Michel Gondry's Levi's advert in 1997, entitled 'Mermaids'), creating a worldwide sensation and paving the way for a new cross-cultural, genre-defying, underground to overground pop-sensibility. Smoke City grew when joined by multi-instrumentalist Chris Franck and sometimes collaborator DJ Patrick Forge.
Miranda later joined Da Lata and became lead singer of the bands Shrift and Zeep. An integral member of the Trip Hop, Electronica, Brazilian and World Music scenes of the nineties, noughties and to date, Miranda has collaborated with numerous artists, including Nitin Sawhney, Basement Jaxx, Bebel Gilberto, Jah Wobble, Nação Zumbi, Baaba Maal, Troubleman, Seu Jorge & Gilles Peterson.
Nina's music has been heard in film and television soundtracks worldwide, resulting in a cult following of fans who will be thrilled to see her stepping out solo with this voluminous, passionate offering of plurality and wonder.
Freedom of Movement showcases a confection of influences: traditional rhythms of Bahia juxtaposed with urban bass-lines, the atmosphere of 1970s Santana & Osibisa is channelled along with the valorous grooves of Earth Wind & Fire and Sly & Robbie, the free spirit of les dames Grace Jones and Rita Lee, and the urban bite of The Specials and Ian Dury & The Blockheads.
This solo outing also shows its political teeth, with a conscious galvanic call to action at this crucial time in our collective history. Finally out on her own, one of our finest vocalists marks herself as a singular talent, demonstrating that her international edge is more crucial than ever."

"The album’s free-spirited sunniness conceals complex emotional undercurrents" WIRE Magazine

"Nina Miranda celebrates connections. Forging resistance through creation, she sketches new possibilities and imagined musical geographies." Saatchi Magazine

“Using the beauty and gentleness of one language and the brevity and directness of the other to paint a picture of living and loving in two cultures…. t’s an album that revels in experimentation, but doesn’t shy away from embracing tradition. It’s Miranda building bridges between cultures (...)" Bandcamp Weekly

"… You could say that Smoke City's one-time singer couldn't go wrong with a raft of musicians from the likes of Ibibio Sound Machine and Da Lata. But it's marshalling all these talents and getting them to do your thing rather than theirs, that's to be admired. This is an extremely classy global fusion pop record." Songlines Magazine

"I love the psyche flavour... Very talented woman...all these different, interesting influences creating a kind of lovely, sonic melange." Lauren Laverne BBC Radio 6

Temas

CD 1
1
Capoeira 2020
Nina Miranda - Charlie Jackson - Anselmo Netto
2
Play
Nina Miranda - Anselmo Netto - Jansen Santana - Kari Bannerman - Peu Meurray
3
Marshmellow dreams
Chris Franck - Nina Miranda
4
Megalopolis skit
Nina Miranda
5
Whole of London
Antony Elvin - Nina Miranda
Nina Miranda & Antony Elvin
6
The cage
Nina Miranda - Alexandre Kassin - Domenico Lancellotti - Dan Parry
7
The garden
Nina Miranda - Alexandre Kassin - Domenico Lancellotti
8
I am
Chris Franck - Nina Miranda - Dan Parry
9
Feminist man
Felipe Couto - Nina Miranda
10
Silken horse
Nina Miranda - Ch Straatmann - Mario Bakuna - Anselmo Netto
11
Julia
John Lennon - Paul McCartney
12
Amazônia amor
Nina Miranda - Alex Kingsbury
13
The surger
Xaver Fiischer - Krischan Frehse . Hendrik Smock - Nina Miranda
14
Soundtrack to 'Venus night boat'
Nina Miranda
15
Lost in Manchester
Nina Miranda - Charlie Jackson