PASSE, by Oruã

PASSE

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1.	Real Grandeza 03:51	lyrics	buy track
conceitual imerso em obras afilhado adoção digo por sorte sincera a todo instante quase nunca tem fome eles te querem atenção e não entendem se você não entrar ninguém te olha de cima, poder da real grandeza
2.	Caboclo 03:08	lyrics	buy track
filhas de mês aquebrantar caboclo amor de ouro andar se me tirar do meu caboclo amor se me tirar do meu vai ter até pensei de novo não, não pode ser rebatizei considerações não vou me rebaixar pra ver, não vou torço pra levantar oba oba ô oba oba ô
3.	Nascença 04:03	lyrics	buy track
é de nascença do teu ser amar de machucar me parte o peito de pensar que a dor é natural deixa crer vou me perder num precioso ser duro demais não pensar joga pro alto faz mover
4.	Escola Construtivista 03:08	lyrics	buy track
fiz superficial e econômico pra você entender te larguei entre forças e fases do fraco enaltecer manifesto do meu desaguar soma onde pulsa o pensar afim
5.	Ramais 04:58	lyrics	buy track
desejo te toda flor, obstinações causou o tempo levou, calmô ramais de beleza armou livrai de ver livrai me de eu a todo mal privai me de ter privai me de corpo a todo mar
6.	Me Acontece 04:44	info	buy track
7.	Passe 03:07		buy track
8.	Miragem 02:53	lyrics	buy track
foi sim onde mais doeu foi sim onde mais doeu miragem aproximou raiou em tantas sombras encorajou caminho de indecisão continuar
9.	Insensatez / Abolição 03:04	lyrics	buy track
amante de poucas crenças imã de entrar na medida insensatez abolição harmonizáveis a negociações na medida em que se valem as objeções adoyê doya
10.	Análise de Conjuntura 04:37		buy track
11.	Brutos Amores 04:55	lyrics	buy track
arejar razões brutos amores não acorrentaram mais milhões de vezes conversações hoje é questão de educação seguir passar
12.	Avesso a Fim 02:18		buy track
13.	Espiritualmente Aceso 02:25	lyrics	buy track
queira que sim tanto que faz e no canto de cima entorte os insights queira ou não queira ter a de se conver a de se entender espiritualmente aceso morto de fome entregue no sol queira ou não queira ser a de se conver a de se entender queira ou não queira ser

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we will be on tour for the whole month of august. all records purchased will be sent at the end of the tour from august 26th.

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Rio de Janeiro, where the mountains dramatically merge with the sea, is riddled with contradictions. It’s a cliche to say that a city is full of contradictions, but Rio de Janeiro is not just any city. Many elements are often in opposition: the beauty of the coastline contrasting the decay of the center city; the wealth of the valleys and coastline at odds with the poverty of the hillside favelas and the periferia (periphery); the idyllic sand and surf clashing with the harsh concrete and bricks of the streets. Rio’s beauty can often act like a mirage as there’s much in opposition - poverty, injustice, and violence - often just below the surface, bubbling. It’s from this city of contradiction that the band Oruã formed at the end of 2016. A band built not out of contradiction, but from improvisation, where inspired ideas often bubble up to the surface.
It’s often at the margins of Rio where creativity flows most freely. Lê Almeida says that violence fuels this work, in contrast to his gentle demeanor that seems like he wouldn't hurt a fly. Since he was young, Lê has had several experiences where violence - that he’s witnessed or been a victim of - has been used as a source of power and control, just as it has been in Rio for centuries. Oruã’s music can be seen as a reaction or resistance to this violence, particularly during a particularly turbulent time in Brasil’s history. Oruã works out of Escritório in the Centro neighborhood, in a "somewhat forgotten" area of Rio. The space is not far from Cemitério dos Pretos Novos, a mass grave where 30,000 bodies of slaves are buried. A gruesome memory, literally under the surface, of Brazil’s long and violent history of slavery.

It’s hard to identify anything traditionally “Brazilian” about Oruã’s sound, but the band comes from a centuries-long tradition of resistance. They come from Brazil’s indigenous people defying the seizure of their land. They come from a series of slave rebellions in Brazil, which continued until slavery was finally outlawed in 1888, the last country in the Americas to do so. They come from quilombos, communities around the country that were organized by fugitive slaves. They come from the traditions of Candomblé and Umbanda, syncretic religions of African origin with strong musical components that for centuries were often practiced in secret, practitioners claiming they were Catholic to avoid persecution. (The album title “Passe” is a practice in Umbanda in which people exchange energy; it also means to pass, where “passing” is a means to avoid detection). Oruã are descendants of this history of resistance. Their music is an exchange of energy with their audience, but also an attempt “to persuade them by hook or crook,” (as Nina Simone urged) to defy the oppressors. Oruã are encouraging their audience to rise up. Against racism. Against brutality. Against state-sponsored oppression. To refute violence; seeking to live free, with equality and fellowship.

By Jeff Caltabiano

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released July 19, 2024

Recorded in Cabo Frio / Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo (Brazil) - New York / Seattle (United States) - Aalborg (Denmark)

Lê Almeida - guitars, tapes, percussion and vocals - drums on 13
Bigú Medine - bass, metallophone and vocals - synth on 13
João Casaes - synths
Karin Santa Rosa - drums
Phill Fernandes - cymbals, extra percussion in 3 and saxophone in 13
Laura Lavieri - vocals in 4
Jim Roth - guitars at 10, 11 and 13
Ana Zumpano - guitar in 13
Beeau Gomez - bass at 13

Sound engineer at 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 and mixes at 5 and 8 by André Medeiros
Mastering and cover painting by João Casaes
Engineered, mixed & produced by Lê Almeida

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Oruã Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

ORUÃ is a child of downtown, was born at night and attends the parties at dawn. A poor man’s jazz. Working-class’ krautrock. They play in Baixada Fluminense and in the United States, do not travel on tourism and have never been on an exchange program.

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