Cordel do Fogo Encantado is a Brazilian band from
Arcoverde
Arcoverde (''Green Bow'') is a municipality in Pernambuco, Brazil. It is located in the mesoregion of ''Sertão Pernambucano'' . Arcoverde has a total area of 353.4 square kilometers and had an estimated population of 74,822 inhabitants in 2020 acc ...
who mix different Brazilian musical genres, such as
samba de côco,
toré indígena,
embolada, and
reisado, with
pop-rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, ear ...
melodies. The band derives its name from
cordel, a type of handmade illustrated
pamphlet literature made by
woodcut
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artists in northeastern Brazil. Cordel do Fogo Encantado is associated with
Pernambuco
Pernambuco () is a States of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it List of Brazilian states by population, sev ...
's
Mangue Beat
The mangue bit or manguebeat movement is a cultural movement created circa 1991 in the city of Recife in Northeast Brazil in reaction to the cultural and economic stagnation of the city. The movement largely focuses on music, but it has its own fas ...
, a musical movement that is repopularizing traditional northeastern Brazilian folkloric musical genres by mixing them with rock and funk music.
Their album ''Viagem ao Coração do Sol'' was ranked as the 36th best Brazilian album of 2018 by the Brazilian edition of ''
Rolling Stone
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'' magazine
and among the 25 best Brazilian albums of the second half of 2018 by the
São Paulo Association of Art Critics
SAO or Sao may refer to:
Places
* Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD
* Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso
* Saco Transportation Center (station code SAO), a train station in Saco, Maine, U. ...
.
Discography
* Cordel do Fogo Encantado (2001)
* O Palhaço do Circo Sem Futuro (2003)
* Transfiguração (2006)
* Viagem ao Coração do Sol (2018)
See also
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Chico Science
Francisco de Assis França (March 13, 1966 – February 2, 1997), better known as Chico Science, was a Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the manguebeat cultural movement. He died in a car accident in 1997 in Recife, Perna ...
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Mangue Beat
The mangue bit or manguebeat movement is a cultural movement created circa 1991 in the city of Recife in Northeast Brazil in reaction to the cultural and economic stagnation of the city. The movement largely focuses on music, but it has its own fas ...
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Nação Zumbi
Nação Zumbi (formerly Chico Science & Nação Zumbi) is a Brazilian band formed by Chico Science. They have been hailed as one of the most important groups to come out of the manguebeat movement in the 1990s. The musicians of the group continued ...
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Brazilian rock
Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese language, Portuguese. In the 1960s it was known as , from the Portuguese transcription of the line "Yeah, yeah, yeah" from the Beatles song "She Loves You".
Ov ...
References
External links
Band website
Brazilian musical groups
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