| Meta Meta / Metal Metal |
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| Album: | Metal Metal | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Meta Meta | Added: | Nov 2015 | |
| Label: | Mais Um Discos | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2015-11-29 | Pull Date: | 2016-01-31 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Jan 24 | Jan 17 | Jan 10 | Jan 3 | Dec 27 | Dec 20 | Dec 13 | Dec 6 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 30, 2021: | Music Casserole (rebroadcast from Dec 26, 2015) Sao Paolo No Shaking | 4. | Mar 22, 2018: | Melange Oya | |
| 2. | Oct 16, 2021: | Music Casserole (rebroadcast from Dec 19, 2015) Man Feriman | 5. | Jul 07, 2017: | Clean Copper Radio Orunmila | |
| 3. | Jun 21, 2018: | Melange Oya | 6. | Dec 29, 2016: | Melange Oya |
| Album Review |
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| Margy Kahn Reviewed 2015-11-25 | ||
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Interesting fusion from the north of Brazil; lots of African influence. Guardian newspaper reviewer calls it “punky, jazzy, danceable” and gives it four stars. Has every sort of sound effect along with quite competent singing and playing; extremely innovative and listenable NO FCC's (singing is in Portuguese) 1-Exu – 1:49 weird sounds, weird instruments, interesting **2-Orunmila – 4:04- starts with horn riff, Portuguese female singer, great jazz feel; modulated phrases; interesting beat; tapers off to horn riffs, great playing, back to singing; lots to listen and groove to *3-Man Feriman --7:32 – starts with repetitive hypnotic phrase by synths; female singer comes in; some horn work, tapers off nicely **4-Cobra Rastera -4:30-- starts more conventionally with Latin dance rhythm; sweet sound with singers and flute *5-Sao Jorge -3:35 – weird synthy sounds again, back to Africa and then into Portuguese; polyrythmic textures **6-Oya-5:24- great interplay between singer and accompaniment; sophisticated; this appears to be an invocation of the great Yoruba goddess of storms and tempests (cf same title on “Ibeyi”); gathers strength and intensity as it proceeds 7-Sao Paolo No Shaking -3:55 – starts with drumming and weird synth sounds (like geckos?); definitely jungly, some English in the middle about mixing up white and black music; definitely makes you want to dance *8-Logun—7:57- nice simple guitar chords at beginning; maybe with some African harp (kora); drums come in with bass; singer comes in; African mixed with jazz; turns metal, and then lightens up; lots of texture and variation; never stops moving forward *9-Rainha das Cabecas -3:51 – intricate guitar, bass, and vocals; recognizable as Brazilian in the style of Astrud Gilberto but very amped up; drum solos; segues to intense jazz undergirded with Latin rhythm *10—Alakoro—4:25-- starts with light, treble percussion; horn comes in; catchy; alto singer comes in *11—Tristeza Nao—2:15-- alto singer sandwiched between alto horn and bass guitar | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Exu | 6. | Oya | |||
| 2. | Orunmila | 7. | Sao Paolo No Shaking | |||
| 3. | Man Feriman | 8. | Logun | |||
| 4. | Cobra Rastera | 9. | Rainha Das Cabecas | |||
| 5. | Sao Jorge | 10. | Alakoro | |||
| 11. | Tristeza Nao | |||||