arnaud rodrigues: murituri
Francisco Espregueira
Originally released on Continental Records in Brazil in 1974, Arnaud Rodrigues’s Murituri is reissued across the Atlantic Ocean by Lisbon-based label Groovie Records. Including arrangements from artists like Octavio and Arthur Verocai, the LP hails the creativity of a young Arnaud Rodrigues dominating the words, the expressions, in that beautiful brazilian accent.
Murituri flows brazilian-way in a variety of genres: 70’s funk, samba jazz, psychadelic rock, soul. In the end it really doesn’t matter to put a genre tag on this masterpiece… It drives through feet-stomping-on-the-floor moments to eyes-in-the-skies pleads. And Arnaud Rodrigues travels 45 years to sing words that are not limited by the boundaries of time. The Murituri LP is an extremely rare record that now is available through Groovie Records in a vinyl format.
“(...) a queda é muito grande
quem dançou, dançou.”