Ricardo Dias Gomes – Muito Sol LP
The sound of modern MPB from a longtime collaborator of Caetano Veloso! Psychedelic and experimental, Ricardo Dias Gomes ‘Muito Sol’ pushes mûsica popular brasileira forward with the right amount of weirdness while still retaining an enchanting pop sensibility.
The songs, led by Gomes’ gentle and dreamy voice, are often reminiscent of classic innovators such as Caetano Veloso, João Bosco or Edu Lobo, though they take unexpected lines of flight into more experimental territory. There is also an element of drone underpinning the whole album which surfaces and takes full charge on Fllux and Transição, before the album is closed by what turns into the molten, distorted piece of raging hardcore, Coração Sulamericano, Ricardo’s expression of pride in his Latin American heritage.
Muito Sol is a sun drenched dream from start to finish and album to be bathed in.