Afro-Brazilian musical roots mixed with Funk and Jazz

10 MP3 Songs in this album (44:36) !
Related styles: WORLD: Afro-Brazilian, URBAN/R&B: Funk

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The season gives the taste. If the mixture of the ingredients is well done, the flavor becomes even more special. This analogy can also be applied to the hearing. Vowing to induce sensations which mobilize all senses, the Brazilian band Iyexá presents itself as the newest delicacy to be added to the international music menu.

The ingredients are all well known, but the recipe is original. To combine the diverse rhythms played in its homeland, Bahia â the Reconcavoâs Chula, the afoxés Ijexá and the percussion from the afro blocks â with pop, black music, jazz and electronic is what this band intends. Iyexá is formed by young musicians, though experienced ones, with playing experiences of having performed with great Brazilian and International artists.

For a year, the band performed on a monthly basis in âSala Bikiniâ, one of the best musical rooms in Europe, by which have passed names like Jack Johnson, Green Day, Ben Harper, Shakira, amongst other important artists. In 2006, they performed in some very important musical festivals, such as: the 17o Festival Voll Damm de Jazz y Música Creativa, the 6o Brasil Noar (Festival Internacional de la Nueva Arte Brasileña) and the Festival of World Cultures, in Dublin, Ireland. Moreover, they have gone around Spain along with the musical tour of the âSOS Racismâ NGO, which demands the rights for immigrants to vote.

For those who want to try this new taste, good news: Iyexáâs debut CD, after almost one year of development, is already for sale in brazilian and european stores. Produced in Santiago de Compostela, Barcelona, Salvador and São Paulo, the CD is launched in Brazil by the label âCavaleiros de Jorgeâ (Eldorado/TRAMA), of the awarded producer and artist J. Velloso.

Without losing sight the cosmopolitan and contemporary flow, this first work reflects the roots of the âafro-baianaâ music, in own and all-new song-writings, as well as in the songsâ performances, also brand new, of some Bahia composers.

The band nameâs inspiration came from âIjexáâ, an African rhythm brought to Bahia by the first slaves. It was used in the rituals of âCandombléâ and popularized by the âAfoxésâ (carnival blocks associated with the âCandombléâ), amongst which the âFilhos de Gandhyâ (Sons of Gandhy) is the most representative. If âIjexáâ is the base of the bandsâ works and is present, not only in the name, but also throughout the songs, nothing would be more fair than, in Iyexáâs first CD, to pay tribute to the âFilhos de Gandhyâ, main responsible for this music popularization and for having kept it alive up to today.