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Boston Globe, CD Review >>
Six musicians from northeastern Brazil integrate local musical styles -- forró, coco, maracatú, baião -- into a crazy collage that's as much a lesson on how to preserve traditions as on how to mix them up. This pleasingly agitated collection lives up to its title, which translates as ''sleeping prohibited," and then some. Though the African beats and assorted whoops and hollers evoke late nights on the region's sugar plantations and farms, it's also easy to imagine most of these tracks remixed by a deep-house DJ. Cabruêra means ''group of goats," which well suits this omnivorous crew. Leader Arthur Pessoa, a cultural anthropologist, rubs a ballpoint pen on the strings of his guitar for a hypnotic, propulsive sound inspired by the Guarani indigenous people; on one track, vocalist Zé Guilherme, a Buddhist and art professor, incants excerpts from ''Dialectic of Enlightenment," by the modernist philosophers Horkheimer and Adorno. Critical theory never sounded so good. 01/20/06 >> go there
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