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Artist
Claudia Dorei
12+ albums
trip hoptrip-hopfemale vocalistsdowntempobrazilian
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Claudia Dorei It ain't a trip hop trip, but the sea shore is a state of spirit. And Claudia Dorei's music has this. Liquid, sinuous, rippling, the adjectives for her can never be too harsh. This is one of the multiple magnetisms of her first - and until now, only - album, 'Respire" (Breathe). Released in 2009, it is still vital to the nem brazilian music, as the act that the album's title suggest. Singer, trumpet player, composer, Claudia likes to make it "simple and economic" as she said. And that's how she conceived her album, finding her own voice after working and studying with Denise Stoklos, a brazilian performer, Gerald Thomas, british theater director for whom she composed soundtracks, and swimming through Portishead, Bjork, Chet Baker, Kruder & Dorfeister, jazz, hip hop, dub and electronic music. Born in Rio de Janeiro, rooted in São Paulo, Claudia has breeze and urgency. Surrounded by musicians she preciously seeked, like sea shells on the sand, she recorded "Respire" in a home-made sphere, with the magic spice of Buguinha Dub (sound engineer that works with Nação Zumbi) on the mix. The result was 11 sunny, sweet, spatial, but also full of dramatic quality, songs like "Gentileza" (in honor of Prophet Gentileza - which in inglish means the Kindness Prophet, a man who used to walk around Rio de Janeiro and paint the walls with the saying that Kindness creates Kindness) and "Som", in which the flute falls in love with the beatbox. Serene, Claudia released the album
