BRAZILIAN CD RELEASE!

…Sonantes featuring Starbucks/Six Degrees breakout artist CéU in collaboration with members of Brazilian groups Nação Zumbi and Instituto. Guest stars include Siba, Lucio Maia, Beto Villares, Apollo 9, and more.

Sonantes – Out on May 20th on Six Degrees Records

As Brazil celebrates its 50th anniversary of bossa nova music in 2008, there continues to be a streaming output of new talent and innovation from this rich musical country. A perfect example is Sonantes, a São Paolo based musical collective featuring the vocal talents of CéU in collaboration with members of Brazilian groups Nação Zumbi and Instituto. Guest stars include Siba, Lucio Maia, Beto Villares, Apollo 9, and more.

In between touring the world in support of her debut album, CéU continued to work with local musicians and friends to create a new album and project called Sonantes. For this project, she needed to look no further than her own back yard: her neighborhood, São Paolo’s Perdizes quarter, home to brothers Gui Amabis (an accomplished composer and producer of film music, including the scores to Andrew Niccols’ Lord of War and James Foley’s Perfect Stranger) and Rica Amabis (a member of the São Paolo band Instituto and an acclaimed soundtrack composer in his own right), as well as the duo Denge and Pupillo (bassist and drummer, respectively, for Nação Zumbi, Brazil’s most popular rock band). Only in Brazil is one likely to find this kind of talent in this small an area, and it is difficult to imagine any country other than Brazil giving rise to a sound like what was created when this group of friends began making music together.

Free download available at: www.sixdegreesrecords.com/sonantes.php

To stream the full album on imeem go to: www.imeem.com/sonantes