Caipirinha Lounge

For almost five weekends i've been working on repairing a family bakery in Benguela. Of course the trip is too long by car, but i ...

It's called Movimento and it's Aline Frazão's second album, a favorite of this blog. Aline is currently my favorite Angolan ...

Lindo. Simplesmente lindo. Não sei se gosto mais da letra, do vídeo ou da música. Geração 80 e Aline. Estão demais. É tanta luz aqui,/Que...

I've been hearing of Sergio Tannus for almost a year now but only recently did I finally have the singular pleasure of listening to hi...

O poema é do Massalo ; a música, neo-soul de leve, suave e tenra, é do Wawuti ; o desenho, lindo e acolhedor, é da Joana . E no desenho, o...

It’s a simple track really, instrumental and thus without a single lyric...unless you count Sabrina's whispers. But I find it incredib...

If A Tribe Called Quest sang in Portuguese, they would probably sound like this. E Kume Meu  is one of Coca o FSM's oldest jams, an...

Lounge favorite Dino is back, and what a return. I loved Eu e os Meus (remember Amanhã ? How could one forget?), but I'll confess that ...

For the reader that has kept coming back to this website in vain expecting some sort of update (it's been three weeks now), this podc...

I waited up for this. Fresh off the press from Geração 80 . // Madruguei à espera disso. Directamente da Geração 80 : O segundo episódio d...

Sunday night. New York. The city is calmer, more subdued. The relative quiet is pierced by the occasional honk, probably one of the many t...

I think certain songs were made for certain seasons. Aí Então is one of those songs – it was tailor-made for spring. It’s light, airy, b...

Photo by Renato Reis Mallu Magalhães is younger than me. Mallu Magalhães is younger than my brother Joel, who I consider an infant (hi J...

I get an incredible amount of music sent to me; the vast majority isn't even in Portuguese. The people that send them rarely bother to...

Photo by SESC Sorocaba Officially, Criolo is a rapper. Unofficially he is a bit of everything else. An ex-teacher who still lives in his...

After a football-filled day replete with all the raw emotions that accompany them, I'm retiring to bed with Coca o FSM echoing in my e...

This one is something special. When Coca released Apaixonado Jovem back in October I mentioned it was my favorite yet...I figured I might...

There are not many Angolan singers quite like Aline Frazão. Turn on the radio in Luanda or Lubango or Benguela on any given day and you’re...

Photo by Cláudio Lwakuti I found out about Y'akoto through a post on Luanda Jazz Festival's Facebook page . It was love at firs...

Only Aline to shake me out of this rut. I wanted to post this song when it came out, as the first single of Aline's new album. But as ...