Caipirinha Lounge

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...

Tiê, by Eduardo_Gabriel Every once in awhile you yearn for things that are as of yet unknown to you, and then when you find it you feel a...

6792-6808 sara by massalo Sara for the little kings... Sometimes crazyness comes in small packages. (...) August Day Song (King Britt Re...

Twenty-six years and three million sold albums later, the revered Portuguese band Madredeus decided to call it quits. They left behind a vas...

I learned from writer Philip Graham that Madredeus' new album, Castelos na Areia, marked the end of the band's storied career. What ...

Thiago Pethit, por Eduardo_Gabriel I chose not to have a television at home; rather, I have a rather nice sound system that plays my musi...

Absinthe Conheci esta delicia de voz e artista pela mais recente foto do Massalo. A dona da voz chama-se Beth Orton , é britânica, e a mú...

Samy Ben Redjeb, founder of the famed German label Analog Africa , is yet another man who couldn't resist the undeniable allure of vint...

  Long time Caipirinha Lounge connoisseur Becca Mateus alerted me to this article on NPR's popular website, aptly titled Funk Before Wa...

Há dias atrás escrevi um post acerca da música clássica do Ruy Mingas, o Monangambé. Transcreno na íntegra o comentário do Fernando Ribeiro,...

Sou muito jovem para perceber, para realmente entender e sentir, o verdadeiro impacto dos Ngola Ritmos. Restam-me somente as historias dos ...

O sol finalmente se fez sentir, esta tarde, em Luanda. Entre o mar de centenas de carros afogandos no asfalto esburacado da cidade, viajava ...

I have heard many beautiful songs in my life, beautiful because of their simplicity and integrity, and O Xi Não is about as beautiful as the...

In this post-World Cup hangover, my voice was hoarse from screaming in Spanish among the Spaniard revelers in Cape Town last night, Nancy Vi...

This blog on Lusophone music would be incomplete without the inclusion of Galician music. Galician, also known as Galego , is the mother ton...