as if Brazilians needed more incentive to get freaky

Jair Oliveira, Outro: Dor de Ressaca

Jair Oliveira, son of legendary Brazilian soul singer Jair Rodriguez, is a talented composer, singer and producer. After studying at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, he returned to Brazil and started recording albums for the Trama Label. This song, Dor de Ressaca, or Pain of a Hangover (thanks Mike D.!), is a mellow samba/r&b groove. The production would remind anybody of Babyface or any other sort of mid-90's r&b production, but the Brazilian influence adds a freshness to the sound that doesn't make it sound antiquated. Dig.

For those of you who have been digging the music and been looking for more, Trama Records is a great place to start. An artist run label, Trama is the biggest and best-known independent label in Brazil. They distribute Matador Records in Brazil, which should tell you indie rockers out there how money this label is. Many of Brazil's most innovative artists are on the Trama label, and with any luck they'll become wider-known here as well. If you want to check out some free Trama .mp3's, look no further than http://www.tramavirtual.com.br, where you'll be able to find huge numbers of slammin' trax to download.

Again, I wanna put in a request for comments. It helps keep me inspired to keep putting tracks up every few days or so if I know what people like and what they don't like.