Cibelle

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  • country:Brazil
  • style(s):Electronic
  • label:Crammed Discs
  • type:Band, Solo, Composer/Songwriter, DJ/Remixer
  • gender:female
  • artist posted by:Kino Music srl

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One of the most imaginative artists around, born in Sao Paulo and based in London, Cibelle first came to attention as the main vocalist on the late Suba's cult Sao Paulo Confessions album.
Her self-titled debut album came out in 2003, and immediately established her as the most talented and original young artist to come out of Brazil.
Building on its success and critical acclaim, her second album The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves incorporated a full and rich palette of instruments with captivating textural soundscapes and enchanting storytelling. It was recorded and produced by Cibelle in collaboration with coproducers Mike Lindsay (Tunng), Apollo Nove and Yann Arnaud (Air), and featured duets with Seu Jorge, Spleen and Devendra Banhart.
After two EPs, Cibelle is about to release Las Venus Resort Palace Hotel, her third album, in which she adopts the persona of Sonja Khalecallon, a singer performing with her band Los Stroboscopious Luminous at the last cabaret at the end of the world
With each album it's a whole new story, a new universe: in this one Sonja invites you to plunge into her world of warped exotica (inspired by the kitsch and pseudo-exotic style of music that was all the rage in the USA at the start of the 1960s), for a post-nuclear tropical rundown punk cabaret soundtrack of an album comprising nine originals songs and three inventive covers: Mango Tree (as sung by Ursula Andress in The James Bond film "Dr No"), Lightworks (from the eccentric Raymond Scott, a seminal exotica producer and pioneer of electronic music in the 1950s) and It's Not Easy Being Green (originally by none other than Kermit The Frog from The Muppets).

"I say I'm Brazilian and people go, woooh, that's exotic, as if I was an Amazonian swinging in leopard print from a tree like Tarzan But then I grew up thinking all Arabs were dressed like beautiful odalisque slaves from the movies... we all have fantasies about each other, even though we can travel so easily today. So I decided, you know what, exotica is awesome. And I'm going to embrace my exoticness and push it to the next level, and incorporate all that is considered ugly and cheesy and vulgar, because I'm so tired of cool cool is cold. And I like hot... I love pushing preconceptions..."

Cibelle recorded the album in her London basement, a Vancouver woodland retreat invaded by bears, a homestudio in Berlin and back in her hometown in Sao Paulo, produced together with Bjoerk's musical director Danian taylor and mixed in Los Angeles with Thom Monahan (Au Revoir Simon, Devendra Banhart).