"Featuring 20+ groundbreaking artists from Rio’s resurgent music scene, intent on bringing an avant-garde edge to bossa nova, samba, jazz and funk

Hidden Waters is our homage to a Rio de Janeiro music scene that has been bursting with creativity and camaraderie over the past decade. Centred around a pool of artists, poets, and musical innovators who flow between collaborative works and individual passion projects, this scene’s collective power has prompted a sea-change within carioca counterculture. Reclaiming derelict spaces and dissident sounds, they are now making ripples tantamount to musical revolution, finding admirers across the waters in the New York Times, The Wire and even at the Latin Grammys.

Theirs is the sound of contemporary Rio, marked by a hybridity that pools the popular and avant-garde, the cutting-edge and carnal, with echoes of everything from Tropicália, samba, disco and Candomblé to lo-fi rock, jazz, bossa nova and experimental electronics.

Hidden Waters features such musicians as iconic scene mainstays Negro Leo, Ava Rocha and Kassin, Brazilian jazz upstart Antônio Neves, critically-lauded avant-pop trailblazer Thiago Nassif, breakthrough artists Ana Frango Elétrico and Letrux, lo-fi psych rocker Lê Almeida, and sonic explorer Cadú Tenorio, as well as revelatory new voices Raquel Dimantas and ROSABEGE, among many others.

FROM HIDDEN WATERS,
A NEW WAVE IS RISING."

1. Ana Frango Elétrico – Saudade

2. Pedro Fonte – Clichê

3. Bala Desejo - Lua Comanche

4. Ava Rocha - Boca do Céu*

5. Exército de Bebês - Avós da Experiência

6. Thiago Nassif - Soar Estranho (feat. Arto Lindsay, Vinicius Cantuária & Gabriela Riley)

7. Negro Leo – Mulato

8. Mari Romano – Amélie

9. ROSABEGE - SIGO NUM SITE / MÁRMORE

10. Dora Morelenbaum - Vento de Beirada

11. Cadu Tenório & Juçara Marçal - Candombe - La Cacundê Iauê

2. Jonas Sa – Gigolô

13 Troá – Bandeide

14. Marcelo Callado - Simbora (feat. Silvia Machete)

15. Ovo Ou Bicho – Moços

16. Lê Almeida - Apreço Antigo

17. Vovô Bebê - Briga de Família (feat. Ana Frango)

18. Joana Queiroz - Dois Litorais

19. Raquel Dimantas - Flecha Azul

20. António Neves & Thiaguinho Silva - Das Neves

21. Letrux - Dorme Com Essa

22. Os Ritmistas - Sambolero

“To call Hidden Waters a passion project would be an understatement; its existence feels absolutely vital. The vibrant scene of Rio artists that has captivated us over the last decade has now seeped beyond the walls of studios, record stores and art spaces, and begun to change Brazilian music irrevocably. These musicians already sound classic, canonical – they demand serious attention. And so, it was beyond a pleasure pooling together the 23 tracks, 2 essays, extensive artists’ notes and artwork that make up this 2xLP compilation.

This is your chance to discover critically acclaimed artists like Negro Leo, Ava Rocha, Thiago Nassif, Letrux and Ana Frango Elétrico, who have found admirers across the waters in the shape of The Wire, New York Times, and even at the Latin Grammys. Explore underground icons like lo-fi rock legend (and occasional Built to Spill member) Lê Almeida, experimental sound artist Cadú Tenorio and contemporary reed player Joana Queiroz. And get acquainted with revelatory new artists like avant-pop auteurs ROSABEGE, art-rock outfit Ovo Ou Bicho and jazz upstart Antônio Neves.

The musicians on Hidden Waters comprise a collective of friends and family who, in the vein of late-sixties tropicalistas, are constantly collaborating – writing for each other, playing with each other, inspiring each other. Keeping it in the family, our artwork is designed by Karina Yamane and Caio Paiva, who have created some of the scene’s most stunning album covers, and we believe have done the same for us. The album comes with a sleeve insert of two essays written by eminent music journalist Leonardo Lichote and professor and critic Bernardo Oliveira, and extensive track-by-track notes written by the participating artists, as well as gorgeous gatefold artwork, and perks, all designed by Caio Paiva and Karina Yamane.”