BAHIA FANTASTICA

TRACKLIST 1. Cinco Doces 2. Princesa Do Mar 3. Ribeirao 4. Beco 5. Morte Na Bahia 6. Sete Vela 7. Aninha 8. Jardim Japao 9. General Geral 10. Elias 11. Capitao 12. Sou De Salvador INFO Originally released in 2012, the second album by the S–o Paulo-born composer Rodrigo Campos marks a turning point in both lyrical and aesthetic inspiration. šBahia Fantástica› is the result of the absorption of a then recent influence of soul music (especially Curtis Mayfield) and is in the middle of this path marked by an unlikely geography in the lyrical part (S–o Mateus, Bahia, Japan) and by an expansion of sound ( from samba to the indefinable, with a passage through black American music). The album turns ten years old in 2022 and exudes vitality. The soul reference takes on a different aroma when it passes through the filter of the composer and his band  formed by Kiko Dinucci on guitar, Marcelo Cabral on bass, Maurício Fleury on keyboards, Maurício Takara on drums and Thiago França on sax: it has Brazilian sauce, hints of afrobeat and a very particular seasoning. The lyrics bear the artist's mark: they project scenes in the listener's imagination and design the characters and environments with their own style of subjective chronicle. Bahia is both imaginary and intimate in Rodrigo Campos™s music.