• Bixiga 70: Vapor review – infectious exuberance from the Afro-Brazilian favourites

    Bixiga 70: Vapor review – infectious exuberance from the Afro-Brazilian favourites
    (Glitterbeat)
    Though the São Paulo ensemble’s fifth album never quite captures their live energy, their move to a more melodic sound works a treat
    “It’s like we can see the light again,” says baritone sax player Cuca Ferreira of São Paulo’s instrumental powerhouse Bixiga 70. He’s talking not only of the Covid pandemic, which hit his country especially hard, but the end of “four years of extreme rightwing government with a project to destroy

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