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CRIOLINA'S ROOM WELCOMES
BNEGÃO
Bernardo, rise up and swing it. But to which sound?
Man, there are several.
I even use some of them as reference
James Brown, for instance,
It would be his 80th birthday some days ago
last Saturday exactly,
So, it's a time issue here
He's a classic.
He managed to make music that no one can stop dancing to
and that would make you think and question at the same time.
He had a big role on the civil rights movement
And this is also the Seletores' campaign
That you can think and dance at the same time
It won't kill you, It's not dangerous to society
B., Destroy to then build?
So, I've thought about that a lot man. It's funny,
Analysing like, in a Me-Myself-And-I style
Ahm... I stopped and thought
How...How was this path, from the Funk *** to Seletores,
The path...
Ahm.. and that's exactly it
Funk ***, Planet Hemp, had this characteristic
That I think they were part of...
They were part of a 'destruction' team, you know?
Destroy... That's it. To destroy.
Sometimes, just not building. Other times, just plain destruction.
And then I understood I was more a building type of guy
I think that a destruction team is fundamental
like so many friends of mine do
like the Matanza crew, my brothers,
They're totally a destruction team
Planet Hemp is also a destruction team,
But my daily struggle is with a building team
That's why I am a 100% with the Seletores de Frequencia.
Mate, if the net caught it, is it fish?
My commitment with it began due to a political issue
because, at that time,
that polemic between Napster and Metallica reached its peak
Metallica was a group that, at the beginning,
What did they use to say? They said:
'If you buy our album, copy it and give it to everyone you can."
And they said that throughout all those years
And when the thing got bigger, they said:
'Copying is a crime, I'll bust your ***, punk!'
And then I said: 'Man, *** you!'
And then, in several situations,
people threw that line: 'Oh, the artist, the musician...'
'won't eat his caviar, cause people are copying his work...'
And then, ahm...
And then there was this Funk ***' manager,
that I convinced him to be our manager,
He was like an activist punk rocker
He worked... he was one of the first who worked at CMI
And we were getting off a bus in Santa Teresa
talking about Copyleft
and around the time we had this conversation,
I'd just launched an album through a big label
I took an interest in the subject since then
and I've started studying about it, since 1998
In 2003, when we were about to launch the Seletores' album,
the climax of the Napster debate was going on
for the first time I got my hands on the master recording
but I'd made up my mind that I would upload it on the net
because I felt I needed to get away from the mainstream attitude
I had no idea of the massive impact it would have.
LISTEN UP!
My musical recommendation Ladies and Gentlemen,
of Criolina,
Is nothing but Amendoim Pão de Mel
by the group BaianaSystem
A track from their new album which will be launched this year
to me, it seems it will be the album of the year
straight out of Salvador, Bahia.