‘Beleza Como Vingança’, released by labels Mamba Rec and Naive, will be available on all main streaming platforms from june 10, 2022.
The duo TRYPAS CORASSÃO, formed by brazilian artists Tita Maravilha and Cigarra, will release their debut album, ‘Beleza Como Vingança’ on the 10th of june. The record comes with nine original tracks, a vinyl edition, and will be available for streaming on all platforms. The album’s first music video, made for the song ‘Lusho, Elegância & Sofisticação’, was directed by Francisca Marvão and will be released this summer.
Conceptually, ‘Beleza como Vingança’ is an aesthetical and sonic insurgency against the rules which define what is beautiful - in music, in art, on the streets and in our bodies. It’s a work which weaves together different beauties and non-hegemonic oddities, and thus reinterprets those two words: beautiful and odd. “Let us think of a possible beauty, accessible and subversive” as Tita summarizes it.
The making of the album was funded with the prize from the PULSAR - Mulheres da Música Eletrónica em Portugal, which the duo won in 2019.
Even though it occupies a hybrid place between music and performance, TRYPAS CORASSÃO present ‘Beleza como Vingança’ to consolidate their place in Portugal’s music scene - and also in the context of experimental queer music from the Global South.
This hybridism, moreover, is a central device for the album’s artistic proposal, which crosses samples of 90s pop songs with Brazilian funk and brega, heavy beats and glitches, from “chic house beats” (as Tita defines it), to influences of the Brazilian traditional culture which flow through both of them.
“In Brazil, there are Brazilian versions of several famous songs from around the world, with different lyrics and a different melody. This album plays a lot with that idea of a “brazilian version”, the idea of taking something and resignifying it, but in a glitchy, experimental way, mixing snippets of various references at the same time. You hear a sample and, when you recognize it - by the time you think ‘hold up, I’ve heard this before’ -, the track has already become something else”, describes Cigarra. The album’s last track is a megamix which symbolizes this “pot-pourri of funk hallucinations”, in the duo’s own words.
The invited collaborations of ‘Beleza como Vingança’ also sew a plural patchwork of dissident beauties. There are features by trans artists from different countries and cultural backgrounds: Iêda (Brazil) and Lola Bhajan (Argentina) on ‘Espinho Y Punhal’ and Enana (Germany/Syria) on the track ‘Fast & Furious’. The guest instrumentalists are Mandacaru (trumpet), Bigjohn (accordion) and R Vicenzo (beats). All the musical compositions were done by Cigarra and Tita Maravilha.
About TRYPAS CORASSÃO
TRYPAS CORASSÃO is the duo of Tita Maravilha and Cigarra, two Lisbon-based Brazilian artists. It’s an aesthetical and political project of hybrid creation, blending performance and electronic music. The body that carries recollections and unrecollections of violence and, now, has in its hands the power of change. Thus, it unravels the borders, the unborders and re-borders of genre and expression, through the sonic languages of the fringes of Brazil and the whole world, from funk to jungle, chewing pop culture and (traditional) popular culture, historical samples, the overdramatic and the post-romantic. Brazilian duo formed by urgent bodies of marginal womanhoods and trans fury, in a hybrid and sensual proposal which brings a live act filled with creamy noises and pleas.
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released June 10, 2022
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