KATY PERRY L I V E
GIANT STEP EPK
As Katy Hudson, she released a self-titled gospel album in 2001. In 2004, she recorded an album with production team The Matrix, but it was never released. After signing on with Capitol Music Group in 2007, she released her first mainstream album, One of the Boys. better known by her stage name Katy Perry rose to fame in 2007 with her internet hit "Ur So Gay", and later scored in 2008 her breakthrough single "I Kissed a Girl".
LITTLE JACKIE
GIANT STEP EPK
Little Jackie consisting of Imani Coppola and Adam Pallin is a band which derives its name from the 1989 hit song "Little Jackie Wants to Be a Star" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. They released a hit single in 2008 called "The World Should Revolve Around Me" from their debut album The Stoop.
NICKODEMUS / ENDANGERED SPECIES
GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME featuring Stimulus and Dionysos & Nappy G
RT 3:44 Collage Animation
ESL / Wonderwheel Recordings
3 NA MASSA
NUBLU RECORDS EPK
Listen: nublu
The self-titled debut of 3 Na Massa is a project cooked up by producer Rica Amabis of the Sao Paulo-based collective Instituto and bassist Dengue and drummer Pupillo of the seminal Pernambuco rock band Nacao Zumbi. Conceived as a kind of soundtrack to the erotic comic book frames of Italian artist Milo Manara, the musicians intended to penetrate the female universe by writing songs in the feminine voice as Chico Buarque with references to the sounds of Serge Gainsbourg. The mens imaginations were fueled by women’s intimate, uncensored conversations about their amorous experiences – moments of seduction, moments of desire, moments that marked their lives. Some of Brazil’s best-known singers and actresses lend their voice for each the album’s thirteen songs including CéU, Nina Miranda (Smoke City), Thalma de Freitas (Orquestra Imperial), Karine Carvalho (soap opera star) and Alica Braga (“City of God”).
FORRO IN THE DARK / BONFIRES OF SAO JOAO
ASA BRANCA featuring David Byrne
RT 3:33 Animation
Nublu Records
Bonfires of Sao Joao, Forro in the Dark’s first album on Nublu Records, features Byrne making a guest vocal appearance, singing his English version of “Asa Branca”—a permanent smile of a song. The rest of the album spans the breadth of Forro history. Cibo Matto’s Miho Hatori joins the band to sing “Paraiba”, a Japanese version of a song originally recorded in the fifties by Forro founder Luis Gonzaga. On the album’s sublime climax, Bebel Gilberto joins the band to sing a version of “Wandering Swallow”, a song originally released by Peggy Lee in 1951. This video was produced in Madrid in cooperation with Forward.