New York showed plenty of love for Seu Jorge and Almaz. Yesterday, the stalwart website Brooklyn Vegan ran their photos and show review; New York’s biggest newspaper ran an album review. An excerpt from The New York Times:
“It’s pretty blissful music, stubborn in its antiprofessionalism, soulful in its garage-iness. It makes strong and simple rearrangements of formerly lush songs. It’s not trying too hard, and then suddenly it is: in “Cristina,” Seu Jorge hollers the refrain as loud as his voice will go, channeling his source, the singer Tim Maia; in Jorge Ben’s “Errare Humanum Est,” the whole performance, with thick crusts of surf guitar and shuffling drums, takes on a mysterious strength, a trancelike shimmer. ”
Link: Photos of Seu Jorge and Almaz at Brooklyn Vegan.
