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Limited Edition Half Clear Olive / Half White Vinyl with bonus lenticular postcard and 20-page lyric booklet. Available for the first time at retail! You may know Rodrigo Amarante already. You may have heard InchTuyo,Inch his theme tune to the Netflix drama Narcos, or the Little Joy album, recorded with Fab Moretti and Binki Shapiro, you might have noted his name among the credits on songs by Gal Costa, Norah Jones and Gilberto Gil; or perhaps you saw him play live with Brazilian samba big band Orquestra Imperial, or with Rio rockers Los Hermanos; you really should have heard his debut album, Cavalo, released in 2014. You may think you know Rodrigo Amarante already, but Drama, his second solo album, is going to introduce a whole new level of confusion to the mix.Drama is purposefully caricatural, cinematic; InchAs biased as memoryInch. It flows as an arch, playfully deceiving, like a tale. The ominous opening number gives you a hint that things might not be what they appear, and clues are hiding in plain sight. InchProjection, attachment, deception that is Drama.Inch. The sunny upbeat start of InchMaréInch, with a nearly childish opening melody, echoes something less naïf InchThe tide will fetch what the ebb bringsInch. The beat helps you move past. InchTangoInch sounds like falling in love on the dance floor, warm and tropical, it celebrates companionship, while perhaps pleading for it, yearning. InchTara,Inch meanwhile, feels like something Astrud Gilberto might have sung at the height of bossa nova's global popularity, with the twist of the big-band-era muted horns on the chorus, nearly self-deprecating, as if mocking such idealized infatuation. Drama closes with the piano on InchThe End.Inch To live is to fall. After all the emotional upheavals the singer has put his cast through, is this some kind of farewell to this mortal coil? InchEverything Furthers.Inch sa
