P030 – NÍDIA – Badjuda Sukulbembe

Vinyl 7″ / Digital
Written and produced by Nídia;
Mastered by Tó Pinheiro da Silva, Artwork by Márcio Matos;
Released May, 2020;

VINYL/DIGITAL: Order from us

A1 – Tarraxoz Academy
B1 – Cheirinho

PRESS RELEASE

The rough surface on “Tarraxoz Academy” can suggest the fact that Sukulbembe is one of the spiciest ingredients in Africa, as known in Guinea-Bissau. Moving along really slow, it also suggests the opposite of agitation, and in that duality a light is struck.
“Cheirinho” is just plain sexy and takes us back to the title: if you try to translate “Badjuda Sukulbembe” into English, the best result is Spicy Girl. There’s that!

Vinyl 7″; individually hand-painted, 300 copies available for the world.

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Spinning off from the slower highlights of her album, ‘Não Fales Nela Que A Mentes’, Nídia’s 7” perfectly displays the subtly radical advances in her productions style on two achingly squashed and rude swivels that set her sound head and shoulders apart from the crowd.
Initially soft and tentative, but ultimately hard and freaky, ’Tarraxoz Academy’ plays out a heavy, druggy tension between its burning, biting point electro-leads, wavey organ refrain and dragging drums that recalls a screwed take on an imaginary DJ Stingray & Nkisi joint.
The modern rare groove of ’Cheirinho’ on the other hand comes marks a leap forward, or even sideways, from what you may expect from her early work, draping velvet chords on a natty swing beat like Omar-S gone broken beat or Dego doing Angolan R&B.

Boomkat, May 2020

No lado A surge a infecciosa “Tarraxoz Academy” que carrega provavelmente a mais feliz aliança de um simples fraseado de piano com um grave que parece capaz, subindo o volume, de rebentar woofers mais incautos; e, no lado oposto, “Cheirinho” é uma pequena pérola que servida pela garganta de alguém como Solange poderia escalar os tops dos nossos corações com a mesma facilidade com que a água nos escorre por entre os dedos.

Não há exuberância barroca na arquitectura sonora de Nídia que parece ainda assim capaz de erguer o equivalente sonoro a espartanas catedrais que parecem quase só feitas de vidro e metal, expondo a sua força e ao mesmo tendo sendo plenamente transparentes na sua componente emocional. Adornos mínimos, sofisticação rítmica máxima e imaginação na forma como se gere dramaticamente o espaço de cada canção. Nídia é boa. Nídia é – mesmo – lixada.
Rimas E Batidas, May 2020

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