RFI:Arto Lindsay

Maybe I shoulda mentioned this on a Beauty Pill page

Nice! He also produced last year's Thiago Nassif - Três - http://thiagonassif3.tumblr.com/

Just saw Arto and his band in DC last night. He and the band emphasized his noisier stuff. I liked "Tangles" from the new album, which layers one of his more melodic samba vocals over a noiser bottom. He was grinning all night, and Melvin Gibbs was then making faces back at times.

New album is marvelous.

Oh yeah, saw your review. I like much of it, but not all. It was interesting live that some of the studio recorded cuts that I thought relied totally on programmed drum & bass type rhythms, were played live by the drummer, although the keyboardist was involved too. A few cuts live turned into almost formulaic jazz-funk power quartet efforts-- not my thing; while the finest cuts balanced samba-rooted vocals with noisy guitar and/or a funky bottom.

Had no idea he had a new album! He's been pretty quiet lately.

First full album with new songs and a band in 13 years I think

I guess he's been sick?

Not that I know. But maybe? He's been doing avante-garde sound installations plus curating Brazilian influenced parades, and doing some NY solo and duo gigs. There was also a collection issued a few years ago, that has some songs from his solo efforts, plus some additional live, noisier renditions of those songs.

Ace album is this.

During his original run of solo albums I thought Arto was the best thing ever. But I can't get into this new one to save my life. I'm just not on that wavelength right now. Will revisit when it stops raining and is over 45 degrees.

There are a number of different approaches on the new one (done with varying degrees of success), so you may eventually only get into some of it-- there's one song that's all noise, others with drum & bass influenced beats, and 3 I think with samba/tropicalia inspired melodies

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/04/26/525392502/the-brash-and-calm-of-arto-lindsay

When I ask him about the 13-year gap between the release of Salt in 2004 and Cuidado Madame, Arto tells me that he had been living in New York and became seriously ill, moving back to Brazil for health insurance reasons. He does not specify the illness and says he rarely talks about it. (He is healthy now.)

my review fwiw: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23082-cuidado-madame/