Liniker opens wings with solo album enhanced by symphonic arrangements | Mauro Ferreira's blog

Title: indigo butterfly indigo

Edition: Independent edition distributed by Altafonte

♪ Just listen victorious – samba-enredo that passes majestically as the ninth track of Liniker’s first solo album, conducted by Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica, with an arrangement conducted by Ruriá Duprat – to realize that the artist opens wings on the album released at 7 pm on Thursday, September 9th.

With a different cover for each digital platform, the album indigo butterfly indigo marks the first real solo flight of Liniker de Barros Ferreira Campos, a 26-year-old singer, songwriter and actress from São Paulo, born on July 3, 1995 in Araraquara (SP) and revealed in 2015, at the age of 20, as front woman from the Caramellows group.

Already disassociated from the group, from which she left in February 2020, Liniker succeeds in packaging with symphonic arrangements a good part of the authorial crop of indigo butterfly indigo – songbook that, strictly speaking, sounds irregular throughout the album, with lyrics that sometimes speak louder than the songs themselves, in case of Psst (2020), previously presented in October last year as the album's lead single.

Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica appears in no less than five of the 11 tracks on the album, recorded with musical production orchestrated by Liniker with Gustavo Ruiz and Júlio Fejuca. just listen moon of faith to attest to Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica's exuberant contribution to Liniker's solo album.

Orkestra Rumpilezz, conducted by maestro Letieres Leite, performs Before everything – old song, melodically unattractive and composed by Liniker in adolescence – striking remarkable swing with the horns and percussions of the big band Afro-Brazilian from Salvador (BA).

poetically, Before everything records the moment when Liniker decided to fly in life. By the way, indigo butterfly indigo it is a statement album that sounds essentially authorial, and not just because Liniker signed all 11 songs, nine of which without partners.

The artist printed very personal feelings in most of the songs. Some sound confessional, like the song Honey, born at the end of the disc's creation and recording process, having been inserted at the end of indigo butterfly indigo as a bonus track, captured informally in voice and guitar format, in take which embeds dialogues between the singer and the musicians in the studio.

In a more expansive tone, Tell me when it costs – a partnership between Liniker and Mahmundi, Tássia Reis, Tulipa Ruiz and Victor Hugo – fits right into the swing of samba-rock, complete with a sampler piloted by DJ Niack. Tássia Reis sings this samba-rock with Liniker, whose chorus includes the voice of Tulipa Ruiz.

Mahmundi, Tássia Reis and Tulipa Ruiz also appear in Baby 95 as Liniker's partners on this song released in June as the album's second single.

Longest track on the album, at five minutes and 18 seconds, Baby 95 it begins with an R&B tune and flows into a pagode cadence, reviving the link between the two genres, resulting from the samba variant that emerged in São Paulo in the 1990s.

And speaking of samba, the music Gift it also evolves in the cadence of the genre, in Maurício Badé's percussion and with Curumin's drum and synth touch.

Album of excellent instrumental finish, indigo butterfly indigo opens up Liniker's rhythmic range without alienating the artist from soul and R&B, dominant genres in the singer's discography with the group Caramellows.

In this matrix universe, Liniker manifests love and black pride in Lili, profiling with soul and soul the title character of this song written in English with verses like “Her black skin is gold”. Lili is the high point of the repertoire that also rises in Lalange, music started with spoken narrative.

the lyrics of Lalange talks about dreams and lost flights in childhood. Milton Nascimento sings Lalange with Liniker and, even with a worn-out voice, hovers supreme as an MPB entity, contributing to the elevation of the track on an open disc with a declaration of love to a dog, clau. The music itself is weak, but the theme of clau will soften those who devote affection to pets.