Karol Conka - Gandala

It's not too late to uncover irresistible summer tracks, y'all, I promise.  Who cares that it's August.  The pool is still open.

Hard to find that much information out there about Karol Conka, which is surprising, given how irresistible her music is.  The album art does a good job of projecting what you've got here. Conka grew up in Curitiba, Brazil.  Maybe I'm just tired of the wispy female vocals I have to sort through each month, but I am always ready for confident, gritty vocals coming from women.  Match that with some 2014-produced Brazilian polyrhythms, and we've got us some summer jams.  Finally, her folk sampling from Vola and Bola Noite earns this an extra star.  Not that we do that around these parts.

In her Rookiemag interview, quoting Martinho da Vila, Conka explained, "Na minha casa todo mundo é bamba, todo mundo bebe, todo mundo samba”—“In my house everyone is bamba, everybody drinks, everybody dances samba."  

Conka's said she's going for originality, spontaneity, confidence, and self-esteem.

Yeah.  You try to cue up Boa Noite, a nice down-tempo track, in which Conka repeats, (translated) "Hear this loud sound; hear that sound; hear this loud sound," without feeling a little cocky, yourself. Recommended for your calculated march into any courtroom.

Methinks this won't be the last we hear from Karol Conka.