Discoteca Tropicana

Selva Discos is proud to present its latest release: the EP by the band Discoteca Tropicana. This record features 4 original tracks that celebrate the rhythms that have influenced Brazilian disco music, showcasing the best of this fusion: the swing and tropical flavour that bring sunshine to any dance floor.

The project is the result of a collaboration between Kiko Costato, the enfant terrible of the Brazilian music scene, and Ze Nigro, a producer and multi-instrumentalist who has won two Grammy Awards and has worked with major names in Brazilian and international music such as Joao Donato, Antonio Carlos & Jocafi and Natasha Diggs.

This EP is based on 4 different themes. For each one, Kiko and Ze Nigro recruited some of Brazil’s finest studio musicians – people who work with Seu Jorge, Ceu, Criolo, Metá Metá, Cidadao Instigado and Tulipa Ruiz – as well as pioneering artists from the Brazilian Black music scene, such as the backing vocalists who work with the legendary Gilberto Gil.

Corpos Celestes is a more classic disco diva track, featuring string arrangements and a grand piano, as if it were the start of the evening, a magical moment straight from the heyday of disco in the United States; Corpo Treme is the sweat, the vuco-vuco, a song for that moment when you’ve already let yourself go, a sprint to the frenetic rhythm of the carimbó; Tobina is the meeting of Brazil and Africa, from which Brazilian swing is born, an original chant straight from the Congo, with a characteristic African guitar, adapted to Brazilian rhythms, just like the afoxe. Finally, the dancefloor hit Nao Pode Acabar, a more urban disco track, which works just as well for kicking off a party with the right vibe as for closing a set with the highest energy.

• 1 corpos celestes
• 2 corpo treme
• 3 tobina
• 4 nao pode acabar