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Single Takes: Mick Jenkins, Guaxe, Chukwu, and OK Kaya

Single Take is a Reviler feature where multiple people give a passing glance at some new music and causally rank it somewhere between 1 (Justin Beiber) and 10 (really amazing). Fun, right? Check out the latest installment below and feel free to tell us who stupid and out of touch we are based on our opinions. Arguing on the internet: the greatest of American traditions.

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Dinho, dos Boogarins, entrou no estúdio/covil de Bonifrate, e juntos criaram um trabalho de um psicadelismo denso e hipnotizante

Dinho, dos Boogarins, entrou no estúdio/covil de Bonifrate, e juntos criaram um trabalho de um psicadelismo denso e hipnotizante

Os Guaxe são dois velhos conhecidos nossos: Pedro Bonifrate, o druida de Paraty; e Dinho, vocalista e guitarrista dos Boogarins. Na verdade, esta fusão estava apenas à espera de acontecer, uma vez que os Boogarins, nomeadamente Benke Ferraz, nunca escondeu a admiração…

“Formed out of two Brazilian psych-rock bands, Guaxe is the newest project from Dino Almeida of Boogarins and Pedro Bonifrate of Supercordas. Named after a high-flying forest bird that sings synth-like sounds, the group, its self-titled album, and its lead single all seek to mimic the strangeness and beauty of the guaxe with 4-track machines, ambient rainforest sounds, and looped and reversed guitars. All together, Guaxe sounds like the moment you hit water after a jump when time slows, submerged.” Check it out HERE!

Guaxe, a duo out of coastal Brazil, makes a woozy, soft-focus brand of psychedelia that unspools unsteadily, weaving from side to side, bumping into hard surfaces and backing fuzzily away. Given the geography, it’s tempting to link the band to Os Mutantes, but this is far more instinctual and homespun; it’s like a machine made of brightly colored boards and rusty nails that clunks to bright unlikely life, churns away at its mysterious task for a while and then stutters to a halt. It sounds a good bit like the more abstracted elements of Elephant 6—Neutral Milk Hotel for the wheezing drone of organ, Olivia Tremor Control for the dream-like fragments of sound—and occasionally like the roughest, earliest, least electronically enhanced iterations of Animal Collective.