Dias Gomes, Ricardo
Muito Sol
'Muito Sol' is the third solo album from Brazilian auteur Ricardo Dias Gomes. The album is a deep, widescreen exploration in classic Brazilian song that brings all the subtlety and delicacy you'd expect from the pioneers of Musica Popular Brasileira coupled with a thoroughly 21st century sensibility and taste for sonic innovation. The songs, led by Gomes' gentle and dreamy voice, are often reminiscent of classic innovators such as Caetano Veloso, Joao Bosco or Edu Lobo, though they take unexpected lines of flight into more experimental territory. There is also an element of drone underpinning the whole album which surfaces and takes full charge on 'Fllux' and 'Transiçao,' before the album is closed by what turns into the molten, distorted piece of raging hardcore, 'Coraçao Sulamericano,' Ricardo's expression of pride in his Latin American heritage.