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Artist: Sango

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Da Rocinha 4

Taylor Hart from West Coast cannabis hip-hop site Respect My Region selected Da Rocinha 4 as one of the very best Northwest albums from 2020, saying:

Sango has become my favorite artist to listen to while I practice yoga. Even though his albums are produced electronically, they have this organic ‘from the Earth’ feel to them. This year, one of his newest releases, Da Rocinha 4, became my go-to album for my sun salutation asana.

The album has an energizing quality to it while simultaneously having this calm aura that curbs my anxieties. I often find myself leaning deeper into my stretches and counting the tempo to determine when I switch sides. It also happens to have the perfect run time from start to finish to fit my routine. Any album that gets incorporated into my daily life like that absolutely deserves to be one of my top 24 albums of the year.

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In The Comfort Of

CityArts declared In The Comfort Of as their Album of the Month for March. They describe the magic of this record as Sango’s “wholehearted embrace of change as an agent of evolution for the city and the nation.” DJ Booth touches upon the emotional intensity of the music, “capturing the peaks and valleys of personal growth with an unfiltered lens… Sango reveals himself as a true empath.” Pigeons & Planes praises the “infectious Latin rhythms, romantic and lush, while still having a sleek electronic sheen… it is a perfect project to get lost in.”

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De Mim, Pra Voce

De Mim, Pra Voce, is a sample-heavy solo effort from Sango. (Fav track “Devolva” is the most strongly reminiscent of his work on Tomorrow with Dave B.) Here’s an artist who understands the transformative power of the conjured environment. On this release, smooth, languid and huge floor-shaking bass meanders in opposition to stuttering, chopped sounds from the Latin world, creating unexpected motion, unhurried, while at the same time full of momentum. It’s a tough trick to pull off. Think drum-n-bass on your headphones as you sit, lost in thought, on a train racing past exotic countryside. “Eu Te Devoro,” surfs the waves, periodically plunging you underwater. “Vista Da Gávea” marches you through carnival night and carries you through to the light of the next morning’s dawn.

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Tomorrow

At some point this year I stuck a sticky note on the front of this CD that says, “Killer tracks: #2, 3.” Later, I went back and added the numbers for pretty much every other track on this record. Tomorrow is an album built around all the amazing things Dave B can do with his voice, with phrases and verses providing all the momentum here, constantly pivoting forward, fast, slow, in reverse. On this release, his voice stands alone in Sango’s stripped-down ambient environment: distant synths enveloping the verses, and ever-present washes of reverb. I love the sounds of rain falling throughout the opening of “Cold Weather.” The “Rainier Beach Station” announcement from a Link light rail car grounds this record in a place: It’s the sound of Seattle’s south end, magic and multicultural.

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