8 years after releasing his debut solo album, Rodrigo Amarante is finally back with another full-length release.
While Cavalo (2013) was heavily influenced by Amarante’s immigrant life in Los Angeles, where he moved to after the massive success with his band Los Hermanos, Drama (2021), sounds like a much more cohesive effort to finding his own identity as a solo artist. The self-titled opening track serves as a prelude to what we’ll experience throughout the record, which sees Amarante switching back and forth in between English and Portuguese (his native language), with extreme naturality.
My favorite track (so far) is Tara, a lovely old-school samba that is both minimal and grandiose at the same time.
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