Therefore, Adriana was especially eager to make Errante a real "band album". The recording sessions took place in the Rocinante recording studio (located in Araras, Petrópolis, hidden in the Serra dos Órgãos National Park and surrounded by the Atlantic Forest) and provided Adriana with an opportunity to personally reconnect with other musicians, something she very much missed during the pandemic. The outgoing spirit does not only show in the songs, almost all of them conceived and composed since 2020. The album is marked by Adriana's choice for joyous songs. On "Errante", Adriana offers eleven new originals that draw a self-portrait of the artist. At times, she quotes lines from Oswald de Andrade's famous "Manifesto Antropófago" (in "Prova dos Nove"), Portuguese poet Luís de Camões (in "Era isso?"), fellow-musician Gilberto Gil (in "Nômade"), or draws inspiration from an art installation by Lygia Clark (in "Nômade"). On her new studio album, her thirteenth so far, Calcanhotto is wandering between an array of different styles (everything from bossa nova, samba-canção, xote, maxixe, samba-de-roda to rock, pop, and funk carioca) and topics (love and the end of it, flirting, loss, mourning, self-reflection).
Now, the two-time Latin Grammy winner (in 20) returns with a much more outgoing effort aptly titled Errante ("Errant"). The album, of course, underlined the loneliness experienced during this time. That is to say, in a virtual collaboration with other musicians who - just like herself - had been confined in domestic quarantine. The Corona lockdown in Brazil forced Adriana to record her latest album Só ("Alone") under unusual circumstances. For 30 years now, Adriana Calcanhotto has been at the forefront of a new generation of female Brazilian singer-songwriters who are equally accomplished as composers, instrumentalists, and poets.
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