At Blue Bossa Liberté, saudade dances to syncopations, jazz flirts with Afro-Brazilian rhythms and standards melt into a lava of original compositions. Between Cecilia Peçanha’s luminous voice and Nyllo Canela’s chiselled percussion, groove is king and freedom is queen. Their music is not a quest for exoticism: it starts where they live – Brussels – and carves out a lively bossa that is up to date, clever and joyful. You’ll recognise the benevolent shadow of Tom Jobim, the brilliance of Hermeto Pascoal and the poetic vertigo of Chico Buarque. But this quartet is charting its own course, free, light and resolutely looking towards the future.
Cecilia Peçanha (vocals), Nyllo Canela (percussion, musical direction)
