ailaika

Genre: Pop
Secondary Genre: Alternative Sao Paulo, Not Applicable Brazil Contact

cowboys in love, cadillacs and blue maggots crawling at a girl's door - that's ailaika!
the brazilian dreampop duo now releases their second album, bringing out their passion for synthesizers, 80's pop, voice effects and surreal imagery. yay!

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Artist Information

Biography

*ailaika* is luv.
*ailaika* is synthfantasy. retrofuture. my grandma.

Currently living in Europe, the brazilian dreampop duo started back in 2009, with their first independent album *leveleve*.

Four years later, Susana Bragatto (voice/samplers) and Zé Ruivo (keyboards/programming) release their passion for synthesizers, 80's pop, surreal imagery and many voice effects with their second album, *an age of love*.

On January 2013, *an age of love* was elected the 7th best brazilian album release of 2012 by embrulhador.com, on a top 100 chart that included new and well-known artists such as Céu, Caetano, Bossacucanova and others (http://www.embrulhador.com/2013/01/Os100melhores2012.html). Plus, it was cited as one of the five best national albums of 2012 by the chief editor of Showlivre, the biggest music site of Brasil (http://msn.showlivre.com.br/home/itemblog/3981/33444?link=54.html).

Cowboys in love, blue maggots crawling at a girl's door, lazy cats waiting for the milkman and so forth are some of the main characters on this fantasy world.

The record is a co-production with the São Paulo producer Apollo9, who's already worked with artists such as Rita Lee, Otto, Cibelle and N.A.S.A.It was born on the S.A. Plant Studio, in São Paulo, run by Apollo9 and the american producer Roy Cicala (Record Plant Studios, NY).

Synthpop, dreampop and strange lyrics on cadillacs, love and squirrels fill in the songs. Vintage mixing and recording equipment are present all over the album, like eighties’ synths, an oberheim drum machine (on “Squirrel Dance”), a harmonium organ (“Blue Maggot”) and a lovely omnichord, an early eighties’ electronic autoharp (on "Lazy Cat" and "Lick my Body").

João Parahyba (Trio Mocotó, Jorge Ben, Suba), Eric Budney (bass and acoustic bass - Jair Oliveira, Luciana Mello) and James Müller (Funk como Le Gusta) are some of the musicians who contributed on this project.

The legendary brazilian singer Odair José is the special guest on the mambo-chanson "Tristinha”.


TRIVIA

it's us, meu!: dreampop, synthpop, lounge
hellokeyttywords: retrofuture, fantasy pop, sweetness, chill out, contemplation, dream, smooth psychedelia.
some ((absolutely free)) inspirations: Goldfrapp, David Lynch, PJ Harvey, Metronomy, Hyldon, Peaches, Devo, Bat for Lashes, Gorillaz, Nino Rota, Björk, João Donato, Little Dragon, Erasmo Carlos, New Order, The Kills, Cowboy Junkies, B-52’s, Beck, Ingmar Bergman, Chet Baker, Angelo Badalamenti, books for children, lullabies, su's-mom-humming-a-japanese-song and so on.

*****

Instrumentation

susana bragatto - Samplers, voice, Ukelele
zé ruivo - programming, keyboards, Samplers

Discography

an age of love (2012 - tratore)
leveleve (2009 - tratore)

Official Website

http://www.ailaika.com

Links

Audio

Lyrics

Video

early morning - ailaika @ showlivre (jan.2013)

ailaika-em-Blue-maggot-no-Estu´dio-Showlivre-2013[www.savevid.com].mp4

Photo Gallery

Press

  • The 100 best brazilian albums of 2012 [+ Show ]

    AN AGE OF LOVE - 7th "Dreampop com amour". Susana Bragatto e Zé Ruivo catam referências de seu fé...

  • 2012 musical reviews: editor's choices [+ Show ]

    2012 musical retrospective - editor's choices 21 of december, 2012 by Marcelo Shida a review of ...

Setlist

*instrumental intro
*blue maggot
*stormy weather (version)
*sorriso dela (version - erasmo carlos)
*tatata thee
*lick my body
*an age of love
*she's leaving home
*everybody's gotta learn sometime (version)
*early morning
*self control
*cadillac
*tristinha
*lazy cat
*tainted love (version)
*esquilo

Basic Requirements

PDF Rider

ailaika_rider_with_drums.pdf

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