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Brazil\u2019s Satanique Samba Trio have been dragging various local folk-music styles into their creepy tool shed, and doing unspeakable things to them, for about 10 years now. In honour of the make-believe menace and morbidity of Halloween (Dia das Bruxas, or Witches\u2019 Day, in Brazil), they\u2019ve manufactured a two-headed monster. They\u2019ve dressed up forr\u00f3, a cheerful, proletarian party music from the country\u2019s northeastern farmlands, in the trappings of the Italian electro-horror sound of the 1970s, the creepy synth-rock that accompanied a putrid parade of zombie movies and lurid giallo<\/em> thrillers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to tell through the haze of xiboquinha<\/em>, the sugarcane liquor that\u2019s regarded to be the official drink of the forr\u00f3 scene, but this monster\u2019s two heads might be arguing at cross-purposes, or exchanging lascivious come-ons. Either way, their outbursts are brief. Satanique Samba Trio\u2019s pieces never last very long \u2013 the 28 tracks on Instant Karma<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, released earlier this year, were all 15 seconds long, and most of those on Forr\u00edvel<\/em> clock in at about a minute. For some tracks, that\u2019s fine, just long enough to gawk at them like the wretched, caged mutants in some itinerant freak show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are however many moments here when Brasilia resident Munha da 7, bassist and producer, joined by a band that\u2019s brought all of forr\u00f3\u2019s requisite instruments to the studio (accordion, viola caipira, zabumba drum, and of course the mighty triangle), achieve the unexpected. They reveal something musical that transcends the joking mash-up of incongruous genres, something more than the sum of the parts. The invigourating \u201cSemi-Obsessor Dream Sequence\u201d and \u201cSatanai\u2019s Theme\u201d are good examples of this, and at less than a minute long each, far too short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n