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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (11563)	11/16/2006 12:38:45 AM
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6000 Brazilians living in New Zealand and more than 1000 in Queenstown, their music has started to seep on to Kiwi airwaves. That's how we strat an invasion! Kiwi-Brazil blend By Yvonne Kerr 16 Nov 2006 It was only a matter of time. With about 6000 Brazilians living in New Zealand and more than 1000 in Queenstown, their music has started to seep on to Kiwi airwaves. NZ’s first collaborative project with Brazilian artists has produced OE: Brazil, an 11-track album featuring an original blend of Kiwi and Brazilian music. Six top Kiwi artists – Barnaby Weir from the Black Seeds and Fly My Pretties, Hollie Smith, Alda Rezende, Maaka Phat, P-Digss and renowned DJ/producer Recloose – were flown to Sao Paulo last June and July to record with some of Brazil’s finest musos. Tomorrow at Surreal, Queenstown welcomes DJ Recloose, P-Digss and Brazilian DJ Bobby Brazuka as part of the album release tour. Executive producer of OE: Brazil is Michael Tucker of LOOP Media in Wellington – he hopes to repeat the project in Spain next year. “What came from the exchange was more than new music and lifelong friends, it was a new relationship between the two countries,” says Tucker. Originally from Sao Paulo, Roberto Mukai, aka DJ Bobby Brazuka, 28, was the project’s official translator. Living in NZ for seven years, Mukai says language barriers didn’t hold up three weeks of intense recording in his home city. “None of the Kiwi artists spoke Portuguese and only a few of the Brazilians spoke English,” he says. “But music was the transitional language.” Mukai, who edits a Brazilian newsletter in Auckland, says the album has already sold out four times over in the record store he works at on Auckland’s trendy Ponsonby Road. Though Brazilian and Kiwi music share hardly any of the same characteristics – Kiwi music is “lot more chilled and down tempo” than its Latino counterpart, says Mukai – they came together well to produce a “diverse” album. “It’s good to develop the Brazilian culture in NZ,” he says. “The number of Brazilians here is on the up and we’re going to be part of the Kiwi culture.” Brazil’s best export is its music, says Mukai, and a one-hour TV doco about the OE: Brazil project that screened in October will repeat again on December 1 and educate more Kiwis about Latino culture, music and people, he says.