Grito de Paz

The opening track of the 2011 debut, and the first original song the collective ever arranged.
Bixiga 70, from Bixiga 70 (2011)

Written by
Mauricio Fleury, Ben Lamar
Released
2011
Length
4:26
Album
Bixiga 70

Play on hypersongs

Written by Mauricio Fleury and Ben Lamar, it opens the debut album and was the first original composition the group arranged. The band's liner notes describe a tropical blend of Cuban santería rhythms, West African clave, a disco beat and Afro-Brazilian chants of the 1970s. The title means a cry of peace. It was recorded at Estúdio Traquitana and mixed by Victor Rice at Estúdio Copan, with musical production by Rice, Décio 7, Cris Scabello and Fleury.

Reviewing the band at Rec-Beat in Recife in February 2012, Rolling Stone Brasil picked it out, with Tema di Malaika and Dub Vermelho, as playing that showed virtuosity without tedium, carried by contagious percussion and bass and guitar lines repeated with plenty of swing. setlist.fm logs it from December 2014 through to Brasília in September 2025, where it came second in the set, just ahead of 100% 13. The upload in the hypersongs web is the album version.

More songs by Bixiga 70

100% 13

Sources

  1. Bixiga 70, Bandcamp
  2. Bixiga 70 - Grito de Paz, Bixiga 70 (YouTube) (2017-11-07)
  3. Rec-Beat 2012: Bixiga70, Rolling Stone Brasil (2012-02-21)
  4. Bixiga 70 setlists, setlist.fm