Ninos Du Brasil

***NICO VASCELLARI and NICOLO FORTUNI come out to play in the dark on their third and deadliest LP as NINOS DU BRASIL, taking their fascinations with ritual musics—from Brazilian Afro-Latin tribal rhythms to library music and freezing Scandinavian BM—deep into the festering undergrowth of their shared, exotic aesthetic. Where the cover of their first album for Hospital Productions, Novos Mistérios, depicted a naked man covered by a leopard pelt, MARVIN GAYE CHETWYND's oil painting of a screeching Chiroptera in flight on the Vida Eterna jacket makes a strong visual allegory for NDB's finer tuned spatial sensitivities inside, with their churning rhythms now embedded in fathoms of dread space and father shaded in layers of processed vocal chants, both punk, metal, and tribalistic. The big highlight is no doubt the closing cut, "Vagalumes Piralampos", where Arto Lindsay, the legendary founder of DNA, chimes in on a stygian, moonlit jag between the eyes of bossa nova, batacuda, and the sort of esoteric electronics also charted by Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement or Cienfuegos.