DJ Dolores, a veteran of Recife's manguebeat movement, has been writing and producing music for the Brazilian film industry since 1989. He combines traditional music from the northeast of Brazil with modern electronic sounds. He started out as a DJ, but was soon asked for the soundtrack of the Brazilian film Enjaulado. The music he produced for this film was so special that the offers poured in
… afterwards and within a relatively short time DJ Dolores was a prominent name in the list of Brazilian film composers. All this greatly benefits the variety on Banda Sonora. Brazilian blues is interspersed with festive disco, futuristic electro funk, a bolero with a complaining accordion, thumping dub, and jazz. Now and then the corniness strikes, such as in the circus-like Pola do Co, where you can hear a polonaise lilliputian clowns, as it were. But that shouldn't spoil the fun, because Banda Sonora is not only a collection of exceptional music, but also provides deeper insight into Brazil's enormous diversity of musical atmospheres. (AD)more
