Thiago Nassif

Thiago Nassif: Mente

by Chris May
June 20, 2020

This is by no stretch of the imagination a jazz album, yet Brazilian singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer Thiago Nassif's Mente is so packed with risk-taking and invention that it is likely to appeal to a good number of AAJers. The music's starting point is tropicalia, Brazil's tripped-out successor to bossa nova in the mid to late 1960s. The wider tropicalia movement--a southern hemisphere cousin of contemporary Left Bank Paris and Downtown New York countercultures—was a multi-media phenomenon ...