Juçara Marçal e Kiko Dinucci - Padê
Artists: Juçara Marçal, Kiko Dinucci
Rating: GOOD
Genres: Afoxé Samba
Released: 2008
Type: Album
Label: Tratore
Link: Spotify

Padê was the first album to feature Juçara Marcal and Kiko Dinucci together, before they went on to form Metá Metá with Thiago França. (The São Jorge track from Padê would reappear on the MetaL MetaL album)....

In the Yoruba language, the Padê is a candomblé ceremony in which food and drinks are offered to Exu. It was believed (and in many terreiros is still believed) that in case the Orixá did not receive the proper homage, it would disrupt the whole ritual. The Padê also serves as a catalyst for superhuman energy, in which the faithful evoke and demand protection from the ancestors (Egunguns) and the ancestral mothers (Iyami Oxorongá), and Exu is responsible for taking such requests to these entities. Exu is still responsible for bringing the Gods of Africa to dance on Brazilian soil. Without Padê there is no ceremony; it only materializes if Exu is always the first to receive the tributes.

Kiko Dinucci and Juçara Marcal both carry strong influences from the Afro-Brazilian religions as well as from Brazilian popular culture. In 1998, Juçara participated in setting up and singing in A Barca, a collective of musicians focused on working with the most diverse folk rhythms from around the country. The band released four albums: Turista aprendiz (2000), Baião de Princesas (2002), Trilha, Toada e Trupe (2006) and Turista Aprendiz (2010).

She first met with Kiko in 2004 and was impressed by his artistic quality as a composer. “He had a mixture of influences I hadn’t seen before. But very much from São Paulo,” she says. Kiko is regarded as a renovator of samba from São Paulo. But his work embraces a wide range of genres – marchinha, lundu, jongo, batuque, rumba, bolero, embolada, jazz, Afro-Brazilian rhythms together with the spirit of post-punk (in the 90s he played with various indie and hardcore bands).

In 2008, they recorded Padê. The album was built on the African ancestry present in the legacies of the Brazilian popular song. It would be the starting point of a long and prolific artistic partnership that resulted in 2010 in the formation of one of the most iconic bands of the decade, Metá Metá.

Editions:
2008 Original Release
Tratore | 7898924294147 | CD
  01. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Padê (2:23)
  02. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci São Jorge (3:05)
  03. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Machado de Xangô (3:41)
  04. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Atotô (3:08)
05. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Jatobá (3:26)
  06. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Cabocla Jurema (3:54)
  07. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Mar de lágrima (4:30)
  08. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Engasga gato / Casa barata (3:25)
09. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Samba estranho (4:07)
  10. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Velha morena (1:37)
  11. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Imitação (3:15)
  12. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Batuque para Ney (3:10)
  13. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Bate baú / Coruja batuqueira (2:36)
  14. Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci Roda de Sampa (3:47)