A prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer, Mauricio Fleury has been a fixture of Brazilian music for a long time. A founding member of Brazilian Afrobeat collective Bixiga 70, Fleury has a host of projects under his belt, including recording, collaborating and playing with Gal Costa, Emicida, Lucas Santtana, João Donato, Los Pirañas and Quantic, to name but a few. An avid crate digger, he has also made his name as a vinyl DJ for over 25 years. Revoada is his solo debut album, the seeds of which were planted with a meeting with Tony Allen at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2007. Allen insisted that the two musicians get together to jam alongside Ron Trent, Theo Parrish and Steve Spacek. “From that moment on, I was never afraid to collaborate musically with anyone, no matter who’s playing”, Fleury says. “It also brought me to researching the connection between Brazilian music and Afrobeat which is something that still means the world to me”.

Across Revoada, Fleury draws from an amalgam of influences, and as the press release describes, “there are signature traces of Thelonious Monk, Ramsey Lewis’ swinging soul sound, Deodato’s drama, and styles from further afield, spreading into Turkish psych and Ethiopian jazz, when the time is right.”

Ahead of the album’s release on December 5th through Altercat Records, Fleury has shared the playful and groove-heavy lead single ‘Briluz’. Speaking about the track, he comments:

“Briluz is a made-up word, taken from the Brazilian translation of Alice in Wonderland. I was asked by a label in São Paulo to send them a track for a compilation in 2020 and this tune came to my mind as I was dreaming about dancefloors during the lockdown, so I made a fully electronic version. Then I felt we had to record another version for the album, making it a little bit more jazzy, with a certain Azymuth flavor and a beautiful electric vibraphone solo by Beto Montag, a long-time friend and collaborator.”

Listen to ‘Briluz’ now.