Mimosa

MIMOSA is music, but it goes beyond. Is anthropology and musical archeology that rescues the sound and movement of black Brazilian bodies, their rhythms and multiple languages. The debut album of the project that unites artists Mbé, Leyblack Beats and Luiz Felipe Lucas emerges as the result of a dive into creator origins, during immersion in an artistic residency in Spain. The result is a manifesto album on Afro-Brazilian power rhythms: from terreiro to samba, including hip hop, drum’n’ bass and the various aspects of Brazilian funk. Mimosa is a release by the QTV label, available on the main platforms.

The funk criminalization is the starting point of the research that led the artists to address to the historical oppression of Afro-descendant artistic expressions in Brazil. From institutional prejudices — such as an anti-vagrancy law that actually resulted in the illegality of capoeira and other cultural manifestations — they tell a story of silencing. MIMOSA is a project that celebrates the creativity resistance of black music.