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Discover the "Now Sound" of Brazil:
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Afro:Baile is an independent Brazilian Music record label based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Our mission is to Discover, Produce and Promote the Now Sound of Brazilian Music! We dig deep throughout the various regions of Brazil to find the most modern and forward thinking Brazilian music today. FOUNDATION Established in 2006, Afro:Baile was created by Arizona DJ & long time World Music enthusiast Miguel Ivery (aka DJ Seduce). Afro:Baile first began as a monthly event for international touring artists and local artist to come together and perform Afro‐World Music, Dance and Cultural traditions. The primary focus of the event was to introduce the infectious grooves of Africa and how African culture had influenced the sounds of Latin America through music in drums, songs, and history, but more specifically Brazil and the Afro‐Brazilian music style. In the first year of the event launching, Afro:Baile received the Best of Phoenix (2006) award for Best New World Music Event, presented by the Phoenix Newtimes. The event, also hosted to a number of international and national touring acts including reggae legend “General Smiley” of famed dancehall originators “Michigan & Smiley”, as well as Jamaica’s Yellow Wall Dub Squad, Brazil's Banda Som Brasil, Grammy Nominated Latin band “Nostros” and members of the B‐Side Players (Concord Picante recording artists). With growing popularity among local, national and global communities, Afro:Baile began to take form as the central hub of global music & afro‐culture in Phoenix, Arizona. Resident DJ & event founder DJ Seduce, began a cultural crusade to bring some of the best upcoming and established acts from across the globe from places such as Brazil, Africa, Latin America, Mexico and Jamaica. CREATION As 2007 took form, DJ Seduce decided to put together a CD compilation of past guests of the event, to showcase some of the future leaders of the global movement. As the CD took form, DJ Seduce recognized the need to release the CD on an independent level. With that idea, in February 2008, he took his love for World music and Culture and and officially launched the label Afro:Baile Records as a spin off to the event, and an imprint for Brazilian Music and beyond. Afro:Baile’s primary focus is discovering today’s new talented musicians, bands and Dj’s from across the various regions of Brazil while introducing a new type of music series called Brazil:Sambossica, a feature style of Brazilian music that brings together Samba, Bossa Nova and Electronica for a Modern take on today’s new meets old Brazilian music styles. The label also continues to introduce and feature select artist’s albums and release’s on both CD & vinyl. FUTURE Today, Afro:Baile is an internationally recognized record label & the only active Brazilian music label in the USA. Afro:Baile has garnered a worldwide audience that has help elevate the label, the artists and the music to new frontiers! Afro:Baile has been credited for introducing the "Now Sound of Brazilian Music" and beyond. From Radio Play, DJ's, Magazine features, and interviews around the world, Afro:Baile has managed to go beyond the norm in creating a unique and forward thinking sound for the next dimension of Brazilian music. |
Afro:Baile Records music
catalog has been included in the largest collection of Brazilian music & sound records archive in the world |
