Ana Frango Elétrico is the Brazilian wunderkind creating music for star-gazers and earth dwellers drifting from place to place seeking company and collaboration.
New album ‘Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua’ (Call Me They That I’m Yours), sees Ana invoke the core conventions of Brazilian boogie music, filtering it through a prism of a retro-futurist, wide-ranging pop. Blithely referential but gesturing forwards in it’s embrace of samples and pop culture idioms, ‘Me Chama..’ is funky, heady and propulsive. It’s also an interior offering, full of diaristic observations and raw, personal truths, unfurling the layers to Ana’s ever-evolving identity.
Of the album, the non-binary artist says: “I started it in 2021 with the intention of showing, in means of sound, understanding and feelings about queer love, subjectively exposing myself. Feeling was its driving force, and the album is really about musical production. There’s so many references to different decades. Seventies drums with eighties processing…Going back, getting beyond…Testing the limits of organic sounds”.
The north star in their community, Ana Frango Elétrico regularly cites their influences, embracing both the nascent and established music community from which they emerged. For CLASH, they offer up five artist recommendations from the cosmopolitan hub of Rio….
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Negro Leo
Negro Leo is a major reference for what I do in terms of music and the way I think about music. He and his wife, the singer Ava Rocha (daughter of the great Brazilian film maker Glauber Rocha), were two of the first artists to recognise my work and open doors to me. Leo has released many albums, and I’m currently producing his next album.
Dada Joãozinho
Besides being a composer with a very different style than mine, his first solo album, released this year, really touched me, especially the way he searches for a global aesthetics. Coming from Niteroi, a city neighbouring Rio de Janeiro, he used to sing in the band Rosa Bege, whose album I sung on.
Raquel Dimantas
Raquel Dimantas is a great Brazilian musician and composer that few people know. This is gonna change as she releases her second album next year. Her way of composing and thinking about music is very close to mine. Besides that, she has an awesome clothing brand, named X-tudo (x-tudo.org) which I love and often use in my shows.
Joca
Joca is a longtime friend. We had a band during school named Almoço Nu (Naked Lunch). I have a great admiration for Joca and feel really happy to see him growing his solo career, accompanied by the producers of Reurbana- also longtime friends. Joca has already played as a special guest several times in my shows. He also features on my new album and I featured on his too.
Larinhx ft. Ciana
Larinhx is a badass producer and creative director who has collaborated with many great artists. This song, specifically, also features another young Brazilian singer that I love, Ciana, who took part on Joca’s debut album.
Ana Frango Elétrico will perform at the Moth Club in London on November 6th. Get your tickets here.
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Photo Credit: Hick Duarte
