Laryssa Real (Artist of the Year, 2022)
Laryssa's voice is penetrating with a whipcrack when necessary but is fundamentally as solid and steady as she is. She's able to ride her own rhythm into other rhythms that are as aggressive and mobile as any in the world. I don't know the production process so I don't know how much it's her wending her way through rhythms, her being the center and rhythms being put around her, or her vocals being sampled and chopped into rhythm through technical means. Probably all of the above. So she's supported and punctuated by percussion, adorned in percussion; sometimes she is the percussion. She's been on several hundred tracks in the last several years, all collaborations, different configurations. Usually she's the only woman. And usually she's the central motion of the track, and the central emotion.
And that's all I know, pretty much. When I type "Laryssa Real" into search engines, they don't locate much, and don't locate her. I assume her orbit is round Recife rather than São Paulo, but that's an assumption based on the sound and the brega funk hashtag, not on any journalism. Google isn't giving me lyrics even, so I've been painfully transcribing TikTok captions into Google Translate. From what I can find, I gather that sex acts are a frequent topic of discussion. This disappoints me because I'm hoping for canny, witty commentary and comebacks on all sorts of subjects, to match the sound of her voice. And maybe within the range of what's allotted to her, slyness and wit are the actual truth. I don't know.
At any rate, it often seems like fun:
Neguin Da Base, Laryssa Real, Gelado No Beat - Vem De Boca
[EDIT: Okay, the TikTok embed code doesn't work anymore - or I can't get it to work, anyway - so here's the direct link, and a pic.]
https://www.tiktok.com/@laryssareeal/video/7137409016052993286
A sampling from the last couple of years:
Zoi De Gato, Marlinho RDC, Laryssa Real - Os Ratos da Favela
A slap, and a snake uncoiling, but still incredibly friendly (for a ghetto rat). The other two vocalists sound a bit dogged by comparison. The mayhem she puts in her voice - is that the producer sampling it and adding manipulations? I think she just does it.
Neguin ZN, Klose Vilao, Laryssa Real - Vem Me Comer Vai
The atmosphere is slow humidity but penetrated by gun cocks and dings and bells. The vocalists keep cutting in on each other, so it's as if each finishes the others' sentences and completes each other's beats. Laryssa sounds happily wicked - unless I'm misinterpreting and she sounds distressed.
Neguin Da Base, Laryssa Real, Gelado No Beat - Vem de Boca
The one I TikTokked above. It's date night for Laryssa and Neguin, with a hippopotamus of a tuba to undergird the candle-lit cheek-to-cheek. But then producer Gelado no Beat shoots ball bearings across the floor, which our lovers delightedly dance upon, keeping their balance as if it's the most natural thing in the world - though for all her fun and jitteriness, Laryssa's still the center of gravity, the steady hand.
Anderson Neiff, MC Terror, Laryssa Real, MC Magrinho - O Neiff Me Ligou
Beats like machine guns, gunshots like gunshots, and a tour de force from the vocalists who keep up their own rapid fire. In the back, behind all this genius, a slow synth makes a sad, imperturbable descent. You wonder how this music emerges, with so much in it.
Same old disclaimer: With my talent for imposing deadlines and then missing them, I eventually hit upon the idea of making June the month to write up the previous year's Artist Of The Year - March being the month for my Top Singles. (Um, the last I posted a completed year's singles list was the one for 2017, which I posted the following December.) This time, I lit a fire under myself by finally posting 2021's artist this May and snapped to it to get this one up in June; but no, we see it in September, which is certainly better than losing it to a summer love, though I hope you enjoyed the Seo Taiji post, and MC Loma, and the spare accompaniments and openhearted vocals that intervened.
This entry was originally posted at https://koganbot.dreamwidth.org/389957.html. Comments still welcome here, there, and anywhere.
And that's all I know, pretty much. When I type "Laryssa Real" into search engines, they don't locate much, and don't locate her. I assume her orbit is round Recife rather than São Paulo, but that's an assumption based on the sound and the brega funk hashtag, not on any journalism. Google isn't giving me lyrics even, so I've been painfully transcribing TikTok captions into Google Translate. From what I can find, I gather that sex acts are a frequent topic of discussion. This disappoints me because I'm hoping for canny, witty commentary and comebacks on all sorts of subjects, to match the sound of her voice. And maybe within the range of what's allotted to her, slyness and wit are the actual truth. I don't know.
At any rate, it often seems like fun:
Neguin Da Base, Laryssa Real, Gelado No Beat - Vem De Boca
[EDIT: Okay, the TikTok embed code doesn't work anymore - or I can't get it to work, anyway - so here's the direct link, and a pic.]
https://www.tiktok.com/@laryssareeal/video/7137409016052993286
A sampling from the last couple of years:
Zoi De Gato, Marlinho RDC, Laryssa Real - Os Ratos da Favela
Click to viewA slap, and a snake uncoiling, but still incredibly friendly (for a ghetto rat). The other two vocalists sound a bit dogged by comparison. The mayhem she puts in her voice - is that the producer sampling it and adding manipulations? I think she just does it.
Neguin ZN, Klose Vilao, Laryssa Real - Vem Me Comer Vai
The atmosphere is slow humidity but penetrated by gun cocks and dings and bells. The vocalists keep cutting in on each other, so it's as if each finishes the others' sentences and completes each other's beats. Laryssa sounds happily wicked - unless I'm misinterpreting and she sounds distressed.
Neguin Da Base, Laryssa Real, Gelado No Beat - Vem de Boca
The one I TikTokked above. It's date night for Laryssa and Neguin, with a hippopotamus of a tuba to undergird the candle-lit cheek-to-cheek. But then producer Gelado no Beat shoots ball bearings across the floor, which our lovers delightedly dance upon, keeping their balance as if it's the most natural thing in the world - though for all her fun and jitteriness, Laryssa's still the center of gravity, the steady hand.
Anderson Neiff, MC Terror, Laryssa Real, MC Magrinho - O Neiff Me Ligou
Beats like machine guns, gunshots like gunshots, and a tour de force from the vocalists who keep up their own rapid fire. In the back, behind all this genius, a slow synth makes a sad, imperturbable descent. You wonder how this music emerges, with so much in it.
Same old disclaimer: With my talent for imposing deadlines and then missing them, I eventually hit upon the idea of making June the month to write up the previous year's Artist Of The Year - March being the month for my Top Singles. (Um, the last I posted a completed year's singles list was the one for 2017, which I posted the following December.) This time, I lit a fire under myself by finally posting 2021's artist this May and snapped to it to get this one up in June; but no, we see it in September, which is certainly better than losing it to a summer love, though I hope you enjoyed the Seo Taiji post, and MC Loma, and the spare accompaniments and openhearted vocals that intervened.
This entry was originally posted at https://koganbot.dreamwidth.org/389957.html. Comments still welcome here, there, and anywhere.