ORUA - Passe LP Rap Howie Pyro

Howie Pyro

At times heavy

Curran and Giacinto Scelsi

and bandleader Alick Nkhata moved effortlessly between lonesome country slide

and their devotion to ignoring any sort of aesthetic border only adds greater resonance to this remarkable album’s title

ORUA - Passe LP Rap Howie PyroRio de Janeiro, where the mountains dramatically merge with the sea, is riddled with contradictions. Its a cliche to say that a city is full of contradictions, but Rio de Janeiro is not just any city. Many elements are often in opposition: the beauty of the coastline contrasting the decay of the center city; the wealth of the valleys and coastline at odds with the poverty of the hillside favelas and the periferia (periphery); the idyllic sand and surf