BRASIL 2015 Debut solo album from Rodrigo Amarante. A member of Devendra Banhart's live band and founding member of Brazilian / American rock supergroup Little Joy, Cavalo is a bold, honest and deeply personal album that chronicles Amarante's exile from Brazil to the USA. Amarante has lived in Los Angeles for the past six years and Cavalo radiates with a distinctly hazy, West Coast vibe, unfolding with a loose, dream-like quality where songs of different moods, languages and tempos bleed into each other: album opener 'Nada Em Vao' echoes with seductive-somnambulance, 'Hourglass' is a driven-psychedelic-stomper, 'Mon Nom' a sun-dappled French-language folk-tronic waltz whilst 'The Ribbon' radiates with a mesmerising celestial-ambience. Cavalo radiates an honest intimacy that seduces the listener, drawing comparison with the more atmospheric offerings from David Crosby, Bon Iver and Cat Power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hew6l42KL-E