This Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, NPR Music celebrates artists from all corners of Latinidad with an ‘El Tiny’ takeover.
Luiza Brina has emerged as a young and idiosyncratic voice of Brazil, with transcendental music as quiet as it’s cosmic. On the Tiny Desk, she presents a looking set of orações that function meditations, irrespective of your religious journey.
A bit over a decade in the past, Brina suffered panic assaults and, as a strategy to re-center herself, started to write down a sequence of prayers regardless of not having any non secular background. Prayers for comings and goings, hopes and goals, a world falling aside. This observe shaped the premise of Prece, considered one of NPR Music’s greatest albums of 2024, the place psychedelic symphonies commune with the sacred. That she comes from the southeastern state of Minas Gerais — residence to Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges — speaks to the lineage of soul seekers that she inherits. Impressed by Música widespread brasileira and artists from the late ’60s tropicália motion, Brina experiments with folks and pop traditions, layering electronics with orchestral maneuvers.
For this efficiency, Brina is entrance and middle together with her seven-string nylon guitar and results pedals, accompanied by woodwinds, keys, electronics and percussion that honors her Brazilian heritage. The preparations, scaled all the way down to a chamber ensemble, are nonetheless simply as complicated and eccentric. But it surely’s her voice — vivid and curious, regular and pure — that guides these orações, leaving us with this knowledge: “Don’t distinguish God from happiness.”
SET LIST
- “Oração 18 (pra viver junto)”
- “Oração 2”
- “Oração 17 (risco)”
- “Oração 15 (oração à Cobra Grande)”
- “Oração 16 (dios/adiós)”
MUSICIANS
- Luiza Brina: vocals, guitar
- Lucas Ferrari: keys, electronics
- Guilherme Kastrup: drums, percussion
- Patrícia Garcia: oboe
- Ester Muniz: bassoon
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Lars Gotrich
- Director/Editor: Maia Stern
- Audio Technical Director: Josephine Nyounai
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Maia Stern, Kara Body, Joshua Bryant
- Audio Engineer: Andie Huether
- Manufacturing Assistant: Dhanika Pineda
- Photographer: Grace Raver
- Tiny Desk Group: Ashley Pointer, Josh Newell
- Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
