São Paulo-born percussionist and songwriter João Parahyba has paid a price for having conceived an album that did not follow the musical trends of the time when it was made.



In 1994 his album "Kyzumba" was rejected (only a small amount of copies was print on the label Visom) because it was allegedly too electronic. In 2001 the same album is regarded as an unplugged project by the producers at the label YB, who has just put out the disc. "Rica (Amabis) and Maurício (Tagliari) love that album, but they see it as an unplugged album of instrumental Brazilian music", Parahyba observes. He is one of the founding members of the legendary Trio Mocotó.



In the past João Parahyba had already been working with Ziriguiboom (he was a close musical partner of producer Suba, and has played percussion on Suba's acclaimed "São Paulo Confessions" album as well as on Bebel Gilberto's "Tanto Tempo"), so the association with Crammed's Brazilian imprint was only natural.