Critic's evaluation
Another material arrives in the Brazilian musical universe at the end of the third quarter. Written by EVEHIVE, PISA PISA, the third EP by the DJ and music producer from São Gonçalo (RJ), focuses on the duality between what is raw and what is delicate.
The ambient texture mixes acid and dark. Curiously, the sounds of subtle sharpness that stand out make the listener recycle in their memory the aesthetic adopted in Bonde do Tigrão's songs. Curiously, however, the sound of the drums brings an essence that is at once Latin and African, with its simplicities of afrobeat and axé. Bela Solta is a repetitive track, but, interestingly, it doesn't rely on the use of sub-bass, even though it's immersed in the field of pancadão.
Whether unreasonable or not, the rhythm created in the new horizon comes with the same cadence as that of the previous song. With the insertion of repetitive lyrical verses in which EVEHIVE pronounces "vô socar", a phrase homonymous with the song's title, and his own name, Vô Socar features the hollow sound of the kick drum highlighting the rhythmic beat. With sub-bass creating a curious strident texture, the song also has curious tinkling sounds of large bells permeating the shallow melodic context. Even so, the quality of Vô Socar is undeniable when it comes to inviting you to dance. The song has an infectious instrumental that suggests, almost instinctively, that the listener should start dancing wherever they are.
Between the sonar of an almost shrill tinkling, the standard beat of the pancadão begins, giving way to a complete and truly verbalized first verse. This is how a slightly deep tone with pubescent rasps presents itself to the listener. In front of him is EVEHIVE, who, without delay, puts the story of Fazer Fumaça on the table. Between verses with a sensual and ejaculatory lyrical interpretation, the singer transforms the track, with the help of Zaila's bass and PAMKA's bittersweet timbre, into a veritable orgy based on the art of smoking weed. Filled with colloquialisms and with the support of the sub-bass without exaggeration, Fazer Fumaça is undoubtedly the strongest and most commercially underground track on PISA PISA.
It's short and mostly instrumental. Despite its aesthetic, it doesn't invite the listener to walk on the floor of the favela dances. After all, PISA PISA has a different purpose. It leaves the comfort zone of the favela, but even so, it doesn't run away from the origins of its parent genre of pancadão.
Between acidic, strident and tinkling textures, what EVEHIVE proposes is an invitation to dance and a mesmerizing hypnotism for experimenting with the psychedelic through its echoing, squawking sonars. There's no doubt, however, that it's not the instrumental tracks that will stick in the listener's memory.
Despite Bela Solta, with its digitalized sonar providing a mix of Afro-Brazilian rhythms such as axé and afrobeat, it is Fazer Fumaça, with its double featuring, that easily penetrates the listener's mind. Almost promoting the so-called funk proibidão, the track, as well as promoting a marginalized behavioural culture, lays bare the reality of the big cities, especially Rio de Janeiro.
With these points in mind, PISA PISA, supported by DJ Bout's mixing engineering, resulted in an EP that mixed Latin with African. Rio with the global. From this base recipe, the work exuded everything from traditional pancadão to genres such as axé and afrobeat.
Rounding off the technical scope is the cover art. Signed by Tatá Barreto and Kakubo, it features EVEHIVE in the spotlight, but with cartoonish contours, almost as if they had been drawn from comic books. Showing off her clothes and adorned by a black background with red strokes, she brings in marginality, street culture and the urban. All environments through which the EP moves freely.
Released on 09/22/2023 via MAMBArec, PISA PISA is an EP that highlights the marginal and what is denied by the conservative masses. A work that appeals to the peripheries, but also to the tolerant. A compilation of songs that goes beyond the borders of the favela and its need to prove itself through the shock of reality. It's the rough standing out against the delicate.
