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New Album by Daniela Mercury
Jon Pareles- The New York Times-12/09/2011

The Brazilian songwriter and singer Daniela Mercury titled her latest album, “Canibália” (“Cannibalism”), to allude to the 1928 “Manifesto Antropófago” (“Cannibal Manifesto”), a defining work of Brazilian modernism by the poet Oswald de Andrade, which praises Brazilian culture for devouring and digesting other cultures. That’s a declaration of serious ambition that the album lives up to.
Ms. Mercury expands on concepts that have run through her career by carrying regional rhythms (particularly those of her home state, Bahia) into up-to-the-minute pop, embracing Brazil’s ethnic and cultural hybrids (particularly Afro-Brazilian culture, although Ms. Mercury is white), remembering the past while transforming it. “Canibália” is smart, euphoric, time-tangling Brazilian pop: as traditional as a samba band or a carnival beat at one moment, an excursion into electronics, hip-hop or jazz the next. Although the album has misfires, including its two English-language forays, they are outnumbered by delights.
Ms. Mercury and her producers melt down genres and eras. “Oyá por Nós” (invoking the Yoruba deity of wind and storms, Oyá), written and sung by Ms. Mercury and the Bahian powerhouse Margareth Menezes, shifts between percussion that hints at Afro-Brazilian Candomblé ritual and programming that gallops toward a drum-and-bass dance club. “O Que É Que a Baiana Tem” (“What Is It That the Bahian Woman Has?”), an electronic duet with Carmen Miranda from 1939, doesn’t backdate Ms. Mercury; it pulls Miranda into a barrage of added percussion and horns, with funk guitar bubbling underneath. “A Vida É Um Carnaval” (“Life Is a Carnival”), a Portuguese translation of a Celia Cruz hit, mingles samba, merengue saxophones, jazz chords, a rapped exhortation and keyboards that hint at African thumb piano — a brilliantly plotted, insouciantly executed pan-Afro-Latin romp.
Although “Canibália” appeared in Brazil in 2009, its United States release was apparently awaiting Ms. Mercury’s North American tour, which starts on Oct. 7 in New York at the Best Buy Theater. The delay provided a bonus: the North American package also includes a DVD of Ms. Mercury’s concert on Dec. 31 for hundreds of thousands of people on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, in which she not just belts new and old songs but also dances through them alongside the Balé Folclórico da Bahia.