Blues

October, 1997

Arto Lindsay, the Brazilian-raised New York mainstay, long ago invented the guitar-noise music known as skronk. With the Ambitious Lovers and now solo, Lindsay moved on to something sweeter and sexier--Brazil's airy, rhythmically intricate bossa nova. Last year's O Corpo Sutil/The Subtle Body bridged the barrier between English and Portuguese while playing the style relatively straight. The new Mondo Civilizado (Bar/None, P.O. Box 1704, Hoboken, NJ 07030) mixes in drum-and-bass, Brazilian percus...