ossory
Rio de Janeiro was named for a river that was never there — a bay mistaken for a river's mouth in January 1502 — and this carioca duet detonates the five-hundred-year error through lost capitals, the Maracanã heartbreak, the girl from Ipanema, morro and asfalto, and white flowers for Iemanjá, all shouted with saudade for a marvellous city that kept the wrong name.
River Of January
Style
Fast Bahian carnival fusion of axé and samba-reggae at about 140 BPM, driven by a wall of tuned surdos, repique, timbau, agogo bells and a shrill apito whistle under punchy trio-elétrico brass stabs, sung by an equal male and female lead trading verses in a genuine carioca accent over huge call-and-response crowd choruses.