ÍNGREME (Transfusão Noise Records) LP

ÍNGREME is a 2022 album by Oruã, released on member Lê Almeida's Brazilian label Transfusão Noise Records. Oruã was born in downtown Rio de Janeiro in late 2016, around the corner from the parliamentary coup that ended for many people some belief in our democracy. Recordings on old cassette tapes made in the cramped Escritório in the middle of the city yielded two albums and an EP very representative of the atmosphere that hovered at the end of the last decade: “Sem Benção / Sem Credça” (2017), “Romã” (2019), and the EP “Tudo Posso” (2019) were all released in Brazil via Transfusão Noise Records and in the US via IFB Records. In 2018, an election year and that of a national trucker drivers’ strike, Oruã crossed the country and crossed borders. Through a large number of cities, capitals and small towns, the band traveled outside of Rio de Janeiro more intensely, beyond the usual Rio-São Paulo axis. Taking the BR-101 they reached Natal, cut through Bahia, and then down to Uruguay, also t