Phylipe Nunes Araújo

Born in Caruaru and raised in Santa Cruz do Capibaribe (Pernambuco), Phylipe Nunes Araújo channels his upbringing in Brazil’s rugged Agreste into ten songs of understated power.

Here is “Brazilian music from the Agreste of Pernambuco”, as he describes it — where the old-world folklore of junina quadrilhas and cordel poetry meets intimate pop songcraft.

Across tracks like “Bixin”, “Asa”, “Santa Cruz” and “Subindo a Ladeira”, Phylipe reworks traditional rhythms — coco, baião, maracatu — with sophisticated nylon-string guitar, delicate jazz-tinged harmonies and lyricism rooted in place.

The production is modest but resonant: recorded in São Paulo with collaborators Bruno Berle, Batata Boy and Nyron Higor, the results sound like dusk-toned postcards from the back-streets of northeastern Brazil, where colour, texture, memory and psyche all blur.

This isn’t flashy — it's the kind of album you listen to when the lights are low, vinyl hums under focus, and you let yourself drift into another terrain. For listeners who trade the broad sweep of “world-music spectacle” for the quiet heartbeat of a region’s sound, this debut is a gem.

File under: Northeastern Brazilian folk-pop, introspective MPB, guitar-driven modern Linae.

Good for: late-night listening, crate-diggers after deep cuts, record-room introspection.