A working name assembled from the surnames of its two man team, Jackson Conti hurdles generations and genres as it swings like a summer cocktail - sweetly simple with intoxicating fun. Ivan "Mamao" Conti is an Brazilian percussionist extraordinaire, fueling the rhythms of Brazil's most famous artist(Milton Nasimento, Gal Costa, Jorge Benjor). But its was his early 80's group, Azymuth, that filtered into the record crates of left-field producer Madlib (aka Otis Jackson Jr.), who eventually crafted his own renditions of Azymuth's classic songs. After an encouraged encounter between the two, Madlib left Brazil with an hour and a half of Conti's solo rhythms. In a similar nature to his jazzy Yesterday's New Quintet outfit, Madlib constructs an ode to jazz samba and bossa nova from Conti drumming. Flip flopping between seductively soothing jazz ("São Paulo Nights" and "Papaia") to up-tempo festival shakers ("Nao Tem Nada Nao"), Sujinho is the sound of fluttering summer high life. Drink umbrella not included.
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