Afropop Worldwide

In Brazil you can’t swing a pandeiro without hitting a Bossa Nova singer. It’s been 60 years and still the tradition of Vinicius, Jobim and Gilberto lives on in most young throats seeking a recording studio. But Da Cruz, a Swiss-based group revolving around Brazilian singer Mariana da Cruz, stands against what they call the “comfy Bossa Nova” -- you know the type, those innocuous lounge tunes that coffee shops have come to appropriate over the years. In “Sistema Subversiva,” the group's latest effort, pleasant samba beats and Portuguese lyrics are indeed present, but they get tossed and turned at the hand of producer Ane H. from the Swiss industrial-electro pioneers Swamp Terrorists.