Crib Notes

Merriweather Post Pavilion

This week Criminal Records announced that the store will host a New Year’s Day listening party for Animal Collective’s forthcoming album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, due Jan. 6th on vinyl and Jan. 20th on CD. The album was recorded at Oxford, Mississippi’s Sweet Tea Recording Studio with Atlanta’s very own Ben Allen (Gnarls Barkley, All the Saints, Constellations) at the helm and is being released by Domino.

The listening party starts at 4 p.m. on Thurs., Jan. 1st. According to Criminal’s website the store will be open from noon ’til 6 p.m. or so on New Year’s Day and will be offering greens, black-eyed peas and hopefully a few other good luck foods to foster high hopes for the upcoming year.

in the meantime Criminal’s free weekly Beer Thirty concerts continue every Saturday afternoon. Thus far the schedule includes:

Dec. 13th — The Features at 4 p.m.
Jan. 3rd @ — Electric Cycles (formerly El Capitan) at 4 p.m.
Jan. 17th — Batata Doce at 4 p.m.
Feb. 7th — Young Antiques at 4 p.m.

Bands or DJs interested in performing can contact Shannon@criminal.com for details and availability.

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For today’s Roll Call we call out Leticia Arioli of Batata Doce.

Who are you?
I am working on finding that one out.

Describe yourself in three words.
Sweet & Sour mix.

Who — dead or alive — would most you like to meet?
Bono, ever since I read the book Killing Bono. Its a love and hate thing. But the guy can engage an entire stadium, you gotta commend him for it.

Who would you most like to slap in the face?
Any disrespectful, condescending men. Seriously, respect the ladies. They are pretty, cherish them, don’t abuse them.

What song do you wish you had written?
Just about every song I love. One of them would be “When Doves Cry” by Prince.

Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?
Presley and his gyrating hips. I got my mom a wall clock of Elvis Presley with his hips moving to every tick. Now she’s got Elvis’ hips forever moving.

LP, CD or MP3?
LP!! But I am a traitor, I have mostly mp3s now. But its not the same… I hate them in fact.

If you could start one trend, what would it be?
A hugging fever. Like, instead of nodding your head, you just hugged everyone. Hey, we kiss everybody in Brazil, so its doable right?

If you could end one trend, what would it be?
Fake vintage (brand new & expensive) anything.

With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
That mysterious, gentlemanly and unattainable vampire from that teen flick Twilight. And I am not kidding. But he doesn’t exist, so I guess I have to say John Cusack.

Batata Doce plays 97 Estoria tonight (Thurs., Dec. 11th). Free. 9 p.m.

“Menina” MP3

Batata Doce Live See Through Souls A Menina

(Photo courtesy Casatelli Photography)

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Tonight Ani Cordero and husband, former Rock*A*Teens drummer Chris Verene, return to Atlanta in support of Cordero’s latest album, De Donde Eres (Bloodshot Records).

Both Chris and Ani are former Atlanta residence who now reside in Brooklyn. The new album finds the group delving deeper in to the rhythmic intricacies of Latin music while toning down guitar-driven, indie rock elements of the music. The album is sung entirely in Spanish, and is recommended for those who like Nick Drake, Belle and Sebastian, Os Mutantes, Adron and so on.

To give a listen to the album’s first single, “Ruleta Rusa,” click here.

There is also a pretty gorgeous video for “Ruleta Rusa” that can be watched by clicking below.

Cordero, “Ruleta Rusa” from Bloodshot Records on Vimeo.

Atlanta acts, The Holland Dutch and Batata Doce will also be performing. Batata Doce has been touring the east coast recently and has kept a pretty intensive tour blog/journal of their activities posted on Pine Magazine, which you can read here.

$10. 9 p.m.The Earl, 488 Flat Shoals Rd. 404-522-3950. www.badearl.com.

Photo by Cody Ranaldo

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Batata Doce is a Georgia-born outfit that combines the worlds of Brazilian folk music and psychedelic Appalachia. Vocalist/guitarist Leticia Arioli hails from Florianopolis, Brazil and her voice brings an authentic spice to the city rhythms and melodies of guitarist Russell Owens, who hails from the mountains of western North Carolina.

Leticia crafts a soulfully high-energy sound of the Portuguese/English variety, while Russell delivers a more traditionally rock-influenced and finger picking guitar style. The two lead a procession of musicians that includes Justin Hughes (guitar), Justin Sias (bass) and Todd Morrison (drums), Todd Barnett (saxophone) and Ripley Torres (percussion).

The group’s self-released, three-song demo (which can be heard here) evoke smooth, Latin lounge sounds and baroque jazz that conceal hints of pop minimalism and garage rock rhythms.

This Sun., Sept. 21  Batata Doce will hit the road for a few tour dates stretching up and down the east coast.

Click below for tour dates.

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