Céu | World music review

Hackney Empire, LondonThis is a great time for Brazilian music in London, with those celebrated veterans of the 60s Tropicália movement, Os Mutantes, Maria Bethânia and Gilberto Gil, all appearing at Festival Brazil on the South Bank. But for new music, the key event – part of Blaze, the Barbican's summer music and dance festival – was this intriguing, if mildly unsatisfactory, show at Hackney Empire, where Brazil's new star gave her first major London concert. Mysteriously, however, Céu...

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