
The berimbau, a one-stringed musical instrument that looks like a bow from a bow-and-arrow, is customarily strung with the wire found within a car tire. When Afro-Brazilian percussionist Nan Vasconcelos set out to build his own, however, he strung it instead with a single...

The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Nan Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk. Based in Recife, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and Paris, Nan played with musicians as varied as Egberto Gismonti,...