Juçara Marçal

𝙀𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘, "𝙀𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙙𝙤" 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙅𝙪ç𝙖𝙧𝙖 𝙈𝙖𝙧ç𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡, 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 — 𝙖 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙇𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙.

Released on São Paulo’s forward-thinking Goma Gringa label, the album presents Marçal — a founding member of avant-garde collective Metá Metá — at her most visceral and fearless. Fusing Afro-Brazilian rhythms, post-tropicalist songwriting, and experimental rock sensibilities, "Encarnado" feels like a living entity: raw, intense, and emotionally charged.

Her voice is at the centre of it all — commanding, ritualistic, and capable of immense tenderness and fury. The production, stripped to its essential elements, lets percussion, guitar, and voice intertwine in ritualistic dialogue, drawing from candomblé, samba, noise, and spoken word traditions.

More than just an album, "Encarnado" is an invocation — of ancestry, resistance, memory, and future — a deeply poetic and uncompromising work that cements Juçara Marçal’s place as one of Brazil’s most vital contemporary artists.