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Much like supermodel Gisele Bündchen, the TrocaBrahma festival provides a taste of Brazil with quite a bit of Anglo crossover potential. Unlike Gisele, we're pretty sure the performers at this year's festival-- including Os Mutantes, Bonde do Role, Gruff Rhys, Four Tet, and Optimo's JD Twitch, to name a few-- will appear fully clothed, though you never know with those Bonde kids.

The idea behind TrocaBrahma is to fly a handful of UK artists over to Brazil to pair up with a handful of Brazilian artists on collaborative material. Then, they fly the Brits (or Scots or...Welshes?) and the Brazilians back to the UK to perform the fruits of their labor.

This year, the festival will take place at venues in London, Liverpool, and Glasgow from July 26-29, and the artists pairings are as follows: Os Mutantes with JD Twitch; Bonde do Role, Radioclit, and Amanda Blank (hosted by Diplo); Gruff Rhys and Tony da Gatorra; Four Tet and Open Field Church; King Creosote and Romulo Froes; and Ben Westbeech and Tita Lima (hosted by Gilles Peterson).

To make it even sweeter, the Os Mutantes and JD Twitch performances in Glasgow and Liverpool will be Os Mutantes' first shows in those cities.

Brazil will not be totally devoid of live love, however, as a few collaborative gigs are scheduled at Studio SP in São Paulo for the end of May and beginning of June. On May 8, Bonde do Role, Amanda Blank, and Radioclit performed there. (Sorry, we're a little late on this.) On May 29, it will be Four Tet and Open Field Church. Finally, on June 3, both the Gruff Rhys/Tony da Gatorra and the King Creosote/Romulo Froes collaborations will hit the stage.

All of the artists performing at TrocaBrahma will perform full live sets of their own in addition to the collaborative sets. When the dust finally settles on the festivities, festival organizers will release a series of TrocaBrahma-related podcasts.