São Paulo Confessions is an album by the Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n-born musician Suba

Suba (musician)

Mitar "Suba" Subotić a.k.a Rex Illusivi was a Serbian-born musician and composer who was set to become one of Brazil's most prominent producers when he died in November 1999.-Biography:Born Mitar Subotić, he obtained a university degree in his hometown from the University of Novi Sad,...

—his musical account of life in that humid, foggy, and manic megalopolis.

Core musicians on the album are then 21-year-old vocalist Cibelle

Cibelle

Cibelle is a multi-media performance artist, singer-songwriter and music producer. Cibelle’s music is difficult to classify; she has been called a self-styled purveyor of “Tropical Punk”.-Biography:...

, and veteran percussionist João Parahyba; additional musicians include mangue

Mangue Bit

The mangue bit or mangue beat movement was a cultural movement created circa 1991 in the city of Recife in Northeast Brazil in reaction to the cultural and economical stagnation of the city...

 band Mestre Ambrosio, and guitarists Roberto Frejat, Edgar Scandurra, and Andre Geraissatti, and vocalists Katia B., Taciana, Joana Jones and Arnaldo Antunes.

Track listing

Written by: Tom Jobim (track 6), Antunes

Arnaldo Antunes

Arnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...

 (track 10), Béco (track 8), Cibelle

Cibelle

Cibelle is a multi-media performance artist, singer-songwriter and music producer. Cibelle’s music is difficult to classify; she has been called a self-styled purveyor of “Tropical Punk”.-Biography:...

 (track 8), Katia B. (track 4), Suba (tracks 1 to 5, 7 to 12), Taciana (tracks 1 and 2), Vinicius De Moraes

Vinicius de Moraes

Marcus Vinicius de Moraes , known as Vinicius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinho , was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Son of Lydia Cruz de Moraes and Clodoaldo Pereira da Silva Moraes, he was a seminal figure in contemporary Brazilian music...

(track 6)

1. Tantos Desejos (So Many Desires)
2. Você Gosta (I Know What You Like)
3. Na Neblina (In the Fog)
4. Segredo (Secret)
5. Antropófagos (Cannibals)
6. Felicidade (Happiness)
7. Um Dia Comum (Em SP) (A Normal Day (In São Paulo))
8. Sereia (Mermaid)
9. Samba Do Gringo Paulista (Paulista Gringo's Samba)
10. Abraço (Embrace)
11. Pecados da Madrugada (Sins Before Dawn)
12. A Noite Sem Fim (The Endless Night)