Cuidado Madame

Cuidado Madame (Caution Madam), Arto Lindsay's first full- length album of new material since 2004’s Salt. The album is titled after a little known 1970 Julio Bressane film about a housemaid who cheerfully and brutally murders one mistress after another. Produced by Lindsay and his cohorts and musicians Melvin Gibbs, Paul Wilson, Kassa Overall, Patrick Higgins, Ryu Takahashi and Thiago Nassif. Brazilian Candomblé rhythms (spiritual drum patterns that provoke possession and trance) served as a foundation for the record. The process began with the recording of the atabaques in North Eastern Brazil. Lindsay then added melodies and lyrics over these in a Brooklyn studio. What began with a desire to let Afro-Brazilian and Afro-American church music play off each other turned into a record of songs. New England captivity narratives, Bubble Era Japan and the Bay of Naples provide other coordinates.