Dancing in the Dark: Forro's Mauro

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BRAZIL IS SO SEDUCTIVE that it can make a simple musical style that uses a zabumba (bass drum), an accordion and the sexiest instrument of all time — the triangle — sound like a mating call.

Forro is a century-old type of dance and song from northeastern Brazil, and its traditional lyrical content generally consists of love, sex, romance, sex, passion and sex. Oh, and homesickness, too.

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