Whether you call it Tropical New Wave or Urban Brazilian Disco – it\'s definitely some some brand new rhythms Da Cruz are coming up with on their 4th release „Disco e Progresso“. Nobody will want to miss Brazil in 2014! The same goes for Da Cruz from Bern/Switzerland, the Group surrounding Brazilian Singer Mariana Da Cruz. In April 2014 they will release two new albums (double CD). One \"bright\", one \"dark\". \"This is the only way to adequately reflect what is going on in Brazil at the moment”, says Mariana Da Cruz. \"On one Album you will find the easy-going side of Brazil, on the other you will find the soundtrack to a riot.“ Considering their confidence in pushing musical boundaries forward you\'d probably locate Da Cruz anywhere close to M.I.A. or Skip & Die. On „Disco e Progresso“ this four-piece band miraculously succeeds in creating some highly contemporary yet classical, deeply urban and open-minded fusion of styles. Never pretentious and always challenging to your everyday routine of listening habits, „Disco e Progresso“ somehow manages to touch your heart and move your hips at the same time. It\'s no surprise to hear that Da Cruz has recently played the greatest venues and festivals between London and São Paulo, Paris and Berlin. So for everyone already familiar with Da Cruz: listen up! \"Disco e Progresso“ is the most colorful and energetic record to be released by this group. More than ever, Da Cruz blends Elements of 70s-Disco-Funk, Dancehall, Kuduro, New Wave, Breakbeat, Samba and Indie-Rock with state of the art electronic music. \"Comfy Bossa-Nova must wait“, says Mariana Da Cruz. Most songs revolve around Brazil, a country stuck between revolution and party, between light-heartedness and upswing, as Mariana Da Cruz says. \"As long as I can remember big promises have been made about Brazil\'s rise to economical stability and power, but nothing ever happened.“ Mariana moved to Switzerland nine years ago, yet still cares a lot about her people. \"I belong to a disenchanted generation, and it is so good to see that my folks seemed to have finally woken up from their apathy.“ Da Cruz\'s story is that of one of two musicians with highly different temperaments. Working in Brazil and Portugal in 2005 as a Bossa-Nova singer Da Cruz accidentally ran into Ane H., former singer and musical mastermind of Swiss Industrial-Electro-Pioneers Swamp Terrorists. “While Elis Regina and Ed Motta were major influences”, she says, “We both wanted to create something new without giving up all our past. Da Cruz is the result of this effort.”