GIRA MUNDO

After working as a Sound Producer for the group "beret", Mitugu Okuhara started GIRA MUNDO as his solo project in 2005. His concept was to create music with "a Brazillian feeling which is not an imitation of it's roots, but a fresh and new interpretations that people in NY, London, and Paris may have". His love, respects and recognition to Brazillian music has made him able to create and propose new style and form, while inheriting it's roots. GIRA MUNDO will release two new albums"Ponto de Partida - San Paulo - " and "Ponto de Partida - Rio -" in early May 2006. Each of these album is recorded at each of the cities with it's native musicians whose working worldwide. These projects tha GIRA MUNDO has accomplished drew attentions from genre in and out of Brazilian music.