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Em Julho

Elsa Johanna Mohr | Flávio Nunes

Em Julho

Price: € 14.95
Format: CD
Label: Double Moon Records
UPC: 0608917148428
Catnr: DMCHR 71484
Release date: 17 July 2026
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Double Moon Records
UPC
0608917148428
Catalogue number
DMCHR 71484
Release date
17 July 2026
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Em Julho is the second album by singer Elsa Johanna Mohr and guitarist Flávio Nunes, following their 2023 debut Passadinha. Recorded in Bonn in August 2025, the album brings together Brazilian classics and original songs in an intimate, warm setting shaped by voice, guitar, and subtle rhythmic detail. The repertoire moves from “Água de Coco” and “Tico-Tico no Fubá” to Mohr’s own compositions, including “Beijo da Lua,” “Jaguar,” and the title track “Em Julho.”

Drawing on Mohr’s deep connection to Brazilian language and culture and Nunes’s virtuosic seven-string guitar playing, Em Julho blends Música Popular Brasileira, singer-songwriter intimacy, and jazz-inflected elegance. The result is a musical summer of warmth, longing, and Brazilian joie de vivre light, lyrical, and transportive.

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Elsa Johanna Mohr (vocals)

Mohr was born in Düsseldorf in 1990. Even as a teenager, she wrote her own songs in German and English and sang in her own bands. She spent a year abroad in Foz do Iguaçu in the state of Paraná, Brazil, and after graduating from high school completed an internship at the Goethe-Institut in Salvador, Bahia. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Munich and Montpellier, focusing on Portuguese and Brazilian literary studies, with a thesis on the Brazilian composer Dorival Caymmi (1914–2008) and the role of women in his songs. She then studied jazz vocals at the Institute of Music at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, including with Simin Tander, Tobias Christl, and Efrat Alony. She also participated in workshops with,...
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Mohr was born in Düsseldorf in 1990. Even as a teenager, she wrote her own songs in German and English and sang in her own bands. She spent a year abroad in Foz do Iguaçu in the state of Paraná, Brazil, and after graduating from high school completed an internship at the Goethe-Institut in Salvador, Bahia. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Munich and Montpellier, focusing on Portuguese and Brazilian literary studies, with a thesis on the Brazilian composer Dorival Caymmi (1914–2008) and the role of women in his songs.

She then studied jazz vocals at the Institute of Music at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, including with Simin Tander, Tobias Christl, and Efrat Alony. She also participated in workshops with, among others, Becca Stevens and Dan Weiss, and performed on stage as a backing vocalist alongside the Afro-Brazilian jazz and soul singer Ed Motta.

She collaborates with Brazilian guitarists Flávio Nunes and Alex de Macedo. She is also a member of the quartet ANTIGUA, for which she composes music influenced by Latin American rhythms and Gypsy jazz, and writes lyrics in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, and German. Since 2018, Mohr has lived in Cologne, and for her solo project she occasionally invites guest musicians.

With her vocal trio LUAH, she won the audience award at the JazzTube Festival in 2019 and performed at the Pantheon Theater in Bonn. In 2020, she was a scholarship holder of the Norbert Janssen Foundation, which supports “young people with talents and passions.” With LUAH’s second album MO VI MENTO, she won the German Jazz Prize in April 2023 in the category “Vocal Album of the Year.”

As a freelance singer, she teaches vocals and is a member of the KUS collective, which offers workshops on body and voice throughout Germany.


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Flávio Nunes (guitar)

Originally from São Paulo - Brazil, Flávio Nunes is a guitarist with over 20 years of professional experience and currently living in Düsseldorf, Germany. Even before studying guitar and music education at the Londrina University in Paraná, Flávio played in numerous bands and various music projects from Samba de Raiz, Choro, MPB, Forró and Bossa Nova to Blues, Reggae and Jazz. Specialized in the traditional cavaquinho and seven-string guitar (sete cordas) - an acoustic guitar used primarily in Choro (or Chorinho) and Samba music - Flávio's strong musical interests next to Brazilian Jazz also include Jazz Manouche or better known as Gypsy Jazz.   In the past, Flávio has performed in a variety of venues, theaters and jazz clubs in Germany and São Paulo (SESC, Jazz...
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Originally from São Paulo - Brazil, Flávio Nunes is a guitarist with over 20 years of professional experience and currently living in Düsseldorf, Germany. Even before studying guitar and music education at the Londrina University in Paraná, Flávio played in numerous bands and various music projects from Samba de Raiz, Choro, MPB, Forró and Bossa Nova to Blues, Reggae and Jazz.

Specialized in the traditional cavaquinho and seven-string guitar (sete cordas) - an acoustic guitar used primarily in Choro (or Chorinho) and Samba music - Flávio's strong musical interests next to Brazilian Jazz also include Jazz Manouche or better known as Gypsy Jazz.

In the past, Flávio has performed in a variety of venues, theaters and jazz clubs in Germany and São Paulo (SESC, Jazz nos Fundos, Bourbon Street Music Club, among others) as well as international Jazz festivals throughout Brasil, including the Festival BB Seguros de Blues e Jazz, the Bourbon Jazz Festival in Paraty and Festival de Jazz Manouche in Piracicaba.
With a sincere passion for music education, Flávio has been teaching individual guitar lessons to adults and children for over 25 years. His specific interest is in auditory rhythmic development in children.


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