s: Otto -- he's put out two albums. the first "Samba Pra Burro" is a great mix of beautiful brazilian melodies mixed with tons of electronics. some super heavy jungle breaks, but always the song comes first. his second album is "Condom Black". way less reliant on the electronic dance beats, but still some remnants. it's almost apt to describe him on this album as a male Bebel Gilberto. some of the songs are a little too sweet, but it's a great album nonetheless.
Tom Ze, even though he's an oldie, his music is still a goodie. forget the fact that Tortoise was his back up band.
d:Ed Motta. one of the worst albums i've ever heard in my life. i listened to it once and instantly sold it back. he's supposed to be brazilian soul, but it was really bad slick over produced modern disco.
Rita Lee. ex-lead singer of the mutantes. i picked up one of her recent solo albums for way cheap. it was completely boring AOR. kinda like a brazilian Sting.
Max De Castro. cool looking cover. kinda ick music. pretty much does modern american r'n'b in portugese. there were some nice soulful moments, but most of it was just way too slick.
on the dividing line:Mundo Livre S.A. this is Otto's band before he went solo. they're part of that whole Mangue beat sound. had some good songs. did a bunch of genre-fucks, but my biggest problem with them was that they were around in the mid-90s and kinda had that grunge-alternative sound. i often wondered if they weren't from brazil, would i really like them? so i sold it.
still wondering about Carlinhos Brown and Chico Science. never heard them, but heard lots about them. and i hear there's some brazilian hip hop out there?
― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
they normally sound like this, "Even though this isn't our favorite of [so and so]'s album, we still think it's great and you should buy it"
― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
Never ever trust a Dusty Groove review 'cuz they refer to free jazz as "hippy dippy."
― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
but i thought that was obvious
― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Pretty spot on, Jason except you forgot the obigatory exclamation point!
Does anyone else find this extremely annoying!
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes but
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
You're right, above, about Dusty Groove and their reviews, although the store itself in Chicago is kinda nice and they do have good stuff if you're into classic '60s Brazilian pop and suchlike...
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 06:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
i actually have a song by Otto ona comp, it's an intensely moody tribute to Bob Marley and it really rolls, i've liked it for years.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 06:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
Jason, you should definitely check out Chico Science – I think he was brilliant and his death seemed like the end of era and maybe death of mangue (friends of mine in Brazil who work with music were devastated when he died). The scene seems to be going strong tho and his old band Nacao Zumbi is still putting stuff out. I’d recommend checking out Chico first and then if you like him going for NZ. Start with “Afrociberdelia” as it should give you a sense of whether you want to go further or not.
Lately I’ve been enjoying DJ Dolores & Orchestra Santa Massa, which has traditional fiddle, etc over various beats. I don’t love the entire entire album but the first couple of tracks get me grinning ear-to-ear whenever I listen to ‘em. The DJ approach to mangue.
Zuco 103 takes a different approach to mixing electronica with Brazilian. It is more clubbeats oriented as opposed to mangue etc. and live at least Zuco are huge amounts of fun. Their new album has gotten pretty good reviews , but their first “Outro Lado” had only about 4 songs I really liked with the rest being ‘eh’ so I’m waiting for a free copy.
Lenine’s album “Na Prassao” is great. Samba mixed with rock and electronica is a v. basic description. Most people I know who are more knowledgeable about the contemp. scene than me are are big fans.
Others I like if not blown away - Pedro Luis A Parade (again mixing electronica/brazilian but from a more rock perspective) Suba (pretty strightforward samba & bossa nova over loops, “Sao Paulo Confessions” is his big work – he also produced, among others, Bebel’s "Tanto Tempo")
Seen Max de Castro but have no memory of his performance (generally not a positive sign)
From the second generation of Brazilians, as mentioned above, Bebel is doing good stuff. Only heard one track by Moreno Veloso so can’t really comment on him tho that one track was v. funky. (incidentally, one of the biggest Brazilian labels Trama (who I think put out Otto) is run by the son of Elis Regina)
All I can think of for now, will post later if brain comes back online.
― H (Heruy), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
anyone heard either and have comments? they sound pretty cool from the amg and amazon reviews.
― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 22:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 23:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 23:23 (twenty years ago) link
i recently picked up Rita Lee's first album "Build Up" and have been really digging it. it was produced by one of the guys from the Mutantes, so it is still a little wacky, but has more of a big band orchestration thing going on for the beginning of the album at least (near the end it gets a bit more rocking). but i swear, the more recent album of hers i bought (from the mid to late 90s) was the pits. her charming puns would be totally lost on me since i don't speak Portuguese.
any word on those two artists i just mentioned upthread?
― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 23:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 15 May 2003 07:02 (twenty years ago) link
the marquee and amabis discs are nice enough. nice being the word to watch.
― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 15 May 2003 08:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:11 (twenty years ago) link
anybody listening to the new Ceu album?
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm curious about it, but have not heard it yet. Not that I was wowed by her prior one, but it wasn't bad.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I only felt the need to download one of the tracks from the last album. I'm 11 tracks into this one (out of 13), and it's pretty good!
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Nobody here into Curumin?
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 10 July 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i am now!
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 10 July 2009 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:10 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark
^^^^Listening to this great track, "Bob", right now: I have it on a comp too, What's Happening in Pernambuco, which is great throughout -- but I don't think this was out in 2003, so what comp do you have it on?
I had no idea it was about Marley.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 10 July 2009 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I believe Curumin is still to make his best album, but I really like the other two
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 10 July 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Curumin was appearing in Central Park (summerstage) NYC with Juana Molina Wednesday night. Alas, I'm in DC and no gig here
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 July 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone listened to the new Céu album? Sounds to me like a dub version of a Brightblack Morning Light record with some Brazilian textures - obviously. I think sometimes her music lacks punch, but it's a good album overall.
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 24 July 2009 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
ed mottas that bad?
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
No, but I can't say he does outstanding work.
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 24 July 2009 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
You're so 2 weeks ago, Shin
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha, I really am.
this guy in NYT wrote nice things about her http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/arts/music/23ceu.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=c%C3%A9u&st=cse
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 24 July 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda,from Northeast Brazil is touring the US now with its rock meets frevo(Brazilian brass band) meets ska sound
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/arts/music/03atrium.html
,Apr 1 2010 8:00P LINCOLN CENTER - NEW YORK New York, New YorkApr 3 2010 10:00P SOB´S - NEW YORK NEW YORK, New YorkApr 5 2010 6:00P KENNEDY CENTER - WASHINGTON Washington, WashingtonApr 6 2010 8:00P RUMBA - CHICAGO Chicago, IllinoisApr 7 2010 8:00P PERCUSSION AND BRASS WORKSHOP IN NEW ORLEANS New Orleans, LouisianaApr 8 2010 8:00P workshop Maciel Salú, Tiné and SHOW in New Orleans New Orleans, LouisianaApr 9 2010 8:00P HEINEKEN TRANSATLANTIC Miami, FloridaApr 16 2010 9:00P AUDITÓRIO IBIRAPUERA - SP São Paulo, São PauloApr 17 2010 9:00P Teatro - OI FUTURO IPANEMA Rio de janeiro, Rio de JaneiroApr 18 2010 8:00P Teatro - OI FUTURO IPANEMA Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 April 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's a youtube of 'em. The Washington DC show Monday night is actually from 6 to 7 and is free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXMj4VQ3-_E
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 April 2010 04:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward to seeing them tonight.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 April 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://festivalbrazil.southbankcentre.co.uk/
Anybody see anything in this fest?
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 July 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to again mention that Maria Rita is great. I don't quite get the neglect. Maybe she's too simple? Anyway, she's certainly not in the tropicalia vein, and she's not doing crazy electronic/metal/atonal mashups, so that may contribute to a lack of interest.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 24 July 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/arts/music/06latin.html?ref=music
I confess that I have never previously heard of Ivete Sangalo, Brazil's biggest pop star, who just sold out a show at Madison Square Garden in NYC.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 September 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PMRrt8Wwbw&feature=fvsr
I'm trusting the word of Jon Pareles, from the NY Times, that she's the biggest current Brazilian pop star.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 September 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The encore part must have been great.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked that more than I expected to. Why haven't any of our local Brazilian experts mentioned this person before (or have they)?
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Sangalo is definitely "not my beach" as they say in Brazil. Her tinny rhythms and shrill voice used to get right on my nerves when I was over there.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 09:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I did an ILX search of posts with "Sangalo" and the only mentions that came up were when someone posted a list of Latin Grammy nominees (they have a Brazilian category).
I Like Margareth Menezes who appeared onstage for the encore part.Below is how Pareles described it in the NY Times:
She brought her whole staff onstage along with Margareth Menezes and Netinho, fellow Bahian singers. With her band somehow picking up cues amid the crowd, she vaulted through a half-dozen carnival songs, full of references to the streets and neighborhoods of Bahia’s capital, Salvador, with the whole arena singing along. Even in New York she was playing to a home crowd.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Why haven't any of our local Brazilian experts mentioned this person before (or have they)?
because she's crap. I really don't see anything interesting in her, musically speaking
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I only listened to two songs. I don't hear how her voice is shrill, it sounds fine to me. I somehow didn't really feel drawn in to the songs rhythmically, but couldn't put my finger on why. She seems fine to me, but nothing to get excited about, although now that I know there is local hate for her I want to hear more to see if I actually like her. I don't think she's more boring than Céu.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
now that I know there is local hate for her I want to hear more to see if I actually like her
good luck
I don't think she's more boring than Céu
Céu is not boring. She's got a fantastic 2nd album. And I think it's hard to compare her to Ivete since they're very different from each other apart from the fact both are Brazilians
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Thursday, 9 September 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Tulipa Ruiz - Do Amor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCz3Qrl2n8g
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Luisa Maita is touring the US. She's got a bossa-pop vocal style
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Both are from a new wave of female singers from São Paulo which also includes Céu
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 29 October 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
That Tulipa Ruiz song is nice. I like her voice and the minimal accompaniement. Thanks
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 October 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Luisa Maita did a nice show in DC the other night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Wfrtzkolc&feature=youtu.be&a
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 November 2010 06:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody else but me here see her on her US tour? She was impressive
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
New record from one of my favorite contemporary Brazilian artists: Romulo Fróes. Free and legal download: http://www.4shared.com/file/_jKJVKTc/Um_Labirinto_Em_Cada_Pe.html
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Kn_32Ddio
that's awesome. has a classic ECM vibe
― jaxon, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, thank you, this is great! Track with Arnaldo Antunes reminded me to seek out some of his earlier stuff too. Any other suggestions?
― Deverly (Bangelo), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
Cool...title means "A labyrinth in each foot"
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 July 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
Track with Arnaldo Antunes reminded me to seek out some of his earlier stuff too.
Froes' ou Antunes's?
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Thursday, 14 July 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
*or... of course
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Thursday, 14 July 2011 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't switch properly to English yet
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Thursday, 14 July 2011 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
Do you have suggestions for earlier material from either?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 July 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, meant Antunes. But yes ^^^ would love both.
― Deverly (Bangelo), Thursday, 14 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Jaxon, dumb question from me--what classic ECM stuff has a samba flavor like this?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
hmm. it wasn't nec the samba flavor that struck me as ecm. it was a bit of the production and iciness. some of the sax in the background plays melodies i associate w/the label.
as far as brazilian stuff, i don't know TONS of his material, but check out Nana Vasconcelos. i know he has some records on the label. the stuff of his i do know is CoDoNa with don cherry and Collin Walcott. pretty amazing and kinda just mashes all sorts of different cultures music together.
― jaxon, Friday, 15 July 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
something like this i guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKijsVbOxlU
― jaxon, Friday, 15 July 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
Romulo Fróes' previous album 'No Chão Sem o Chão' is great. Way more interesting than 'Um Labirinto em Cada Pé'. And it was also available for free download (it's kind of sad; he knows hardly anyone would buy his record. but I bought this one).
Arnaldo Antunes is much more popular than Fróes. He was part of a very succesful rock band in the 80s (Titãs) and he approached a more Brazilian sound when he went solo. Excerpts of all of his solo work are available in his official site: http://www.arnaldoantunes.com.br/sec_discografia_list.php
I love this song (although I prefer the studio version).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie7KJrgyiUk
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, will have to check out Froes prior one .
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
Enjoying 'No Chão Sem o Chão' thus far but not sure what I think of the guitar theatrics quite yet... never less than interesting at the least, though, many thanks
― Deverly (Bangelo), Monday, 18 July 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/arts/music/marcello-d2-brings-eclectic-tastes-to-central-park.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28
Its the Brazil summerfest week in NYC with eclectic rapper Marcelo D2, the Brazilian rock singer Pitty, DJ Nuts and Percussivo Mundo. I do not know these folks I must confess
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 July 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
My favorite is Nação Zumbi, who as far as I know hasn't released anything since I wrote about 'em in 2008.
Nação Zumbi: Brainy Crabs & Cannibals http://www.fastnbulbous.com/nacaozumbi.htm
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 23 July 2011 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
You should try 'Fome de Tudo'. It's absolutely brilliant.
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 24 July 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
Luisa Maita is touring the US again
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 July 2011 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
They're looking for more dates as well. The publicist wants me to help find them DC and Baltimore shows
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 July 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJg914QTsOk
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, is Romulo Froes' cd one of the best of 2011...Need to listen to it more
From an interivew with him (google translated from Portuguese)
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%25C3%25B4mulo_Fr%25C3%25B3es&ei=_EjHTrK1F8nF0AHmoInzDw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEkQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dromulo%2Bfroes%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1C1CHFX_enUS367US368%26prmd%3Dimvnslo
The generation that grew up and graduated in the last decade have you, Rodrigo Campos, Tata Airplane, Nina Becker, Domenico, Tulip. But it also has Rita Maria, Maria Gadu, Vanessa da Mata and others who direct dialogue with the industry, with "success." To some extent, does not condone the latter, so to speak, "aesthetic" ("philosophy" might fit, too) generation? Of course, even in the industry, artists are linked to their time with issues similar to ours. But they still have to deal with the machine's success and the problems arising from such relationship, very different from an independent artist - you see, said different, neither better nor worse. What I am sure that there is more room for invention in the industry for the construction of a work that you think the history of Brazilian music and its evolution. I think the last move in this direction, an industry support of a renewal of the work of Brazilian music, was the manguebeat. Since there will be more than 15 years.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 November 2011 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
x-post- very interesting, I like it(though not completely crazy about the guitar sound)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 November 2011 06:26 (twelve years ago) link
Now I still have to listen to that older Romulo Froes album
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 November 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
Many artists from São Paulo seem to be inspired by afrobeat sounds these days. And this is one of the finest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDhALcAPsOQ
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 22 December 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/arts/music/marching-to-an-african-beat.html?ref=music
modern but traditional Salvador carnival parade blocas
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 February 2013 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
Some new Brazilian artists - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGTZ5CBBLso
― tarping, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
Zuzuka Poderosa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2gyeUWFDv8
― tarping, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
A compilation with some new electronic producers - http://www.spin.com/articles/hy-brazil-vol-1-fresh-electronic-music-from-brazil-compilation-download
― tarping, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
You can hear the hole Gang Do Eletro CD here - https://www.facebook.com/gangdoeletro/app_208195102528120
― tarping, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
You can hear the hole Gang Do Eletro CD here - https://soundcloud.com/deckdisc/sets/gang-do-eletro
― tarping, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
thanks
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Hey Tarping do you work for Spin or the folks putting that stuff out?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
No, but i know the Chico, who compiled the compilation.
― tarping, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/maria-luiza-jobim/two-moons
― tarping, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
40% Foda/Maneirissimo is a new Techno/House label from Rio. This is their first tracks - http://40porcentofodabarramaneirissimo.bandcamp.com/album/40-foda-maneirissimo-001
― tarping, Saturday, 27 April 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
Another one from Opala - https://soundcloud.com/maria-luiza-jobim/come-home
― tarping, Saturday, 27 April 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Tom Jobim's daughter
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 April 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
I need to find time to listen to these folks
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Still do
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jxGPhxDPTk&feature=youtu.be
― tarping, Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
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― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 June 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/870885596/a-tale-of-two-nations-featuring-maracatu-estrela-b
The chance to present Estrela Brilhante in the United States
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 June 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/23/193915387/dj-betto-arcos-spins-the-latest-from-brazil
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 June 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCpIpvCrzUw
― tarping, Thursday, 8 August 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for posting
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 August 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
Luisa Maita is gonna tour the US again. No new album out as far as I can tell (although 1 new song)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2014/03/28/brazils-luisa-maita-on-samba-sao-paulo-and-speedy-beats/
interview
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 March 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
Luisa Maita and her great band live nicely blended old-school and new school sounds. Looking forward to her next album
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Her band had a funky drummer with a kit and a laptop, plus guitarist & bassist who have heard postpunk and funk...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 April 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/maisumdiscos/mini-box-lunar-amarelasse-from
I like this. Reminds me a little of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. These new comps look good too -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rol%C3%AA-Sounds-Brazil-Novos-Brasil/dp/B00JK4JZJO
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brasil-Bam-Gilles-Peterson/dp/B00J9ZB12I/ref=pd_sim_m_h__1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0S57XJZCPV95HRNX64MT
― StillAdvance, Monday, 16 June 2014 09:07 (nine years ago) link
Lindsay has found many like-minded musicians in Brazil with which to further his style. When I ask him who he plays with and listens to there, he reels off a long list of bands and artists who inspire him. His current recommendations include Metá Metá, Siba, and the young improv group Chinese Cookie Poets. He also mentions a fascination with a Brazilian dance music called Funk Carioca, and its recent offshoot Rasteirinha.
http://pitchfork.com/features/the-out-door/9408-tk/2/
Arto Lindsay
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:35 (nine years ago) link
this is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=850VvOreUf4
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Monday, 25 August 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link
Retro but modern (I guess. I haven't heardthis yet. Read NY Times review, excerpt below)
There have been echoes of Tropicália in Brazilian pop ever since, and something new that bears its traces is “Tremor Essencial” (Sem Paredes), the third record by Celso Sim, a São Paulo singer-songwriter with a background in theater. (You can hear it at celsosim.com.br.) The record is fast-moving, highly literate, magpie-ish about style and mood, tender and circusy and processional, full of intimacy and electric guitars. It also feels as if it wants to tell a story:
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 August 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Finally listening to Celso Sim now (on Spotify). Some of it reminds me of Caetano Veloso. I like the quieter numbers better than the circus-like melodramatic ones.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 September 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
There's quite a bit of guitar on it. On some songs he repeats the noisy gestures or the circus-like songs so much it can get a tad annoying in an almost prog-rock like way, other times it fits better.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 September 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
http://latinjazznet.com/2014/08/31/news/sammy-figueroa-glaucia-nasser-release-talisman/
Female Brazilian singer with Latin percussionist...
She has that classic bossa nova/samba voice...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 04:11 (nine years ago) link
Jucara Marcal--post-punk sorta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18p5_PiPk8E
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
publicist is pitching me on Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer who I have never heard, who is scheduled to play a 1200 seat hall in DC. Read that she collaborated with Seu Jorge once.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
I still haven't checked her music out on Youtube or wherever yet
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
Her bio plays up her classic Brazilian critic type influences, but this album on Spotify has more arena pop melodrama than I generally like.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
Tried another album of hers, and it adds some programmed beats, but its still too polished and overdone in a not so enjoyable way. Yep, I know she has a big following in Brazil
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 September 2015 12:15 (eight years ago) link
She's doing a NYC gig and others too. But I'm not won over based on my brief listening to 2 albums
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 September 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
Gonna go visit Brazil on a holiday/vacation trip/adventure
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
Anyone else here been there, or live there now?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 January 2016 05:40 (eight years ago) link
I don't, but i understand this song is extremely popular there right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzOkza_u3Z8
― rob, Friday, 29 January 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
Romulo Froes 2015 album Por elas Sem elas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zadIoJoozS4&feature=youtu.be
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 05:42 (eight years ago) link
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/serafina/2016/03/1735274-ensaio-reune-emicida-tulipa-ruiz-e-jucara-marcal-em-palacete-de-sp.shtml
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 06:02 (eight years ago) link
That latest Jucara Marcal referenced above is weird. I prefer older samba singer but still at it--Elza Soares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I38EcMJX8A8
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 06:10 (eight years ago) link
group getting some attention for having two trans singers, and some attention for the songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv-C_rFHFOw
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 06:21 (eight years ago) link
More Ava Rocha (2014 is upthread) here's 2015 from her; I think prior ones were credited to she and a band but this one might be considered a solo effort, although there's a band. In the past Arto Lindsay guested on one song, and she/they covered Tim Maia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFZ2orZLuY
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 06:27 (eight years ago) link
Negro Leo (has collaborated with Ava Rocha)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQpihajJR6M
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 06:45 (eight years ago) link
Dream Team Do Passinho
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/streets-rio-nyc-brazilian-dance-team-n429991
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 06:56 (eight years ago) link
http://soundsandcolours.com/articles/brazil/funk-carioca-the-beat-goes-on-24382/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 06:57 (eight years ago) link
Same lead guitarist (Kiko Dinucci) features on Juçara Marçal's Encarnado and Elza Soares' A Mulher do Fim do Mundo. See also his work with Juçara Marçal in the group Metá Metá or his other project Passo Torto. Passo Torto's Thiago Fraça with vocalist Ná Ozzetti almost made my EOY ballot (I was the sole voter for Elza, my #8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXVTixYalws
― Lurkers of the world, unite! (Sanpaku), Sunday, 31 January 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
Interesting
Rob, youtube searches also turn up lots of the ‘funk putaria’ (literally ‘fornication/prostitution funk’) in addition to funk carioca
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
yeah I don't know a thing about "Baile de favela" or MC João, except that now that song gets in my head all the time.
― rob, Sunday, 31 January 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
cool, I guess...
No baile funk in this Brazil best album of 2015 list, but some funky stuff I think
http://beehy.pe/best-of-2015/brazil-3/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
May be seeing Romulo Froes perform in a few days
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 February 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
He has written for Elza Soares too
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 February 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
Just got back from an incredible trip to Brazil (Rio and Salvador, Bahia). Alas, a connecting flight got cancelled and then our luggage got misplaced on the way there, so We missed a free Romulo Froes gig. But we did hear that MC Joao cut "Baile de favela" everywhere (that Rob mentioned upthread). Mostly a remixed version (the light remix I think its called). Thousands were chanting the words to that in a Carnival bloco parade we attended at Copocabana beach. The song certainly got stuck in our heads.
We saw a late-night Maria Rita gig, a number of bands playing Carnival gigs on various streets, the 2nd night of the Sambadrome event with samba schools composed of 1,000 or so folks, plus the amazing Salvador Campo Grande Carnaval circuit with afro-blocos like Olodum and Ilie Aiye.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 February 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
I had such a great time there.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 February 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej6jdAnlIq4
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 February 2016 03:09 (eight years ago) link
That was the winning performance at the Rio Sambadrome-- Manguiera paying tribute to Maria Bethania with a cast of over 4,000 people.
Carnival circuit parade in Salvador is down the street and not in a special stadium. Here's Afro-bloco Ile Aiye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CVTTFlJzaQ
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 February 2016 03:14 (eight years ago) link
We also saw small more informal "blocos" in various streets of Rio and Salvador
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 February 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
Plus just hearing Brazilian sounds in shops and restaurants and in some taxis (that weren't playing American pop)was cool too
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
I need to catch up on years worth of Carlinhos Brown albums. I have not heard his 2010 Diminuto, a ballads project, but I did get Adobró, his funkier and more pop effort from that year. Plus I heard his songs for that animated movie Rio. He got an Oscar nomination for that, but didn't win.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link
Friend from Brazil made this playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/vanessa_tolotti/playlist/5q1BwAH8tb2hwiOAmhAJiu
Lots of baile funk which is not really my cup of tea, but it's interesting if you want to know what they listen to over there.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
From that playlist here's a famous one, Anitta. I kinda love how at the beginning of the video there's a full blown commercial for tang. What's up with that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geFj_kMvasQ
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 19:27 (eight years ago) link
This is the big hit though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGov-KH7hkM
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
Sounds like the pirate version of Redfoo's red thang. Not sure if it's a sample or a steal.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
So I saw Maria Rita sing in the same 2,500 person hall in Rio that baile funk DJ Marlboro was performing in the next night.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 20:03 (eight years ago) link
Listening now to Ava Rocha, who mixes samba with rock. She made Ben Ratliff of the NY Times top 10 album list
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Others and I have also mentioned Ava upthread
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
Still lots of stuff for me to get hip to, or catch up on from both old and young Brasileros
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 February 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
http://qz.com/637282/protestors-in-brazil-plan-on-bringing-down-their-unpopular-president-with-a-choreographed-song-and-dance/
Article includes a link to a video with the song and guide to the dance steps
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 March 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
It's opposing the Brazilian Workers Party, the current Brazilian president and the last one, all of whom the protesters assert is corrupt. Some on the left may think this is painting with too broad a brush
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 March 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
I'm thinking so myself but I don't speak Portuguesee or really know the issues.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 March 2016 13:46 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/arts/music/review-layers-in-tropix-from-ceu.html?ref=arts
New album from Ceu from Sao Paulo
There’s a group of broad-minded musicians at the heart of “Tropix,” and two of them were Céu’s partners in producing the album. Hervé Salters, a French keyboardist who also works under the moniker General Elektriks, is one. Pupillo, who plays drums in the superdynamic Brazilian band Nação Zumbi, is the other. Their contribution feels intuitive and deep-simmered: Even when a track flaunts its electronic timbres, as on “Rapsódia Brasilis,” there’s a tendril of folkloric imprecision. And the inverse holds true, so that a traditionally samba-esque confection, “Varanda Suspensa,” receives an underlay of contemporary rhythm programming
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
the political atmosphere in Brazil now--
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/18/brazil-is-engulfed-by-ruling-class-corruption-and-a-dangerous-subversion-of-democracy/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
Listened to some of the new Ceu album this morning. I liked what I heard---artsy bossa nova pop, though I can some rolling their eyes at that.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 March 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
Love the new Céu album
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Monday, 28 March 2016 13:42 (eight years ago) link
Just got back from an incredible trip to Brazil
Nice.
The Céu album sounds pretty good so far.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 28 March 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
I like that easy-going Teresa Cristina album Ben Ratliff reviewed in the NY Times back in January.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazilian-politics-takes-a-satanic-turn-and-temer-is-in-hot-water/2016/05/22/723f6268-201c-11e6-b944-52f7b1793dae_story.html
On Friday singer Caetano Veloso performed a free show for thousands outside the landmark Ministry of Culture building in Rio that is occupied by protesters. The crowd turned one of his classics into a sing-along of “I hate Michel Temer.” Earlier, another crowd there sang “Temer out” to a melody from Carl Orff’s opera, “Carmina Burana” during an orchestral concert.
Other “Temer out” chants were also heard at free concerts by major Brazilian artists such as Ney Matogrosso in Sao Paulo on Saturday night, and “Temer Never” flashed on a screen during Sunday’s performance by rapper Criolo.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 May 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
Oh no, forgot Ceu is in DC tomorrow night and have other plans I can't get out of.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/06/15/for-brazilian-singersongwriter-ceu-the-skys-the-limit/
a band called Fellini namedropped by Ceu
her rousing interpretation of “Chico Buarque Song,” a song by the cult post-punk São Paulo band Fellini that honors Buarque, a legendary songwriter, musician and man of letters. Describing her teenage love of the Velvet Underground and Joy Division, she decided to bring some of that post-punk aesthetic into Tropix via Fellini.
“When I heard [Fellini] I fell in love with their sound,” she says. “It was so raw and interesting. It talks about what I was trying to do with Tropix: a very dark way of being in Brazil, which is so colorful. I liked the whole album, and I choose this song because I like the melody and it’s so wonderfully strange to have Chico Buarque, such an important and brilliant composer, in this post-punk song.”
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
From the Olympic opening ceremony with Anitta, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euyRPBqZNYM
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 August 2016 04:27 (seven years ago) link
Video is gone. Anyone have a complete list of the musicians who performed? I missed a chunk of it, heard Gil was in the hospital for kidney issues recently, wasn't sure he was going to be there.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 6 August 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
Wish I had noticed when it was up.
― The Rest Is A Cellarful of Noise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 August 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_K9j3fb8Es
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 6 August 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
By the way, NYT did a good job in this playlist http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/arts/music/brazilian-music-playlist.html
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 6 August 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I was hesitant to read at first but it turned out to be decent, they covered a lot of ground.
― The Rest Is A Cellarful of Noise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 August 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
Glad they mentioned Chico Science & Nacão Zumbi. Would have also been nice to see Lenine and Moreno+2 in there.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 6 August 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
NY Times music crits Ratliff and Pareles have both been to Brazil multiple times and been writing about it for awhile, so its not too surprising that its a good job. Ratliff is now leaving the NY Times to teach at NYU, so I wonder if Pareles will be able to pick up from him on the Brazilian music coverage. Ratliff covered more obscure artists than Pareles.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 August 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
More discussion and stuff for opening ceremony here:
Caetano Veloso S and D
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 August 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
Ava Rocha Tour USA is coming!
August 5th – Joe’s Pub (New York) 9:30 pm - $ 15425 Lafayette St, New York, NYhttp://www.songkick.com/artists/8814094-ava- rocha
August 6th – Nublu (New York) - 11 pm - $10Brasil Summerfest’s Closing Party62 Avenue C, New York, NY (East Village)http://www.nublu.net/
August 9th – Trans-Pecos Brooklyn (New York) 915 Wycoff Av, Ridgewood, Queens, NY8:00 pm - concert Marcos Campello+ Steve Dalachinsky8:30 pm - Nigth - film by Paula Gaitán10:00 pm - concert Ava Rocha
August 12th – Tropicalia (Washington) - 11 pm2001 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009http://www.tropicaliadc.com/
August 13th – Nublu (New York) - 10 pm - special guest Gui Amabis151, Avenue C, between 9/10th Streets , East Villagehttp://www.nublu.net/
***
Ava Rocha launches her first tour in the United States
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 August 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link
Saw a pic of Caetano around the Olympics on Instagram holding a sign in Portuguese saying that their interim President must go
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 August 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
Was out of town for weekend and sadly missed Ava Rocha's only non-NYC gig on her short debut US tour of a week
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 August 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
Carnival portion of Olympics closing ceremony is great
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
DJs played lively music and some spectators got out of out their seats to dance — and do the “wave.”
The crowd also got to see performers shake it to frevo, a frenetic dance that, if it’s even possible, makes samba seem like a staid ballroom affair. Holding a small umbrella, the dancers jumped up and down, seeming to march and incorporate acrobatics at the same time.
They shook it to “Vassourinhas,” which means “small brooms,” a popular song that was also the name of a famous club in the northeastern city of Recife.
During Sunday’s closing ceremony, singer Mariene de Castro was showered water that resembled rain, which put out the Olympic cauldron’s flames.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/the-latest-athletes-crowd-dance-to-djs-at-closing-ceremony/2016/08/21/88a06f10-67fd-11e6-91cb-ecb5418830e9_story.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
Elza Soares who was mentioned upthread has a Pitchfork best album. Just noticed Sherburne's end of July review
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22173-a-mulher-do-fim-do-mundo-the-woman-at-the-end-of-the-world/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 August 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
That's the same album curmudgeon and I were praising in 2015.
11 hours ago, Kiko Dinucci, the guitarist on the Soares, released a third album with Metá Metá (which includes Jucara Marcal): MM3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXUOGdNmSk
― Shinzō Abe as Super Mario (Sanpaku), Friday, 26 August 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
Oops, just noticed your byline, curmudgeon.
Anyway, the full Metá Metá album on spotify
― Shinzō Abe as Super Mario (Sanpaku), Friday, 26 August 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
https://gomagringa.bandcamp.com/
Just saw Andy Beta's September Pitchfork review of a Goma Gringa label compilation called "desconstrucao" (as opposed to the Portuguese singer who moved to Sao Paulo Eugenia Melo E Castro album of the same name)
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22238-desconstrucao/
the musicians clustered around São Paulo’s current “samba sujo” (dirty samba) scene relish their hometown’s pallor. For those struck by the sound of Elza Soares’ A Mulher do Fim do Mundo from a few months ago, this twelve-track comp culled from the early days of the Goma Gringa Discos label is the next logical step in exploring modern Brazilian music. It features a similar cast of players and musicians from Soares’ album, including saxophonist/arranger Thiago França and Rodrigo Campos.
...Most acts rotate through a stable of players, be they Juçara Marçal, Kiko Dinucci, Marcelo Cabral, Romulo Fróes, Sérgio Machado, Campos, or França, which the press release states “are not a movement, [but] togetherness in motion, always linked from one project to the next.” Almost any selection here contains strands of native samba, post-punk’s rumble, Afrobeat’s driving rhythm, blats of avant-jazz that seem to dilate space, as well as flashbacks to ’60s Tropicália, itself a mutation of Brazilian pop music interacting with outside influences.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 03:36 (seven years ago) link
Desconstrução gathers tracks from several albums already considered landmarks in Brazilian music of the 21st century: Juçara Marçal’s Encarnado (2014), the trio Metá Metá’s Metá Metá (2011) and MetaL MetaL (2012), Rodrigo Campos’s Bahia Fantástica (2012) and Conversas com Toshiro (2015), Thiago França’s Malagueta, Perus e Bacanaço (2013) and Space Charanga R.A.N. (2015), and Vicente Barreto’s Cambaco (2015).creditsreleased September 19, 2016
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
I like the more melodic and more rocking tracks over the avante-jazzy ones, on the comp
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 October 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if Rosa Passos is going to appear anywhere else in the US, in addition to her December dates in NYC? My quick google search didn't show any others
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 November 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
Saw Seu Jorge on tour, solo with acoustic guitar, doing his David Bowie set. Nice show
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 November 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
http://superselected.com/listen-to-this-the-eclectic-sounds-of-brazilian-artist-mahmundi/
Saw a tweeted reference to this Brazilian electro-soul something or other artist
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 November 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
Mahmundi is a great new artist from Rio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_w-yjlbFgU
― tarping, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link
Maybe I have to giver her another listen. Her electro-soul seemed nice enough, but didn't wow me on my first listen.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Seems not to be on Spotify but I've found a few tracks from xpost v/a - Desconstrução (label: Goma Gringa). re the Andy Beta review linked above. So far, one most to my personal taste is Metá Metá's succinctly eventful (rockin') "Rainha Das Cabecas":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9VSyF5HcyI
Their "Obatalá" is an extended breather, maybe most effective in context, but good anyway (if not holding my usually vice-like attention all the way):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9VSyF5HcyI
Those intrigued, as I was, by Beta's mention of Mingus's Cumbia and Jazz Fusion should def check this one by Thiago Franca:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHvjo7ePDZc
The first one I heard (very nice male balladeer in charged setting, but overall not as adventurous as hoped): Rodrigo Campos feat. Criolo - "Ribeirão" (growing on me, now that I know to expect these others!):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBpky2XFlOs
Think I might order the album...
― dow, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
After this recommendation about a year ago I bought the Rodrigo Campos lp: Brazilian Music
I really like it, beautiful package also.
― Tim, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
Yikes, meant to post this, sorry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0U4Kx0hhtE
― dow, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
the comp is here:
https://gomagringa.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-descontru-o
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
Tarping, sorry i forgot about your initial 2013 mention of Mahmundi. Just looking bck on this thread I see that in 2011 I poste an interview excerpt with Romulo Froes where he mentioned Rodrigo Campos.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
Starting following some of these folks on Instagram and came across a mention of singer Juliana Perdigao. She has an album on Spotify. Its artsy samba that shifts between pretty and weird.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
Thanks so much for linking the whole comp, curm. The two I had first-listen doubts about do indeed totally work in context---just now tweeted: V/A - DESCONTRUÇÃO: post-everything here & now Brazil, cohesive recombinant momentum*: hairline midnight rainbows just the beginning again*So, choosing this many tracks by several of the artists (4 by Meta Meta, for inst)? Justified, to put it mildly.
― dow, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 04:07 (seven years ago) link
about a year ago I bought the Rodrigo Campos lp: Brazilian Music
I really like it, beautiful package also Thanks, will check that out too! He's amazing on here.
― dow, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 04:08 (seven years ago) link
Was just listening to a Campos album on Youtube. Nice stuff.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
César Lacerda & Romulo Fróes – O Meu Nome é Qualquer Um (google translate says that means in English): My Name is Anyone
Nice, quiet & occasionally noisy folky yet bossa-samba inflected duo effort. I have liked prior Froes albums. Not familiar with Lacerda, who is a td more indie-folkie and younger than the 40-something Froes.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:53 (seven years ago) link
carlinhos Brown new album this year-- artefireaccua, has more ballads than I rember from him on the past
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 December 2016 05:06 (seven years ago) link
remember
Album didn't wow me on first listen, but has some good tracks
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 December 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
Elza Soares is getting love on some US and UK album of the year lists.
Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, Dois Amigos: Um Século de Música (Ao Vivo) (Nonesuch) is on the afropop.org stocking stuffers list.
this release is growing on me:
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 December 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
I mentioned this elsewhere:
Listened again to Brazilian Carlinhos Brown's latest (on Spotify)-- it's uneven. Some songs start strongly with Carnival like drumming and then change gears; others use guest vocalists including kids; there are ballads that work and some that incorporate too much melodramatic American pop-rock movie flavor
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 December 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
any opinions on fabiano do nascimento's "tempo dos mestres"?
― the late great, Monday, 6 March 2017 03:48 (seven years ago) link
Listening to it for the first time now! Plus I looked at a bio. He's a Los Angeles based Brazilian guitarist who is more jazzy than I like, but that's just my preference. Not bad. Only a few songs in...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 March 2017 03:05 (seven years ago) link
Curious about Danilo Brito, Brazilian choro bandleader who is doing some North American dates
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 March 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
Listened to him myself. He plays mandolin and 4 string guitar. His version of choro has he and 3 other stringed instrument players plus a percussionist. It sounds a bit like ragtime. Choro is one of the oldest Brazilian styles and is still around. It melds European classical with waltzes and a bit of African rhythm.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 March 2017 19:39 (seven years ago) link
Elza Soares is getting a remix album, plus will be doing gigs in Europe and 2 NYC shows (a RedBull Academy one in May; a Summerstage one in August) [Pitchfork had a little press release type item on this.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 May 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
What's a couple years to Elza. There's a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SWIwW9mg8s
― No one is THAT ackbar (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 05:00 (six years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
Psychelelic soul of sorts, from Sao Paulo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXM3uwklF8
― it's just locker room treason (Sanpaku), Saturday, 10 June 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
Here's a list of someone's favourite Brazilian albums of the year so far: http://miojoindie.com.br/os-25-melhores-discos-de-2017-ate-agora/
I've dipped in to a couple and it's been mostly offbeat psych-rock so far.
― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 16 June 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link
Really enjoying the Criolo album at the moment. On first hearing it's like an up-to-date Cartola.
― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 16 June 2017 08:49 (six years ago) link
Enjoying Fabiano do Nascimento's Tempo Dos Mestres so far (just 1.756 tracks in).
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 2 October 2017 03:49 (six years ago) link
I want to listen to this but I also want to watch a Pavlina Tcherneva video on Job Guarantee programs. Soon I will want to go to bed; then wake up, and not want to go to work.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 2 October 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
that album sounds good - but what do you mean 1756 tracks? :O
― niels, Monday, 2 October 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
Just being silly about the portion of the album I had heard (not quite two whole songs). There was a decimal.
Probably all to airy for me right now. There was a cover of a familiar song but I can't remember what it was (let alone the title). Possibly something by Baden Powell.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 2 October 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
Ha I didn't look up anything about the Fabiano do Nascimento album, didn't even realise that my favourite song ("O Tempo") is uh inspired by one of my favourite Gilberto Gil songs ("Marginalia II"). Some background here for the non-clued-in: http://www.afropop.org/34735/tempo-dos-mestres/
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Thursday, 5 October 2017 09:17 (six years ago) link
listened to that Nascimento record a few times now, it's gorgeous
any other of his I should check out?
― niels, Monday, 16 October 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
Guess I should listen again. Listened once and wasn't wowed
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
Liked some of it but not all on another listen.
Now listening to avante/artsy and Tropicalia inspired Negro Leo on his 2017 bandcmp release Action Lekking. He released several efforts in 2017. Chicago Reader writer Peter Margasak put Action in his top 40 for the year.
https://negroleo.bandcamp.com/album/action-lekking
Also saw on Instagram video of Cortejo Afro, a nice Salvador percussion bloco.
Cortejo Afro was formed and made its Carnival debut on July 2, 1998 in the streets of Pirajá, a community in Salvador. The Bloco is rooted in the spiritual guidance and principles of an established Candomblé house in Salvador, Ilê Axé Oyá, and Cortejo Afro’s artistic design and Afrocentric creative expression was founded by artist Alberto Pitta. Concerned about the predominance of Axé music, Cortejo Afro was formed in an attempt to reestablish the African identity of Carnival. http://www.batalawashington.com/founding-of-cortejo-afro/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
Ava Rocha is doing 5 gigs in the US--Starting in Philadelphia on the 12th and then doing 3 NYC area gigs and a DC one (a free one at the Kennedy center that will be video=streamed live on the 17th, 6 to 7 pm est)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/travel/brazil-all-female-drums-bahia-banda-dida.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Related
Banda Dida...It's Carnival time in Brazil
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 February 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link
The last 3 Tom Ze albums are ace. I'm partial to 2014's A Dog in the Milky Way out of the three, but 2012's Tropicalia Trash Logic and 2016's Cançoes Eróticas De Ninar (his most straightforward set of pop tunes in a long time) are great. Can't think of another pop artist in his 80s who's doing such vital work.
― eddhurt, Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:43 (six years ago) link
Didn't realize he was that old. His "pop" used to be pretty out there, but I haven't listened in a long time.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:15 (six years ago) link
I'm liking this 2017 Criolo album Espiral de Ilusão
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e193_zPMWy4
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:19 (six years ago) link
anyone recommend brazilian music documentaries?
― niels, Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:37 (six years ago) link
but which kind of Brazilian music?
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 11 February 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
anything really, but I guess samba would be the big one, tropicalia would probably be awesome
― niels, Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
kind of hard to find one with english subtitles. anyway: https://acasadevidro.com/2016/01/26/70-documentarios-completos-sobre-musica-brasileira-sua-historia-a-casa-de-vidro-com/
have you seen this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaFakolFvNo
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
x-post The Guardian on that 2017 Criolo album:
Criolo’s latest album will startle many of his fans. The popular Brazilian rapper and singer is best known for mixing hip-hop with anything from reggae and funk to samba, but on this release, he switches exclusively to samba, with a relaxed set dominated by his often crooned, no-nonsense vocals, with backing provided not by keyboards and programming but by the tiny, guitar-like cavaquinho (played by a member of Pagode da 27, a neighbourhood samba project in São Paulo), along with seven-stringed guitar, percussion and brass. Many of his new songs sound like tuneful old classics, but there is an angry, contemporary edge to the lyrics (although sadly no English translations are provided
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/30/criolo-espiral-de-ilusao-review-seamless-samba-with-conscious-lyrics
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
I still haven't checked on this new Criolo album but I like him
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
xp thanks, that should keep me busy for a while!
BBC doc was cool too, wish it was 10 hours long (and questioning the standard narrative a bit more)
― niels, Monday, 12 February 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
2 years ago the wife and I made our first visit to Brazil and loved Carnival in both Bahia/Salvador and Rio. Seeing FB and Instagram postings the last few days has me missing it.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xhQBPzfONlQJ:www.okayafrica.com/how-ile-aiye-changed-salvadors-carnival-forever-and-uplifted-black-people-in-brazil/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Ile Aiye are one of the most important blocos in Carnival in Bahia
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
http://afropop.org/articles/carnaval-in-recife-brazil-photo-essay
Another part of Brazil celebrates Carnival a bit differently
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 February 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
Carlinhos Brown's Instagram account is a lot of fun. Lots of Bahia carnival footage recently. I still need to check out his 2017 album that Xchuckxx Eddy put in his Village Voice Pazz & Jop top 10
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
Carlinhos Brown's Semelhantes album from 2017 does not appear to be listed in his English language Wiki bio or his Allmusic.com discography
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhptBT_-VI
I feel like this is not the type of music I'm supposed to post itt but maybe someone can point me towards a rolling thread where it fits? In case you find it crass I can say it works perfectly in a club, you're drunk, dancing, and it's very very loud
― niels, Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
That’s fine here...It’s modern Brazilian music. Whether Anitta feels she is being exploited is another question.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 February 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
cool, glad to hear that
has there been negative stories surrounding the song? seems like a pretty big hit
― niels, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
aaw fucks sake I see now it's a Terry Richardson video - why the fuck that guy keeps getting work is beyond me
― niels, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
Elza Soares is back. Deus é Mulher released May 17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw9ke8zt7XA
― Chaos reigns... in my pants (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
Given the delay for UK/US release for A Mulher do Fim do Mundo, the anglophone press will probably praise it in 2020...
― Chaos reigns... in my pants (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
Ha. It is on US Spotify now, not sure about other formats.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/more-dead-than-alive-rios-closure-of-legendary-club-reflects-cultural-crisis#img-2
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
sad story
― niels, Friday, 13 July 2018 08:50 (five years ago) link
did he really say "caramba" though
― niels, Friday, 13 July 2018 08:52 (five years ago) link
Did he really toss the Lapa neighborhood, favelas, and Sugarloaf Mountain all together in one paragraph
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/07/10/brazilian-experimental-list/
mentions albums such as:
Various ArtistsReal Rio: rock, pop, noise and electronic music from Rio de Janeiro
Chinese Cookie Poets-
Opus Dei-
Juçara Marçal & Cadu Tenório
and more
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 July 2018 04:02 (five years ago) link
I need to catch up on both the Bandcamp stuff above (though it might be too experimental for my tastes) and this afropop podcast below
http://afropop.org/audio-programs/brazil-at-a-crossroads
Brazil has seen its ups and downs since it became an independent empire in 1822: strongman leaders, military rule, populist democracy and more. In 2018, a politically weary nation faces a stark electoral choice between radically different futures. But whatever was happening in the halls of power, Brazil has always produced powerful, beautiful and ecstatic music, and always known how to party. On Afropop’s 2018 return trip to Brazil, We take a deep dive into the music and evolution of Carnaval in Salvador, Bahia, and dig into new developments in MPB, roots and rock from Pernambuco, Baile funk, new sounds from Amazonia and more from one of the most prolific musical nations on earth.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 August 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Stern's music website says folks who buy stuff from them still like Criolo 's ESPIRAL DE ILUSAO from December 2017
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
Still behind in listening to the above. I guess you all are also.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 12:30 (five years ago) link
Still behind on listening to that Bandcamp experimental stuff and the Afropop podcast
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 August 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
Still so far behind in listening to 2018 Brazilian music. Am now listening to Romulo Froes- O Disco das Horas
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
From 2014, Arrigo Barnabe, Luiz Tatit, & Livia Nestrovski - De Nada Mais a Algo Além. The whole disk is fantastic, but here are a couple faves:
Dora Avantehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxaRPeCdxfs
Ano Bomhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRB2FFrj9GM
― screator, Thursday, 3 January 2019 06:50 (five years ago) link
Google translate tells me the following about the above collaboration of age 60 something experimental musicians Barnabe and Tatit with younger vocalist Nestrovski--
After a chance meeting in 2011, at an event to honor Assis Valente and Nelson Cavaquinho, the contemporaries Arrigo Barnabé and Luiz Tatit decided to work together. To give voice to the compositions, the pair chose Lívia Nestrovski
I am not seeing anything more recent by Barnabe and Tatit via a quick internet search, but I see that Nestrovski has done work with Brazilian jazz guitarist Fred Ferreira
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 January 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2017/L/Livia-Nestrovski--Fred-Ferreira/
Via this link I then decided to also investigate Tim Bernardes (whom I can't find any prior ilxor mentions of). According to the link
Leader of the highly praised Brazilian band O Terno, the singer/songwriter, producer and multi-instrumantist Tim Bernardes released his debout solo album in 2017. Claimed by Brazilian icons such as Arnaldo Baptista (Os Mutantes), O Terno have played to large audiences including Primavera Sound (in Spain) and Lollapalooza BR. Tim wrote songs and recorded with brazilian tropicalist legend Tom Zé and worked with artists as Adriano Cintra (CSS), Gorky (Bonde do Rolê) and David Byrne. In his solo album he is responsible for playing, producing and writing the orchestral arrangements. His work has been reviewed by Brazilian newspaper giant O Globo describing "Tim, at 25, already seems to proves himself as the greatest songwriter of his generation”.
Not sure if he's the greatest blah blah blah, but his top tracks on Spotify are tunefully pleasant enough in a retro acoustic Brazilian pop way.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 January 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
https://talitaavelino.bandcamp.com/album/azul-bahia
Talita Avelino's latest album is on Bandcamp and not Spotify). She's got a sweet bossa voice on her prior 2017 effort. Haven't listened to her 2018 one yet.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 January 2019 00:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.allmusic.com/album/ofert%C3%B3rio-ao-vivo-mw0003181253
The Caetano Veloso 2018 live album Ofertório (Ao Vivo) with his sons Moreno, Zeca, and Tom is pretty nice. They do various songs from his whole career.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 January 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link
http://505indie.com.br/acervo/os-50-melhores-albuns-brasileiros-de-2018/
Elza Soares at 10; Carne Doce's Tonus at #1 (who?); 34. Heavy Baile – Carne de Pescoço is funk carioca; 38 is Ava Rocha
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 January 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
Carne Doce were ok on first listen. Postpunk sorta
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
Wow, there's a lot to check out in that list.
One I don't see there but which I have been enjoying is Airto Moreira's Aluê (it came out Dec. 2017). Most of it I gather is rerecordings of older material, but it was all new to me.
― screator, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link
Liking Sao Paulo indie-electro pop act Labaq
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
still like it, but no Pitchfork review so no attention outside of Brazil (despite recent short US tour)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link
this is a spectacularly great song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRnrScSCik
ffffffffresh!
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 11 October 2019 10:00 (four years ago) link
love it!
― ogmor, Friday, 11 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
Anitta has a track on the forthcoming Charlie's Angels sountrack.
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
...and here it is (released today):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSneYkvMrGs
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
X-post — I like reggaeton feel to the song Corrs posted
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
there's now a bad drake remix of that very song
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
you are Drake
― breastcrawl, Friday, 15 November 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
https://beehy.pe/romulo-froes-o-disco-das-horas-brazil/
I think this is Romulo Froes latest album. It’s from 2018, I still like it. Great melding of trad and avante
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 January 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.b9.com.br/119034/os-10-melhores-albuns-nacionais-de-2019/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 January 2020 06:04 (four years ago) link
Rapper Emacita on top, followed byy Black Alien, and Eza Soares
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 January 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
Elza
baden powell's "os afrosambas" springs to mind. loving this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLbWNMb8IPo
https://sessa.bandcamp.com/album/grandeza-2
― gaudio, Friday, 31 January 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
Quarantine sending me some unusual ear-worms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ffMcQWsO4
Only musical instrument is jaw-harp, everything else is voice & body percussion (stomp, clap)
I really love the Bahai-an/NorthEastern scale of the female chorus, sounds Mixolydian i think?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
anybody listening to the new Ceu album?― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, July 9, 2009 9:04 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, July 9, 2009 9:04 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
bump
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
She's a good not great singer but the production textures and moods she employs are consistently right up my alley
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
Carlinhos Brown has 2 new releases out
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 September 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
I am discovering that Mateus Aleluia, a member from Os Tincoãs, released an album in 2010 called Cinco Sentidos and that it's got to be one of most beautiful slow albums I know. Maybe I am especially the mood but I am absolutely hooked. He is 67 on the album and sings along his daughter on a few numbers. It's ravishing, spiritual.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 7 March 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the tip, Nabozo. This is just what I needed after a restless night last night.
I see he has some recent releases too.
― giraffe, Monday, 8 March 2021 09:06 (three years ago) link
slow albums<3
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 8 March 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
have been enjoying Gilbertos Samba (2014) by Gilberto Gil a lot lately
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 8 March 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/meet-the-women-bringing-brazilian-grime-and-drill-to-new-heights/
Brazil / Brasil grime and drill
There is the aforementioned N.I.N.A., a DJ-turned-rapper and forthright social critic who is unafraid to illustrate the realities of the racist, sexist industry she is forced to navigate. Behind the boards, São Paulo-based DJ Peroli has landed high-profile sets on online radio stations like Rinse FM and NTS. And behind the scenes, women like Yvie Oliveira, executive producer of the YouTube series Brasil Grime Show, are helping to shape the next generation of rappers and MCs; inspired by British platforms like Reprezent Radio,
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
Marina Sena has her first album out and it's a breezy pop-reggae affair infused with Brazilian rhythms and a style that reminds of Marisa Monte even if her voice is less soft.
I am five songs in and this immediately goes on my playlisthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKOOnchcbgMarina Sena - Voltei Pra Mim
― Nabozo, Friday, 27 August 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link
And she deserves to have more posted, especially from the last songs she wrote for the album. Fantastic voice. She is fast growing on me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvklZlkPNMMarina Sena - Me Toca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2oCXnPgTW0Marina Sena - Amiude
― Nabozo, Friday, 27 August 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
The whole set is wonderful (Cabelo !) and full of lyrical subtleties and variations while keeping an appearance of being upbeat and catchy. Her voice will be an acquired taste but I'm won over.
― Nabozo, Friday, 27 August 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
I struggled a little bit at first with the Juçara Marçal album but the first and last three songs (from when the synth enters on Lembranças followed by autotune !) are really fun and diverse. I saw her the other day do a short set with Kiko Dinucci, who is really this force to reckon with, my eyes were set on his guitar and it was physical. True virtuoso and genius. And I thought Juçara was 45 and she's rather 60.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqGZTrbjhrEJuçara Marçal - Lembranças que Guardei (feat. Fernando Catatau)
Reminds me of Sevdaliza
― Nabozo, Sunday, 28 November 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBDq_-D4jdYLinn da Quebrada - I Missil
from Trava línguas which I am getting into now and strongly suggest others also do soThis kind of Brazilian jazzy r&b pop is quite unheard of
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
I'm less a fan of the electronic bass stuff, but still a wonderful creative and vibrant record by a trans artist
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
There's a new Tulipa Ruiz, called Habilidades extraordinárias ! I'll just post the opener. She sounds just as good and fresh as she did 12 year ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBqy4z5xc1oTulipa Ruiz - Samaúma
― Nabozo, Saturday, 19 November 2022 09:12 (one year ago) link
I'm just reporting that the first six songs here are very good, if not quite as innovative as the jazzy arrangements were on Efemera.If there is a highlight in terms of songwriting, it is probably Kamikaze Total.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7JdNIBneoATulipa Ruiz - Kamikaze Total
― Nabozo, Sunday, 27 November 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
https://brazilbeatblog.wordpress.com/top-ten-lists/
This blog had Tulipa Ruiz in a top 10 list for 2015, and one of my faves Romulo Froes in a couple of other years
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 November 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
sessa - "estrela acesa" and tim bernardes - "mil coisas invisíveis" are two i really enjoyed this year. both could be described as retro and i saw today that both made the aquarium drunkard EOY list.
― budo jeru, Monday, 12 December 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
bernardes record kind of a downer singer-songwriter workout for fans of caetano's "transa" while the sessa record is more like mystic samba in the vein of powell / de moraes.
― budo jeru, Monday, 12 December 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
agree, two v good records
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 10:04 (one year ago) link
Listened to Bernardes last night. Good but retro and Caetano Velosa like
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
Veloso and maybe shouldn't have said "but"
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
Really enjoying the Tim Bernardes album and wish I'd heard it in time to nominate it for the EOY poll. I get that it's retro but it's a sound that should never die.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 13:06 (one year ago) link
Seem to recall his previous album was also very satisfying. And was he in some famous rock group?
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link
he's still part of the band (he also founded it), O Terno.they're kinda big in the independent scene, but by no means they're 'famous'
― fpsa, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/pabllo-vittar-baianasystem-brazilian-politics-1234704876/?curator=MediaREDEF
BaianaSystem’s music was in constant dialogue with the country’s zeitgeist. A year after Bolsonaro took office, the band released their sophomore album, O Futuro Não Demora (“The Future Won’t Take Long”). They weren’t strangers to sharing direct, uncompromising messages with their listeners — their first album was full of sharp, stabbing lyrics blended with Afro-Latin tones, a punk rock attitude, and traces of Bahia’s pagodão, a modern percussion-soaked strand of samba. Their second release was even more blunt: In the feverish modern mambo jam “Sulamericano,” French-Colombian artist Manu Chao joins in as Passapusso sings, “Counter-attack, I’m making plans to counter-attack.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
Djavan is an old-timer at this point and some of his songs are too busy or too jazz fusiony for me, but I love his ballads and liked some of his songs on his most recent album D. He's starting on his first North American tour in 13 years. Thinking I might go see his suburban DC area gig Friday night
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 April 2023 20:58 (eleven months ago) link
I'm enjoying the new album by Rogê - 'new' but leans heavily on Baden/Vinicius, Jorge Ben, Verocai etc. https://www.waxpoetics.com/article/roge-samba-rock-meets-tommy-brenneck-bespoke-soul/
― giraffe, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 14:34 (eleven months ago) link
great recommendation, thanks!
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 16:13 (eleven months ago) link
will check this out
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:25 (eleven months ago) link
ok, so this fucking rules
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:37 (eleven months ago) link
Fun comp, pretty wild nursery tales sometymes, varied x compatible enough, on Mr. Bongo's Bandcamp: https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0753925496_16.jpg
― dow, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:22 (eleven months ago) link
This week: A special Semipop Life guest post from @BrazilBeat1, so you can get your dirty samba recommendations wholesale without me playing middleman and asking "but how much does this sound like Tom Zé really":https://t.co/b1UfgjEW03 pic.twitter.com/fQU2K3TI1s— bradluen (@bradluen) May 14, 2023
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:32 (eleven months ago) link
Luedji Luna, r&b crooner from Salvador, Bahia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omjgry2dYbg
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 2 July 2023 20:53 (nine months ago) link
Enjoying the most recent Julia Mestre album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QoWXDh-0As
― giraffe, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 08:20 (six months ago) link
The album is called Arrepiada and it's lovely.
― giraffe, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 08:21 (six months ago) link
I'm only coming back to it now, but I still think Marina Sena is fascinating, even in an ocean of autotune. The album is Vicio Inerente.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RT1BKhL51IOlho no Gato
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 12:16 (six months ago) link
Tidal served me up that Rogê album and I'm loving it - those strings!
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 10:27 (five months ago) link
Roge is doing some US gigs shortly. A one hour free one in DC at Kennedy Center on November 30 at 6pm et that will also be streamed on Kennedy Center YouTube and Facebook ( and archived on YouTube) plus a Los Angeles gig December 5 says Spotify
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 November 2023 16:30 (five months ago) link
https://brazilbeatblog.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/2023-part-one/
Romulo Flores who is one of many acts mentioned in this blog , has 2 collaboration releases this year — Na Goela which combines traditional Brazilian with noisy guitar rock & is with Tiago Rosas; and Elefante which is more tuneful Brazilian and is recorded with Rodrigo Campos. The blogger just mentions the noisier one and compares it to a Wire album. I don’t exactly hear Wire on that one
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:58 (five months ago) link
Eh typo . Romulo Froes with an accent mark over the o in Froes
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 November 2023 22:00 (five months ago) link
The one time I went to Brazil we planned on seeing Romulo Froes perform, but our flights there got delayed and we missed the gig.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 19 November 2023 18:09 (four months ago) link
I still need to listen to more acts mentioned on that Brazilbeat blog
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 November 2023 23:43 (four months ago) link
Roge “Curyman” album made the Mojo list and was just nominated for ilx list ballot . Yay!
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 December 2023 22:13 (four months ago) link
It's in my top 10 for sure!
― budo jeru, Monday, 11 December 2023 22:38 (four months ago) link
thoroughly enjoyable record, my kinda revivalism
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 07:32 (four months ago) link
woop
― giraffe, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 08:17 (four months ago) link
Roge with a drummer doing a 1 hour free show at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPRPM8r_ZNE
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 16:57 (four months ago) link
I nominated it! That style of music is so rich and beautiful, it shouldn't need to be revived; and he's really adept at it.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 01:58 (four months ago) link
he didn't really 'revived' anything, folks. he's a regular guy doing regular MPB by any measure! it's good, but it's weird to see such laurels, idk...
― fpsa, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 02:19 (four months ago) link
otm
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 04:16 (four months ago) link
not much available in the anglosphere about mpb between the 80's and now tbf, and even some of the brazilian sources I've read don't stray outside that timeframe, boomer hegemony I guess
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 10:30 (four months ago) link
by revivalism I meant that the mpb sound on his album has a "retro" tinge to my ears, just listen to the strings
there's probably a good/boring explanation (apart from the quality of the material) for why this particular record is getting so much exposure
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 10:53 (four months ago) link
I've enjoyed the album but my immediate thought was how close it sounds to Clube da Esquina and how much it relies on arrangements when I rather expect a strong vocal personality and some kind of messing-up with the formula from modern MPB. So my uneducated guess is that it gets exposure from precisely not following the program.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 13:09 (four months ago) link
Roge's music definitely harks back to some sort of golden period of MPB/samba, but to me it goes back further than Clube da Esquina. I feel it sounds more like late 60s albums'Travessia' or 'Milton Nascimento'. I hear bits of 60s Caetano and Chico Buarque in there too.
― giraffe, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 13:37 (four months ago) link
Roge album is produced by Thomas Brenneck , best known for playing guitar with retro soul Sharon Jones and producing for Daptone. Plus Arthur Verocai did string arrangements and he’s best known for his 1970s work.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:46 (four months ago) link
I'm a dummy when it comes to hearing about recent MPB so I'm just the target for the Roge album crossover, I guess.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:00 (four months ago) link
xp i will admit that that's compelling evidence for calling this a "retro" project, and i certainly don't mind anyone thinking of it that way
but for whatever reason i think of this basically as excellent MPB (so my 'otm' above was really more about the first part of fpsa's post)
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:10 (four months ago) link
Seeing good reviews for film documentary "They Shot the Piano Player" about the life of and disappearance of Brazilian samba/ bossa nova/ jazz pianist Francisco Tenorio Jr on tour in Argentina in 1976 at age 34. Some big name Brazilian musicians are heard in this doc talking about him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQwajCDIwcg
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:08 (one month ago) link
yeah, keep meaning to see that
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 17:41 (one month ago) link
https://fabianodonascimento.bandcamp.com/album/ohayou
very chill, not too brazilian vibe tbh, might also work in Ambient/post/nu/new-age jazz - S/D
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 06:50 (one week ago) link
Yeah, he's amazing, got to see him live last year, played solo with some pedals and loopers and such... really beautiful music...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 19:33 (one week ago) link