Your gal costa stuff...

I'm asssuming the dusty groove reissue will take the edge off those $250 price tags on amazon

Just bought Gal (1969) from Sounds of the Universe in London. A few too many psychedlic indulgences for my taste, but still great. What a voice, fuck.

(1975) Gal Costa - Modinha Para Gabriela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA-9Z4Iyvd8

Her 2006 Live at the Blue Note is nice but sorta conventional--small group doing bossa style Jobim songs plus "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn song).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoVfYsCqLQY

This song kills me.

never saw this footage before (maybe from a tv special?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz-hjB_acsg

According to IMDB, it's a stand-alone short film; the director, Antonio Carlos da Fontoura, made a short film with/about Os Mutantes the same year. I've always been curious about the relation between the Tropicália musicians and the Cinema Novo filmmakers, but I imagine information is hard to come by if you don't speak Portuguese.
Those visuals and her whole demeanour were a lot more introvert than I expected from just listening to the record; I guess it's balanced by the outgoing live performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK0hb3fRnQc

Both of those short films are really great to see, but also...

That Os Mutantes one clearly shows them (in some of the clips) at Disneyland in the late 60s - I had no idea they visited the U.S. at all in their earlier years?? According to this blog they stopped through on the way back from Europe in Feb/March 1969: https://mutanteslive.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/o-planeta-dos-mutantes/

Fontoura's feature debut, Copacabana Me Engana, opens with Gal's version of Baby (and also has Mutantes and Gilberto Gil on the soundtrack)(no subtitles, unfortunately).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKwcqfOWfFw

biopic from lô politi and dandara feirrera coming in 2023:

https://www.opovo.com.br/vidaearte/2022/02/12/filme-sobre-gal-costa-protagonizado-por-sophie-charlotte-inicia-gravacoes.html

https://f.i.uol.com.br/fotografia/2022/03/03/16463213436220debf99bf9_1646321343_3x2_rt.jpg

Interesting re the movie.

Haven't listened to her a lot but doing so now.

lol sophie charlotte is a pretty bad pick for the role... so many others actress to choose.

gal is great and still going - her last album from 2021 is nice, the 2011 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recanto - is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RrDAI7tFzU and this keeps me going when I miss the homeland

Will check out the 2011 one. Went to your homeland once — to carnival in Rio and Bahia / Salvador and had an amazing time.

I love this thread title. It suggests that we all have Gal Costa stuff, not just records but also t-shirts, commemorative stamps, Gal Costa choose your own adventure books.

Gal Costa T-shirt

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Gal-Costa-by-rodrigodiasart/75354596.NL9AC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdV2t1CH-CI

Gal Costa died today

https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-63573370

http://www.brazilcult.com/image/data/guides/gal_costa_fatal_1st/capa.jpg

best live record ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBsoe2Y7Rc

oh no dammit

She was so great.

What a voice. RIP

There were a good few years where her records would be a part of the morning rotation, her work is part of my mind now. Would highly recommend checking out this whole live show of her and som imaginario on youtube, but this one performance really captures something that doesn't really get captured often

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMEYXZ4b2hI

Was listening to her this weekend — Gal Canta Caymmi is really sweet. RIP.

cosign the love for the A Todo Vapor live album, a massive classic for me. rip legend.

RIP, a voice like a ray of sunshine

https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2022/11/09/caetano-lamenta-a-morte-de-gal-a-maior-cantora-do-brasil.ghtml

gil and caetano talking about her. caetano sings (one of the many) songs she wrote for her... too much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6khZzKCSomE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idG1ozQcFxg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBRcHU0xAI

she was awesome.

thank you fpsa for that Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil link. i didn't need to be able to understand them to be moved.

RIP gal. an immense lost. her voice was unmistakable and one of my favorite sounds.