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 (eight 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