Modern Brazil - s/d

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

I'm thinking so myself but I don't speak Portuguesee or really know the issues.

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

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/

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.

Love the new Céu album

Just got back from an incredible trip to Brazil

Nice.

The Céu album sounds pretty good so far.

I like that easy-going Teresa Cristina album Ben Ratliff reviewed in the NY Times back in January.

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.

Oh no, forgot Ceu is in DC tomorrow night and have other plans I can't get out of.

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.”

From the Olympic opening ceremony with Anitta, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and more

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

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.

Wish I had noticed when it was up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_K9j3fb8Es

By the way, NYT did a good job in this playlist http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/arts/music/brazilian-music-playlist.html

Yeah, I was hesitant to read at first but it turned out to be decent, they covered a lot of ground.

Glad they mentioned Chico Science & Nacão Zumbi. Would have also been nice to see Lenine and Moreno+2 in there.

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.

More discussion and stuff for opening ceremony here:

Caetano Veloso S and D

Ava Rocha Tour USA is coming!

August 5th – Joe’s Pub (New York) 9:30 pm - $ 15
425 Lafayette St, New York, NY
http://www.songkick.com/artists/8814094-ava- rocha

August 6th – Nublu (New York) - 11 pm - $10
Brasil Summerfest’s Closing Party
62 Avenue C, New York, NY (East Village)
http://www.nublu.net/

August 9th – Trans-Pecos Brooklyn (New York)
915 Wycoff Av, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
8:00 pm - concert Marcos Campello+ Steve Dalachinsky
8:30 pm - Nigth - film by Paula Gaitán
10:00 pm - concert Ava Rocha

August 12th – Tropicalia (Washington) - 11 pm
2001 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009
http://www.tropicaliadc.com/

August 13th – Nublu (New York) - 10 pm - special guest Gui Amabis
151, Avenue C, between 9/10th Streets , East Village
http://www.nublu.net/

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Ava Rocha launches her first tour in the United States

Saw a pic of Caetano around the Olympics on Instagram holding a sign in Portuguese saying that their interim President must go

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

Carnival portion of Olympics closing ceremony is great

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

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/

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

Oops, just noticed your byline, curmudgeon.

Anyway, the full Metá Metá album on spotify

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.

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).
credits
released September 19, 2016

I like the more melodic and more rocking tracks over the avante-jazzy ones, on the comp

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

Saw Seu Jorge on tour, solo with acoustic guitar, doing his David Bowie set. Nice show

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

Mahmundi is a great new artist from Rio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_w-yjlbFgU

Maybe I have to giver her another listen. Her electro-soul seemed nice enough, but didn't wow me on my first listen.

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...

After this recommendation about a year ago I bought the Rodrigo Campos lp: Brazilian Music

I really like it, beautiful package also.

Yikes, meant to post this, sorry!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0U4Kx0hhtE

the comp is here:

https://gomagringa.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-descontru-o

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.

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.

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.

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.

Was just listening to a Campos album on Youtube. Nice stuff.

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.

carlinhos Brown new album this year-- artefireaccua, has more ballads than I rember from him on the past

remember

Album didn't wow me on first listen, but has some good tracks

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:

César Lacerda & Romulo Fróes – O Meu Nome é Qualquer Um (google translate says that means in English): My Name is Anyone

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