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
Interesting
― 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