Modern Brazil - s/d

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

Thanks for posting

Luisa Maita is gonna tour the US again. No new album out as far as I can tell (although 1 new song)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2014/03/28/brazils-luisa-maita-on-samba-sao-paulo-and-speedy-beats/

interview

Luisa Maita and her great band live nicely blended old-school and new school sounds. Looking forward to her next album

Her band had a funky drummer with a kit and a laptop, plus guitarist & bassist who have heard postpunk and funk...

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

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

this is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=850VvOreUf4

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:

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.

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.

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...

Jucara Marcal--post-punk sorta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18p5_PiPk8E

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.

I still haven't checked her music out on Youtube or wherever yet

Her bio plays up her classic Brazilian critic type influences, but this album on Spotify has more arena pop melodrama than I generally like.

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

She's doing a NYC gig and others too. But I'm not won over based on my brief listening to 2 albums

Gonna go visit Brazil on a holiday/vacation trip/adventure

Anyone else here been there, or live there now?

I don't, but i understand this song is extremely popular there right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzOkza_u3Z8

Romulo Froes 2015 album Por elas Sem elas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zadIoJoozS4&feature=youtu.be

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/serafina/2016/03/1735274-ensaio-reune-emicida-tulipa-ruiz-e-jucara-marcal-em-palacete-de-sp.shtml

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

group getting some attention for having two trans singers, and some attention for the songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv-C_rFHFOw

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

Negro Leo (has collaborated with Ava Rocha)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQpihajJR6M

Dream Team Do Passinho

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/streets-rio-nyc-brazilian-dance-team-n429991

http://soundsandcolours.com/articles/brazil/funk-carioca-the-beat-goes-on-24382/

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

Interesting

Rob, youtube searches also turn up lots of the ‘funk putaria’ (literally ‘fornication/prostitution funk’) in addition to funk carioca

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.

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/

May be seeing Romulo Froes perform in a few days

He has written for Elza Soares too

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.

I had such a great time there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej6jdAnlIq4

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

We also saw small more informal "blocos" in various streets of Rio and Salvador

Plus just hearing Brazilian sounds in shops and restaurants and in some taxis (that weren't playing American pop)was cool too

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.

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.

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

This is the big hit though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGov-KH7hkM

Sounds like the pirate version of Redfoo's red thang. Not sure if it's a sample or a steal.

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.

Listening now to Ava Rocha, who mixes samba with rock. She made Ben Ratliff of the NY Times top 10 album list

Others and I have also mentioned Ava upthread