Modern Brazil - s/d

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

Still lots of stuff for me to get hip to, or catch up on from both old and young Brasileros

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

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.