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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
Interesting
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 23:54 (seven 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
anyone recommend brazilian music documentaries?
― niels, Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:37 (six years ago) link
but which kind of Brazilian music?
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 11 February 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
anything really, but I guess samba would be the big one, tropicalia would probably be awesome
― niels, Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
kind of hard to find one with english subtitles. anyway: https://acasadevidro.com/2016/01/26/70-documentarios-completos-sobre-musica-brasileira-sua-historia-a-casa-de-vidro-com/
have you seen this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaFakolFvNo
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
x-post The Guardian on that 2017 Criolo album:
Criolo’s latest album will startle many of his fans. The popular Brazilian rapper and singer is best known for mixing hip-hop with anything from reggae and funk to samba, but on this release, he switches exclusively to samba, with a relaxed set dominated by his often crooned, no-nonsense vocals, with backing provided not by keyboards and programming but by the tiny, guitar-like cavaquinho (played by a member of Pagode da 27, a neighbourhood samba project in São Paulo), along with seven-stringed guitar, percussion and brass. Many of his new songs sound like tuneful old classics, but there is an angry, contemporary edge to the lyrics (although sadly no English translations are provided
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/30/criolo-espiral-de-ilusao-review-seamless-samba-with-conscious-lyrics
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
I still haven't checked on this new Criolo album but I like him
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
xp thanks, that should keep me busy for a while!
BBC doc was cool too, wish it was 10 hours long (and questioning the standard narrative a bit more)
― niels, Monday, 12 February 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
2 years ago the wife and I made our first visit to Brazil and loved Carnival in both Bahia/Salvador and Rio. Seeing FB and Instagram postings the last few days has me missing it.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xhQBPzfONlQJ:www.okayafrica.com/how-ile-aiye-changed-salvadors-carnival-forever-and-uplifted-black-people-in-brazil/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Ile Aiye are one of the most important blocos in Carnival in Bahia
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
http://afropop.org/articles/carnaval-in-recife-brazil-photo-essay
Another part of Brazil celebrates Carnival a bit differently
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 February 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
Carlinhos Brown's Instagram account is a lot of fun. Lots of Bahia carnival footage recently. I still need to check out his 2017 album that Xchuckxx Eddy put in his Village Voice Pazz & Jop top 10
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
Carlinhos Brown's Semelhantes album from 2017 does not appear to be listed in his English language Wiki bio or his Allmusic.com discography
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhptBT_-VI
I feel like this is not the type of music I'm supposed to post itt but maybe someone can point me towards a rolling thread where it fits? In case you find it crass I can say it works perfectly in a club, you're drunk, dancing, and it's very very loud
― niels, Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
That’s fine here...It’s modern Brazilian music. Whether Anitta feels she is being exploited is another question.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 February 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
cool, glad to hear that
has there been negative stories surrounding the song? seems like a pretty big hit
― niels, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
aaw fucks sake I see now it's a Terry Richardson video - why the fuck that guy keeps getting work is beyond me
― niels, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
Elza Soares is back. Deus é Mulher released May 17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw9ke8zt7XA
― Chaos reigns... in my pants (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
Given the delay for UK/US release for A Mulher do Fim do Mundo, the anglophone press will probably praise it in 2020...
― Chaos reigns... in my pants (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
Ha. It is on US Spotify now, not sure about other formats.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/more-dead-than-alive-rios-closure-of-legendary-club-reflects-cultural-crisis#img-2
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
sad story
― niels, Friday, 13 July 2018 08:50 (five years ago) link