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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
Ha. It is on US Spotify now, not sure about other formats.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:18 (six 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 (six years ago) link
sad story
― niels, Friday, 13 July 2018 08:50 (six years ago) link
did he really say "caramba" though
― niels, Friday, 13 July 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link
Did he really toss the Lapa neighborhood, favelas, and Sugarloaf Mountain all together in one paragraph
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/07/10/brazilian-experimental-list/
mentions albums such as:
Various ArtistsReal Rio: rock, pop, noise and electronic music from Rio de Janeiro
Chinese Cookie Poets-
Opus Dei-
Juçara Marçal & Cadu Tenório
and more
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 July 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
I need to catch up on both the Bandcamp stuff above (though it might be too experimental for my tastes) and this afropop podcast below
http://afropop.org/audio-programs/brazil-at-a-crossroads
Brazil has seen its ups and downs since it became an independent empire in 1822: strongman leaders, military rule, populist democracy and more. In 2018, a politically weary nation faces a stark electoral choice between radically different futures. But whatever was happening in the halls of power, Brazil has always produced powerful, beautiful and ecstatic music, and always known how to party. On Afropop’s 2018 return trip to Brazil, We take a deep dive into the music and evolution of Carnaval in Salvador, Bahia, and dig into new developments in MPB, roots and rock from Pernambuco, Baile funk, new sounds from Amazonia and more from one of the most prolific musical nations on earth.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 August 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
Stern's music website says folks who buy stuff from them still like Criolo 's ESPIRAL DE ILUSAO from December 2017
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 August 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
Still behind in listening to the above. I guess you all are also.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
Still behind on listening to that Bandcamp experimental stuff and the Afropop podcast
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 August 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
Still so far behind in listening to 2018 Brazilian music. Am now listening to Romulo Froes- O Disco das Horas
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
From 2014, Arrigo Barnabe, Luiz Tatit, & Livia Nestrovski - De Nada Mais a Algo Além. The whole disk is fantastic, but here are a couple faves:
Dora Avantehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxaRPeCdxfs
Ano Bomhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRB2FFrj9GM
― screator, Thursday, 3 January 2019 06:50 (five years ago) link
Google translate tells me the following about the above collaboration of age 60 something experimental musicians Barnabe and Tatit with younger vocalist Nestrovski--
After a chance meeting in 2011, at an event to honor Assis Valente and Nelson Cavaquinho, the contemporaries Arrigo Barnabé and Luiz Tatit decided to work together. To give voice to the compositions, the pair chose Lívia Nestrovski
I am not seeing anything more recent by Barnabe and Tatit via a quick internet search, but I see that Nestrovski has done work with Brazilian jazz guitarist Fred Ferreira
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 January 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2017/L/Livia-Nestrovski--Fred-Ferreira/
Via this link I then decided to also investigate Tim Bernardes (whom I can't find any prior ilxor mentions of). According to the link
Leader of the highly praised Brazilian band O Terno, the singer/songwriter, producer and multi-instrumantist Tim Bernardes released his debout solo album in 2017. Claimed by Brazilian icons such as Arnaldo Baptista (Os Mutantes), O Terno have played to large audiences including Primavera Sound (in Spain) and Lollapalooza BR. Tim wrote songs and recorded with brazilian tropicalist legend Tom Zé and worked with artists as Adriano Cintra (CSS), Gorky (Bonde do Rolê) and David Byrne. In his solo album he is responsible for playing, producing and writing the orchestral arrangements. His work has been reviewed by Brazilian newspaper giant O Globo describing "Tim, at 25, already seems to proves himself as the greatest songwriter of his generation”.
Not sure if he's the greatest blah blah blah, but his top tracks on Spotify are tunefully pleasant enough in a retro acoustic Brazilian pop way.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 January 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
https://talitaavelino.bandcamp.com/album/azul-bahia
Talita Avelino's latest album is on Bandcamp and not Spotify). She's got a sweet bossa voice on her prior 2017 effort. Haven't listened to her 2018 one yet.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 January 2019 00:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.allmusic.com/album/ofert%C3%B3rio-ao-vivo-mw0003181253
The Caetano Veloso 2018 live album Ofertório (Ao Vivo) with his sons Moreno, Zeca, and Tom is pretty nice. They do various songs from his whole career.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 January 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link
http://505indie.com.br/acervo/os-50-melhores-albuns-brasileiros-de-2018/
Elza Soares at 10; Carne Doce's Tonus at #1 (who?); 34. Heavy Baile – Carne de Pescoço is funk carioca; 38 is Ava Rocha
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 January 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
Carne Doce were ok on first listen. Postpunk sorta
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
Wow, there's a lot to check out in that list.
One I don't see there but which I have been enjoying is Airto Moreira's Aluê (it came out Dec. 2017). Most of it I gather is rerecordings of older material, but it was all new to me.
― screator, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link
Liking Sao Paulo indie-electro pop act Labaq
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
still like it, but no Pitchfork review so no attention outside of Brazil (despite recent short US tour)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 03:02 (five years ago) link
this is a spectacularly great song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRnrScSCik
ffffffffresh!
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 11 October 2019 10:00 (four years ago) link
love it!
― ogmor, Friday, 11 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
Anitta has a track on the forthcoming Charlie's Angels sountrack.
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
...and here it is (released today):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSneYkvMrGs
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
X-post — I like reggaeton feel to the song Corrs posted
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
there's now a bad drake remix of that very song
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
you are Drake
― breastcrawl, Friday, 15 November 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
https://beehy.pe/romulo-froes-o-disco-das-horas-brazil/
I think this is Romulo Froes latest album. It’s from 2018, I still like it. Great melding of trad and avante
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 January 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.b9.com.br/119034/os-10-melhores-albuns-nacionais-de-2019/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 January 2020 06:04 (four years ago) link
Rapper Emacita on top, followed byy Black Alien, and Eza Soares
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 January 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
Elza