Modern Brazil - s/d

Elza Soares is back. Deus é Mulher released May 17.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw9ke8zt7XA

Given the delay for UK/US release for A Mulher do Fim do Mundo, the anglophone press will probably praise it in 2020...

Ha. It is on US Spotify now, not sure about other formats.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/more-dead-than-alive-rios-closure-of-legendary-club-reflects-cultural-crisis#img-2

sad story

did he really say "caramba" though

Did he really toss the Lapa neighborhood, favelas, and Sugarloaf Mountain all together in one paragraph

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/07/10/brazilian-experimental-list/

mentions albums such as:

Various Artists
Real Rio: rock, pop, noise and electronic music from Rio de Janeiro

Chinese Cookie Poets-

Opus Dei-

Juçara Marçal & Cadu Tenório

and more

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.

Stern's music website says folks who buy stuff from them still like Criolo 's ESPIRAL DE ILUSAO from December 2017

Still behind in listening to the above. I guess you all are also.

Still behind on listening to that Bandcamp experimental stuff and the Afropop podcast

Still so far behind in listening to 2018 Brazilian music. Am now listening to Romulo Froes- O Disco das Horas

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 Avante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxaRPeCdxfs

Ano Bom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRB2FFrj9GM

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Carne Doce were ok on first listen. Postpunk sorta

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.

Liking Sao Paulo indie-electro pop act Labaq

still like it, but no Pitchfork review so no attention outside of Brazil (despite recent short US tour)

this is a spectacularly great song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRnrScSCik

ffffffffresh!

love it!

Anitta has a track on the forthcoming Charlie's Angels sountrack.

...and here it is (released today):

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

X-post — I like reggaeton feel to the song Corrs posted

there's now a bad drake remix of that very song

you are Drake

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

https://www.b9.com.br/119034/os-10-melhores-albuns-nacionais-de-2019/

Rapper Emacita on top, followed byy Black Alien, and Eza Soares

Elza

baden powell's "os afrosambas" springs to mind. loving this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLbWNMb8IPo

https://sessa.bandcamp.com/album/grandeza-2

Quarantine sending me some unusual ear-worms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ffMcQWsO4

Only musical instrument is jaw-harp, everything else is voice & body percussion (stomp, clap)

I really love the Bahai-an/NorthEastern scale of the female chorus, sounds Mixolydian i think?

anybody listening to the new Ceu album?

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bump

She's a good not great singer but the production textures and moods she employs are consistently right up my alley

Carlinhos Brown has 2 new releases out

I am discovering that Mateus Aleluia, a member from Os Tincoãs, released an album in 2010 called Cinco Sentidos and that it's got to be one of most beautiful slow albums I know. Maybe I am especially the mood but I am absolutely hooked. He is 67 on the album and sings along his daughter on a few numbers. It's ravishing, spiritual.

Thanks for the tip, Nabozo. This is just what I needed after a restless night last night.

I see he has some recent releases too.

slow albums
<3

have been enjoying Gilbertos Samba (2014) by Gilberto Gil a lot lately

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/meet-the-women-bringing-brazilian-grime-and-drill-to-new-heights/

Brazil / Brasil grime and drill

There is the aforementioned N.I.N.A., a DJ-turned-rapper and forthright social critic who is unafraid to illustrate the realities of the racist, sexist industry she is forced to navigate. Behind the boards, São Paulo-based DJ Peroli has landed high-profile sets on online radio stations like Rinse FM and NTS. And behind the scenes, women like Yvie Oliveira, executive producer of the YouTube series Brasil Grime Show, are helping to shape the next generation of rappers and MCs; inspired by British platforms like Reprezent Radio,

Marina Sena has her first album out and it's a breezy pop-reggae affair infused with Brazilian rhythms and a style that reminds of Marisa Monte even if her voice is less soft.

I am five songs in and this immediately goes on my playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKOOnchcbg
Marina Sena - Voltei Pra Mim

And she deserves to have more posted, especially from the last songs she wrote for the album. Fantastic voice. She is fast growing on me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvklZlkPNM
Marina Sena - Me Toca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2oCXnPgTW0
Marina Sena - Amiude

The whole set is wonderful (Cabelo !) and full of lyrical subtleties and variations while keeping an appearance of being upbeat and catchy. Her voice will be an acquired taste but I'm won over.

I struggled a little bit at first with the Juçara Marçal album but the first and last three songs (from when the synth enters on Lembranças followed by autotune !) are really fun and diverse. I saw her the other day do a short set with Kiko Dinucci, who is really this force to reckon with, my eyes were set on his guitar and it was physical. True virtuoso and genius. And I thought Juçara was 45 and she's rather 60.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqGZTrbjhrE
Juçara Marçal - Lembranças que Guardei (feat. Fernando Catatau)

Reminds me of Sevdaliza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBDq_-D4jdY
Linn da Quebrada - I Missil

from Trava línguas which I am getting into now and strongly suggest others also do so
This kind of Brazilian jazzy r&b pop is quite unheard of

I'm less a fan of the electronic bass stuff, but still a wonderful creative and vibrant record by a trans artist