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
baden powell's "os afrosambas" springs to mind. loving this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLbWNMb8IPo
https://sessa.bandcamp.com/album/grandeza-2
― gaudio, Friday, 31 January 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
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?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
anybody listening to the new Ceu album?― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, July 9, 2009 9:04 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, July 9, 2009 9:04 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
bump
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
She's a good not great singer but the production textures and moods she employs are consistently right up my alley
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
Carlinhos Brown has 2 new releases out
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 September 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
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.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 7 March 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― giraffe, Monday, 8 March 2021 09:06 (three years ago) link
slow albums<3
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 8 March 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
have been enjoying Gilbertos Samba (2014) by Gilberto Gil a lot lately
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 8 March 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
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,
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
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 playlisthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKOOnchcbgMarina Sena - Voltei Pra Mim
― Nabozo, Friday, 27 August 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link
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=ZZvklZlkPNMMarina Sena - Me Toca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2oCXnPgTW0Marina Sena - Amiude
― Nabozo, Friday, 27 August 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
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.
― Nabozo, Friday, 27 August 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link
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=xqGZTrbjhrEJuçara Marçal - Lembranças que Guardei (feat. Fernando Catatau)
Reminds me of Sevdaliza
― Nabozo, Sunday, 28 November 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBDq_-D4jdYLinn da Quebrada - I Missil
from Trava línguas which I am getting into now and strongly suggest others also do soThis kind of Brazilian jazzy r&b pop is quite unheard of
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
I'm less a fan of the electronic bass stuff, but still a wonderful creative and vibrant record by a trans artist
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
There's a new Tulipa Ruiz, called Habilidades extraordinárias ! I'll just post the opener. She sounds just as good and fresh as she did 12 year ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBqy4z5xc1oTulipa Ruiz - Samaúma
― Nabozo, Saturday, 19 November 2022 09:12 (one year ago) link
I'm just reporting that the first six songs here are very good, if not quite as innovative as the jazzy arrangements were on Efemera.If there is a highlight in terms of songwriting, it is probably Kamikaze Total.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7JdNIBneoATulipa Ruiz - Kamikaze Total
― Nabozo, Sunday, 27 November 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
https://brazilbeatblog.wordpress.com/top-ten-lists/
This blog had Tulipa Ruiz in a top 10 list for 2015, and one of my faves Romulo Froes in a couple of other years
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 November 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
sessa - "estrela acesa" and tim bernardes - "mil coisas invisíveis" are two i really enjoyed this year. both could be described as retro and i saw today that both made the aquarium drunkard EOY list.
― budo jeru, Monday, 12 December 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
bernardes record kind of a downer singer-songwriter workout for fans of caetano's "transa" while the sessa record is more like mystic samba in the vein of powell / de moraes.
― budo jeru, Monday, 12 December 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
agree, two v good records
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 10:04 (one year ago) link
Listened to Bernardes last night. Good but retro and Caetano Velosa like
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
Veloso and maybe shouldn't have said "but"
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
Really enjoying the Tim Bernardes album and wish I'd heard it in time to nominate it for the EOY poll. I get that it's retro but it's a sound that should never die.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 13:06 (one year ago) link
Seem to recall his previous album was also very satisfying. And was he in some famous rock group?
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link