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
he's still part of the band (he also founded it), O Terno.they're kinda big in the independent scene, but by no means they're 'famous'
― fpsa, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/pabllo-vittar-baianasystem-brazilian-politics-1234704876/?curator=MediaREDEF
BaianaSystem’s music was in constant dialogue with the country’s zeitgeist. A year after Bolsonaro took office, the band released their sophomore album, O Futuro Não Demora (“The Future Won’t Take Long”). They weren’t strangers to sharing direct, uncompromising messages with their listeners — their first album was full of sharp, stabbing lyrics blended with Afro-Latin tones, a punk rock attitude, and traces of Bahia’s pagodão, a modern percussion-soaked strand of samba. Their second release was even more blunt: In the feverish modern mambo jam “Sulamericano,” French-Colombian artist Manu Chao joins in as Passapusso sings, “Counter-attack, I’m making plans to counter-attack.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
Djavan is an old-timer at this point and some of his songs are too busy or too jazz fusiony for me, but I love his ballads and liked some of his songs on his most recent album D. He's starting on his first North American tour in 13 years. Thinking I might go see his suburban DC area gig Friday night
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 April 2023 20:58 (one year ago) link
I'm enjoying the new album by Rogê - 'new' but leans heavily on Baden/Vinicius, Jorge Ben, Verocai etc. https://www.waxpoetics.com/article/roge-samba-rock-meets-tommy-brenneck-bespoke-soul/
― giraffe, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 14:34 (one year ago) link
great recommendation, thanks!
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
will check this out
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
ok, so this fucking rules
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
Fun comp, pretty wild nursery tales sometymes, varied x compatible enough, on Mr. Bongo's Bandcamp: https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0753925496_16.jpg
― dow, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
This week: A special Semipop Life guest post from @BrazilBeat1, so you can get your dirty samba recommendations wholesale without me playing middleman and asking "but how much does this sound like Tom Zé really":https://t.co/b1UfgjEW03 pic.twitter.com/fQU2K3TI1s— bradluen (@bradluen) May 14, 2023
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
Luedji Luna, r&b crooner from Salvador, Bahia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omjgry2dYbg
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 2 July 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
Enjoying the most recent Julia Mestre album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QoWXDh-0As
― giraffe, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 08:20 (eleven months ago) link
The album is called Arrepiada and it's lovely.
― giraffe, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 08:21 (eleven months ago) link
I'm only coming back to it now, but I still think Marina Sena is fascinating, even in an ocean of autotune. The album is Vicio Inerente.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RT1BKhL51IOlho no Gato
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 12:16 (eleven months ago) link
Tidal served me up that Rogê album and I'm loving it - those strings!
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 10:27 (ten months ago) link
Roge is doing some US gigs shortly. A one hour free one in DC at Kennedy Center on November 30 at 6pm et that will also be streamed on Kennedy Center YouTube and Facebook ( and archived on YouTube) plus a Los Angeles gig December 5 says Spotify
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 November 2023 16:30 (ten months ago) link
https://brazilbeatblog.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/2023-part-one/
Romulo Flores who is one of many acts mentioned in this blog , has 2 collaboration releases this year — Na Goela which combines traditional Brazilian with noisy guitar rock & is with Tiago Rosas; and Elefante which is more tuneful Brazilian and is recorded with Rodrigo Campos. The blogger just mentions the noisier one and compares it to a Wire album. I don’t exactly hear Wire on that one
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:58 (ten months ago) link
Eh typo . Romulo Froes with an accent mark over the o in Froes
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 November 2023 22:00 (ten months ago) link
The one time I went to Brazil we planned on seeing Romulo Froes perform, but our flights there got delayed and we missed the gig.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 19 November 2023 18:09 (ten months ago) link
I still need to listen to more acts mentioned on that Brazilbeat blog
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 November 2023 23:43 (nine months ago) link
Roge “Curyman” album made the Mojo list and was just nominated for ilx list ballot . Yay!
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 December 2023 22:13 (nine months ago) link
It's in my top 10 for sure!
― budo jeru, Monday, 11 December 2023 22:38 (nine months ago) link
thoroughly enjoyable record, my kinda revivalism
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 07:32 (nine months ago) link
woop
― giraffe, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 08:17 (nine months ago) link
Roge with a drummer doing a 1 hour free show at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPRPM8r_ZNE
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 16:57 (nine months ago) link
I nominated it! That style of music is so rich and beautiful, it shouldn't need to be revived; and he's really adept at it.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 01:58 (nine months ago) link
he didn't really 'revived' anything, folks. he's a regular guy doing regular MPB by any measure! it's good, but it's weird to see such laurels, idk...
― fpsa, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 02:19 (nine months ago) link
otm
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 04:16 (nine months ago) link
not much available in the anglosphere about mpb between the 80's and now tbf, and even some of the brazilian sources I've read don't stray outside that timeframe, boomer hegemony I guess
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 10:30 (nine months ago) link
by revivalism I meant that the mpb sound on his album has a "retro" tinge to my ears, just listen to the strings
there's probably a good/boring explanation (apart from the quality of the material) for why this particular record is getting so much exposure
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 10:53 (nine months ago) link
I've enjoyed the album but my immediate thought was how close it sounds to Clube da Esquina and how much it relies on arrangements when I rather expect a strong vocal personality and some kind of messing-up with the formula from modern MPB. So my uneducated guess is that it gets exposure from precisely not following the program.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 13:09 (nine months ago) link