Brazilian Music

In which case ... I sure don't know much. Don't know about everyone else, though.

anyone know anything about the 60s/70s era musician Tuca? She was a guitarist largely responsible for the sound of 2 of my top 10 all-time favorite records, Nara Leao's DEZ ANOS DEPOIS & Francoise Hardy's LA QUESTION. She apparently recorded 3 albums under her own name, I don't think they have been released on cd. Anyone have these?

TS: Laura Nyro vs. Nara Leao

A seemingly exhaustive intro to everything Joao Donato:

http://www.bjbear71.com/Donato/joao.html#Index

The woman who put that together is a trip. Check out the rest of her site- has the same for a bunch of arrangers and composers. Including like a dozen poems she wrote for Claus Ogerman

Also about two years late but Tuca's "Dracula I Love You" is very good

; )

Nice website and the links too.

I'm partial to Lula Cortes & Ze Ramalho' Paebiru, and the Satwa disc. The 1st 2 Gal Costa records are excellent. Caetano Veloso is consistently pretty interesting but he waxes a bit loungy for me at times, hence my preference for his 1st couple of records & Azul (I think that was the name). Those at least sound like the punch in the lounge was dosed with ayahuasca.

The separate Veloso c or d thread has me wanting to obtain numerous albums of his.

Caetano Veloso S and D

The bossa thread has numerous items I should get too. bossa nova: S&D

veloso's '69 self-titled is great, the a-side is perfect. "the empty boat" was the track that really got me into tropicalia.

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

currently listening to fairly cheeseball sub-Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 reissue of an album by D'Angelo (no, not that D'Angelo) - pretty fun and campy. includes a bunch of early Tim Maia covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Ej6UvAmEU

you can hear a mixture of stuff here - http://bmabrazil.bandcamp.com/

I just had a dream, not long before waking up, that I was reading a Nabisco post in which he mentioned the fact that there was a year when the only instrument used in Brazilian music was the theremin. (I don't think it was said explicitly in the post, but I understood this to be the result of some weird government censorship.)

Read ILM less and I end up dreaming about it. :(

New Maria Rita. Warning: turn up your volume, this first one is very quiet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB8PUvKUdaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_gI8tfXrII

I wonder how popular she is in Brazil?

Pretty sure she is quite popular.

Thanks. Not that it matters, I like her anyway, but I was just curious whether her style still reached a large audience there.

Actually, looking at the Brazilian sales figures for her albums on Wikipedia, she doesn't sell very big. She could still be big, but possibly she is a lot less popular than I thought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rita#Discography

My late Summer love of 2011 was Burnier e Cartier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XF5jW8p7Qo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuMN5MghZwk

Come learn the 4 most popular Brazilian dances in fun 3 sessions; Zouk, Samba de gafieira and Forro, and Samba no pe!

email from a meetup group I joined, but alas my schedule won't work for these series of lessons

Zouk?

Has it moved from the Caribbean to Brazil?

Can I pop into this thread to note what a fantastic album the late Suba's Sao Paulo Confessions (2000) is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJGQGsY6p_g

Has it moved from the Caribbean to Brazil?

Interesting.

Regarding Papa Wheelie's fave from last year that I forgot to look into. Need to check later and see if on Spotify

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Burnier-e-Cartier-LP-1976-Folk-Psych-Brazil-Rare-HEAR-/380320469777

http://soundcloud.com/bm-a/sets/the-new-brazilian-music-vol-4

This is popular with European whirled music djs

I like it too

http://www.whatslater.com/

a fair amount of Brazilian music coverage on this guy's blog of his writing

MAGA BO - QUILOMBO DO FUTURO

and a remixed version out. He's an American who moved to Brazil. Haven't listened yet but the press release claims

The original tracks united the organic subtleties of the Afro-Brazilian rhythms coco, maculelê, samba, gong and capoeira with the punchy, powerful, electronic based sounds of dub, raga, hip hop and dubstep. Batucada and bass, mids, treble. TUDO. The remixes take the tracks even further….

The wonderful Choro das 3 is finishing up a US tour with some shows in NYC, especially on at Barbes next Thursday: http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?95822-Choro-das-Tres-US-tour-May-July-2013

This festival going on right now for a few more days: http://www.ny.savassifestival.com.br/

http://cinemaguild.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TCGS&Product_Code=2458

But have you seen the recent Gilberto Gil movie doc Viramundo?

anyone know anything about the 60s/70s era musician Tuca? She was a guitarist largely responsible for the sound of 2 of my top 10 all-time favorite records, Nara Leao's DEZ ANOS DEPOIS & Francoise Hardy's LA QUESTION. She apparently recorded 3 albums under her own name, I don't think they have been released on cd. Anyone have these?

― gershy, Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:13 AM (5 years ago)

gershy, are you me? I have 2 of the Tuca LPs: Meu Eu and Dracula, I Love You
don't love them as much as the Leao and (especially) Hardy LPs, but there's something about her: like people you meet with the same birthday as you. plus I play Villa-Lobos -influenced acoustic guitar. Dracula... has a lot of personality.

But have you seen the recent Gilberto Gil movie doc Viramundo?
Nope, but I did see it mentioned on the Tom Jobim thread, I believe.

I forget on what thread we were discussing books about Brazilian music, but I just saw mention of this recent effort:

Ickes, Scott. 2013. Afro-Brazilian Culture and
Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil. Gainesville: University Press of
Florida.

Can I pop into this thread to note what a fantastic album the late Suba's Sao Paulo Confessions (2000) is?

http://www.youtube.com/v/TJGQGsY6p_g&fs=1&hl=en

― Sanpaku, Sunday, April 8, 2012 7:53 PM (2 years ago Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it's good for late at night or like, early in the morning if it's raining.

A very wet album.

I wish I hadn't taken so long to find out about this! It would have fit in well with the DJ Food and Amon Tobin I was listening to at the time it came out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye_0WAFu7IQ

I'm in love with this. Sort of a lost Brazilian freak folk album. Backstory: both girls shared a farm with a photographer and had kids with him (!)

Modern Brazil - s/d

It's not 'modern'. 1979 record

That was just a reminder to myself regarding that other Brazilian music thread

Thanks for the tip, tracking that LP down

This summer, in a couple of weeks, Tom Ze, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso will play in Copenhagen. Completely insane.

Enjoy. Have seen Gil and Veloso in recent years and thought both put on great shows (although a friend thinks their voices have deteriorated)

http://samba.afropop.org/

intended for school kids and life-long learners they say

For extra bonus Gil and Veloso will perform together! And for extra extra bonus, my parents sorta share my obsession with Brazilian music, so they are buying the tickets!

http://livestream.com/jazz/Trio-Da-Paz-and-Friends
Right now. Next set starts in about 15 minutes or you can rewind

thanks

Any 2015 albums or songs people especially liked?

Haven't really followed along, but Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil acoustic was concert of the year for me!

Rodrigo Campos' Conversas Com Toshiro is a p sweet nu-Tropicalia album with a weird Japanese cinema theme

Thanks. I saw Caetano live and Gil live this year too (and they were great), but I am out of touch on new stuff.

From Ben Ratliff of the NY Times top 10 list for 2015

4. Ava Rocha “Ava Patrya Yndia Yracema” (avarocha.com) The Brazilian singer Ms. Rocha has inherited the aesthetic breadth and playfulness of the late-1960s Tropicalia movement and connects it with new rock, funk, samba, free improvisation, “serious” composition, and noise; few records this year were as deep and fun.

Modern Brazil - s/d

Tell Me About These Musical Acts from Brazil

Other Brazilian music threads

I want to go there at carnival time...

x-post---Ava Rocha is on Spotify. Am listening now

From Ben Ratliff of the NY Times top 10 list for 2015

4. Ava Rocha “Ava Patrya Yndia Yracema” (avarocha.com) The Brazilian singer Ms. Rocha has inherited the aesthetic breadth and playfulness of the late-1960s Tropicalia movement and connects it with new rock, funk, samba, free improvisation, “serious” composition, and noise; few records this year were as deep and fun.

I like the trad Brazilian samba aspects but am not so crazy about the occasional yelping vocals, improve and noisy aspects. Caetano Veloso pushed the edge rock-wise a bit on a recent album and tour, and I liked the way he did it better.

I feel like there was one more Brazilian (non-metal) album getting love somewhere on ilx this year, but can't recall it or remember where I made a note to myself about it...

Listening to a singer called Geraldo Azevedo right now. His self-titled solo-debut from 1977 is absolutely amazing for fans of the folkier side of mpb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF3-wJJAqI0

So much mpb I don't know (but I am interested). Will check it out

This is so good

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

One thing I'm becoming more and more aware of through watching Portuguese-language career recaps of Brazilian artists on YouTube is the emphasis that is put on "shows" - somewhere closer to, like, the West End or Broadway than Rock concerts, often the ppl talking about them even mention who built the sets and who made the clothes etc. This seems to extend to a lot of hip Tropicália artists, too - I think it's interesting because you rarely ever hear that discussed in English takes on those artists.

Which Brazilian artists?

Well, so far I know Gil Costa and Maria Bethânia did this (the latter once with Chico Buarque, too). Some of the other Tropicália guys too I think but it's difficult to tell because often they just mention a "show" by name and I can't really tell whether that means it's a cabaret-style thing or if it's just that they named a tour or sequence of concerts in the same venue.

*Gal Costa, sorry

This is pretty dope, and remarkable that it sounds like a lost fusion record and a modern dance record at the same time, without tipping too far into cheese in either direction
https://ivanconti.bandcamp.com/album/poison-fruit

nice "disco é cultura" t shirt !!

Modern Brazil - s/d

Papisa album Fenda is kinda dreampop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Rix-AvY1Q

x-post - oh Ivan Conti --Known by most as one third of Azymuth, his career spans far beyond with over half a century’s worth of recordings with the likes of Milton Nascimento, Deodato, Marcos Valle and Jorge Ben.

his first band does a killer rendition of "i want to be your man" from '69

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5TViSUlJ4

https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/brazil/netflixs-emicida-documentary-tells-the-story-of-black-brazilian-culture-56762/?fbclid=IwAR1QT8UZ6HVDpwAoJpZSWMs3STbdTZxaLaBOjI_kpcVzG819IJ-thaqNZw8

Emicida

I always forget about the Modern Brazil thread.

A vinyl reissue of”Dracúla I Love You” by Tuca, discussed a little upthread, has emerged (seems like it’s unofficial but done with decent production values). I am very pleased to have a copy of this one at last.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ZGmDEbvnA

Tuca shows up a lot in the Françoise Hardy autobio I'm reading, they were besties!

Yeah the FH LP that Tuca produced is fantastic.

https://brazilbeatblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/15/favorite-brazilian-albums-of-2020/?fbclid=IwAR2RgmndUV6_OrRNlJfpSIlVwB-fWSPS1PVYhLKodT0zx-1VhS-mBrTIolc

A Brazilian top 20 for 2020 with Carne Doce, Flora Matos and others

A few days ago, Frank Kogan asked for international pop etc. songs from 2008, and I happened to think of Yoñlu, the promising Brazilian teen who suicided in 2006, I think, and a s/t collection came out in '08, reissued by Luaka Bop with a long title, so I quoted to Frank from my Voice round-up of mostly Brazilian LB releases, and he checked it out, said the kid had a "natural gift for melody": indeed, and some compared him to Nick Drake, kinda Velosa at times too, but always with his own bedsit Braziloid 00s cyber-grooves---he and a lot of others are in this archived copy of my Voice original:
https://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/2009/07/luaka-being-and-boppingness.html
Also, he later asked about "postpunk reaching out to the world and some of the world reaching back." So I directed him to
Simon Reynolds' Voice coverage of two remarkable Brazilian postpunketc comps, archived here, w some added videos:
http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2020/06/brazilian-nao-wave-and-postpunk.html

Oh yeah I think Curm linked this juicy trove upthread, one for the headz:
Tell Me About These Musical Acts from Brazil

Subscribe to these YT channels:

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

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

Thank me later

Ugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrazilianRa

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

There.

Dammit! Nevermind.