Listening to Jards Macale self titled album from 1972. Their percussion/bass combo has tons of locked tight grooves, almost as if Brazilians had been listening to tons of the funkier side of Can/Neu/Faust. Much of the acoustic guitar work is similar to the amazing solo work on Marcos Valle's "Escape", if that speaks to you. One of the best Brazilian records to come my way in a long time, one of their tracks is on the new Soul Jazz comp, but man this record is worth having on it's own. The track on the Soul Jazz is nowhere near their best.
― oscar, Sunday, 3 February 2008 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I will have to check that out. Meanwhile the Suunday February 3rd NY Times had an article about women getting ready for Carnival: “Carnival is all about vanity, but it has changed,” said Ms. Vidal, 27. “It used to exalt whoever could dance samba the best. Now it is more about who looks more glamorous.”
Mr. Parcias, the personal trainer in Leblon, knows that only too well. Last week, some 40 people attended his one-hour class. They were of all ages, but were mostly young women in form-fitting bodysuits. They seemed utterly focused, staring ahead at the mirror and never uttering a complaint.
The Carnival classes, held five days a week, begin five weeks before the event. “Some people get here before Carnival and they are desperate to start training after a full year where they’ve done almost no training,” he said. “Some people go overboard, but of course we discourage that.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 February 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i got the 2nd brazil classics comp on luaka bop and some of it is SO fucking good. the track by alcione i think has become one of my favourite songs ever. trying to find more by her but its either fucking impossible or really expensive. but i love her voice.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 6 June 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
This is great http://www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/aa_imagesbrazil/aa_comps/98_bresil.gif
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 6 June 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
$125 bucks for the Samba Obamba Ball Inauguaration Ball in DC club Rumberos an upscale and spacious LatinAmerican art-bar and restaurant convenientlylocated in the heart of Columbia Heights in the old Gala Theater building
food, open bar and proceeds go to Brazilian and DC good causes but that's alot (even if it's cheaper than official events)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 January 2009 05:37 (fifteen years ago) link
― Transatlantic Dementia (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 9 January 2009 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/42018/diogo-nogueira-at-artisphere/
This guy's not bad
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/obituaries/aldir-blanc-mendes-dead.htm
Aldir Blanc samba lyricist RIP
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 September 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
Aldir Blanc in Brazil with a guitarist named João Bosco who wrote the music, he wrote the lyrics for “O Bêbado e a Equilibrista” (“The Drunk and the Tightrope Walker”), written in 1978, was ostensibly about a Charlie Chaplin film."....subtly criticized Brazil’s government and called for the peaceful return of political refugees. Sung soulfully by Elis Regina, it became a kind of amnesty anthem and a popular call for the reinstitution of democracy.....his songs reflecting the hardscrabble lives and language of the working-class neighborhoods where he lived, according to Hugo Sukman, the author of “Parallel Stories — 50 Years of Brazilian Music” (2011
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 September 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/obituaries/aldir-blanc-mendes-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 September 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
one of the greatest.
a few weeks later, the approved emergency aid for culture was named "Aldir Blanc Law".
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 00:23 (three years ago) link
Pick up anything called Samba de Enredo if you're looking for a bit of raw. It's the Carnaval stuff with full batucada.― Daniel
otm
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
This Alcione album rules, highly recommended:https://www.discogs.com/Alcione-A-Voz-Do-Samba/master/564264
― brimstead, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
so I have a question: I recently rediscovered this South African house jam from 2016, and I love it, but... the chant/melody (and not just that) is totally samba and sounds very familiar as well (unless it's just the memory from the first times I heard it lol) - it must be copied or sampled from something Brazilian, no? anybody have any ideas? there's no clues at all in the comments in the various YouTubes for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hQwvKjjU7wDJ Clock ft. Chicco Twala • Saba Kufa
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 September 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
bumpstill hoping someone can help me out here
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 September 2020 07:25 (three years ago) link
bumping again
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 September 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
really cool song! it does sound sort of familiar in a Carnival / Jorge Ben way, but I'm not sure it's a direct lift
― rob, Thursday, 24 September 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
I’ll take your word for it! by “Carnival” do you mean Brazilian carnaval music in general or does it refer to a specific record?
― Regard the timeless piano balladeeress! (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah sorry just carnaval in general. That said, I am not an expert in Brazilian music beyond the "big names" so I might be way off here!
― rob, Thursday, 24 September 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
All I can tell you is that chant is not in Portuguese - but it may have been translated by the artist, or the presumable Brazilian original might be using a different language.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 25 September 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link
The main lyrics, such as they are (just two lines), are in Zulu. The intertwining background vocal line is possibly in Shona (that is, some YouTube commenter was speculating that it might be). The most samba-like part is the “oh lé lé lé, oh-lé-lé-lé” chant, which sounds wordless to me.Of course, any of these parts might have a Brazilian source, but I’m thinking of that chant in particular. So the mystery continues (if there is one at all), but I’ve been listening to a lot of Jorge Ben as a result of this, so this query already has had at least one happy outcome!
― Regard the timeless piano balladeeress! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 10:07 (three years ago) link
Diogo Nogueira, who I mentioned in 2012 for his dc area gig is back in Dc itself this Friday September 15 at Karma. He’s good but maybe not great
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:18 (six months ago) link