Tell Me About These Musical Acts from Brazil

it does. did you tab to 'next' in the search results?

Ian J0hnson's boss at Accademy put that Obsession comp together. it's pretty fab

ooh just got a copy of a nice vinyl reissue of the first all-bossa Caetano Veloso album, haven't listened yet but am excited

also what is this Som Imaginarios referred to on the other Tropicalia threads...?

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, July 8, 2008 3:30 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

that recent reissue is totally worth getting. A more americanized sound than a lot of the other acts mentioned on this thread, but there's still some new sounding shit in there. You can probably get it from a blog.

thx - I grabbed a self-titled 1970 album that I was really digging, main standout was this beauty called "Sabado"...?

this one

yeah that's the one

Sound Factory reminding me a lot of Secos and Molhados (vocals not QUITE as insane tho)

also gots:
Som Tres "Toboga"
Rubinho e Mauro Assumpcao "Perfeitamenta, Justamente Quando Chegui" (is that "perfect, just the way you are"...?) This one is great, opening track is total country-rock

got tired of this Sound Factory album real quick. The Assumpcao one is great tho, I highly recommend that one.

To ask a kind of OT question, is it characteristic for Brazilian LPs from the sixties to have a sleeve that's basically just a 24" by 12" piece of cardboard folded in half around the record, with the front and back cover images being glued on (no spine, no attachment along the top and bottom)? I bought a copy of Nara Leão's Rogerio Duprat album on eBay and was a little surprised to be getting more of a cloak than a jacket around the record.

Rio’s Marcio Local extends the legacies of influences like Jorge Ben and Banda Black Rio, standing at the crossroads of two great traditions in modern Brazilian music, Afro-Brazilian samba and’70’s soul, to create an undeniably cool and funky ode to political change and carioca life

Appearing in NYC in January

Ronnie Von recorded a psychedelic album during the 60s and is often associated with the Jovem Guarda movement. Nowadays he presents a corny talk show on Brazilian TV. kind of cult trash.

http://www.vinyl.tree.nom.br/ronnievon.gif

Thurs. 1-8- Rio de Janeiro’s Marcio Local from 6 p.m. to 7p.m. at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage for free---Local combines R&B, soul, and funk with samba, bossa nova, and other Brazilian sounds, as heard on “Samba sem nenhum problema” on which he celebrates a Rio de Janeiro steeped in Afro-Brazilian traditions, yet constantly devouring and reinventing new sounds and styles.

Also on Thursday January 8th

Garotas Suecas ­ from Sao Paulo Brazil

DJ Neville Chamberlain/Brazilian Rhythms ­ from Washington DC (but he has actually been to Brazil) at 9p.m. at Comet Ping Pong, 5037 Connecticut Ave NW, Comet Ping Pong will be hosting Garotas Suecas, from Sao Paulo Brazil, as they come to Washington, DC on their first ever USA tour. Freakbeat/Tropicalia is alive and well and well in Sao Paulo.

Can someone tell me about this gnomic looking dude called Sivuca?

http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:zGrd75VfiwgO0M:http://www.kaufman-center.org/mch/images/artists/masters/hermetopascoal.jpg

seen many pictures of that dude, never heard him

I see there is now a deluxe vinyl reissue of that Liverpool album making the rounds

I gather he's famous for both his accordion skills as much as his production. This one in particular sounds great.

that's actually hermeto pascoal, who in fairness shares many of sivuca's wizardly attributes

sure this has been posted before but here's a good excuse

Gah. I did a google image search, and that was the best of the lot. But pretty crazy likeness, aye.

http://bp2.blogger.com/_c8wX6bHrA4A/R8MKT9AmxSI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/JXLirr5pMrU/s1600-h/sivuca+foto2.JPG

OMG @ this track

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

random youtube find. lovely stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv3lwGtJPT0

Maucha Adnet & Helio Alves

singer and pianist duo

Helio is a really good piano player and Maucha is good too, she sang with Jobim when she was quite young and I believe is now married to the drummer Duduka da Fonseca. Why? Are they playing near you?

There is picture of them here: http://www.congahead.com/legacy/On_The_Scene/duduka/duduka.html

Thanks. They're gonna be in D.C. at Blues Alley for $25 (plus a drink minimum) on Monday November 11th

Think you're gonna go?

No, although it sounds like it would be nice show. But I will probably see Jorge Ben at the Howard Theatre on the 16th

Yeah, you should definitely go see Jorge Ben. I should too.

You can always see Maucha and/or Helio and/or Duduka and/or Romero Lubambo at Dizzy's the next time you come to New York.

Ahh, that's right.

Wouldn't be surprised if you they played in DC reasonably often.

Could be, and they were just never on my radar. Although,it's Brazilian music month it seems in DC. Blues Alley just had Trio De Paz reviewed here in the W. Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/at-blues-alley-trio-da-paz-showcases-the-lovely-complexities-of-brazilian-jazz/2013/11/07/61d1e802-4760-11e3-95a9-3f15b5618ba8_story.html

and trumpeter Claudio Roditi is gonna be there as well as Maucha and Helio. The Jorge Ben gig at the Howard is pricey ($65), but I liked him back in 2004 live.

Ha, I meant to mention Nilson.

I'm just learning who those folks are

There is good Brazilian guitar player with an English name, Richard Miller, who used to live in DC, I think he was getting a PhD in music education, but now he lives here.

Oh yeah, he used to play everywhere around here

Maybe not everywhere, but I know the name

Boogarins, from Brazil, where in the 1960’s psychedelia was also tropicalia, with its rebellious underpinnings. They had the sweet melodic convolutions of tropicalia, some playfully unconventional meters and, at times, some of the modal hypnosis of San Francisco bands like the Jefferson Airplane

Jon Pareles in NY Times blog re group doing a free 8 pm Monday/tonight in-store at Other Music in NYC; and playing in Brooklyn Tuesday

bump

Juçara Marçal of the 80s Vanguarda Paulista has a pretty interesting album Encarnado out. The parts I've heard bit like Sonic Youth playing MPB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdu6uwpbJZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjyACV-faHs

So, Brazilian records ca. 1969-73 are filled with amazing "sunshine pop", Free Design style harmonies, for example this soap opera soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppmrjMgoRG0

And this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfSMsBiarz4

I can't find any evidence of a direct influence, but intriguingly, the Azymuth guys turn out to be session players on two albums by "Projecto 3" (which is of course a Portuguese version of the name of Enoch Light's label). Surely a coincidence? The title track seems to me to have been ripped of by Tortoise on 'the Bridge at Iguazu Falls', maybe that title is a hint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obLyHq3gbE

Brazilian soap opera soundtracks from the 70's often function as great samplers of quality tracks from the era.

Julio Medaglia > Rogerio Duprat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN0t4axPcKg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJTsk5fO_I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIh7DNI0BT8

That last one is completely nuts