Brazilian Music

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.

za za zey za

so i'm here and, uh... did na boca do sol go viral on tik tok or something??

i've been to a million free shows here and never seen a line like this for anything ever

zoomers were climbing onto forklifts in the street to watch Arthur Verocai LOL

https://i.ibb.co/X2zprw7/IMG-20230811-212017385-2.jpg

You wanted a field report, well, by 6:30 the line stretched 3 and a half blocks. I think at that point, most of us understood we weren't getting in, but had decided on standing by to listen from the street. Verocai came on around 8:30 after an interminable DJ set and multiple fawning introductions.

Renditions were note perfect, as you'd expect. They played the album out of sequence, starting with the instrumentals- this postponed the revelation that, for a guy who must be pushing 80, his voice hasn't really aged. It certainly crossed my mind that I might as well be listening to the record from the comfort of home.

But in this context the beauty and depth of the music stood out. So did its anonymity. Makes perfect sense as a crate digger's holy grail, an expertly composed and arranged record that vibes and just needs someone to put a face on it. My friend compared it to library music along similar lines- super OTM. Reaffirmed what I've always felt about the LP (that it's really, really good; that it's not quite the masterpiece it thinks it is)

Presumably some influencer blew this up on social media. I don't know if Adrian Younge is famous enough to account for the popularity of this event on his own or not. Very cool to see Brazilian music from the 70's *fucking finally* getting this kind of love in America!!! Of course it's for the album that conforms the most neatly to an auteur mentality of the Great Gothic Genius all too prevalent in the anglosphere...

had several thoughts yesterday

• the crowd seemed very hip/fashionable – no idea where that came from tbh
• loved to hear lots of classics played before during the dj set – baden powell, tim maia, bethania...
• loved the concert a lot despite a bunch of stuff hahah
• • kinda felt that sometimes drums/bass and some of brass went more jammy/heavy handed than the record. there's a vibe that is hard to achieve again on most of recorded brazilian music between 71 and 76
• • hated the way vocals were handed. I think the live mix is partly to blame – a very clean sound, which made it hard for vocals... they were almost struggling to get it out sometimes. the vocals (as most stuff again from the era) will be these lowkey melodies, hummed and harmonized. maybe some reverb would've helped here, idk
• • at the same time, the female singer was too hammy (she's also a former actress in a very, very bad sketch comedy show in Brazil, can't even believe that). like a very bad caricature of what emotion sounds like, we like to call this som de barzinho in Brazil

all in all thought, it was really cool to see and hear him so revered. his attitude through the concert was also a mix of cool/humble that was <3. and it was kinda cool to hear him attempt to do a small rap at some point hahaha.

ps. also got choked up by the homage the jazz is dead folks did for joão donato beforehand. amazing.

also wtf is people clapping randomly before the music is even finished? makes no sense

this footage appeared as part of the Donato homage – amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lbZ0kcR_48

some of brass went more jammy/heavy handed than the record.

i noticed that too. just personally, the performance didn't deviate enough from the record for my liking, but then when it did it wasn't great.

ps. also got choked up by the homage the jazz is dead folks did for joão donato beforehand. amazing.

oh i missed that!! (took a walk)

Was just thinking that, despite not being as canonical as Elis & Tom, the album Elis & Toots is still top shelf.