Brazilian Music

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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.

Just recently heard about and am listening to a big Brazilian rock act called Os Paralamas do Sucesso. So far liking what I am hearing.

This one is a real earworm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL1Wy6zbJ2U

Maybe other people don’t need rock music in Portuguese from Brazil. Maybe I didn’t know I needed it until now.

Their reggae/ska stuff is pretty good too.

Marisa Monte just showed up on one of the reggae tracks! The circle is unbroken.

The rhythm section even brought their reggae magic to this Jorge Benjor track.

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

last night my kid says to me - he's 18 - "i want to play you some songs". and he plays me these!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk1iTOWzh6c

kids today...

he's way into brazil. i must tip my hat to spotify. they do find some pretty obscure nooks and crannies for people to dig into.

ed lincoln and milton banana are big names for bossa nova in general.

paralamas has great records and are pretty huge there, yes.
these are my faves, but there's great stuff up in every record up until 2000 I think

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selvagem%3F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severino_(album) <- this one has linton kwesi johnson, tom zé, fito paez and egberto gismonti

one of my fav videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQWR45AhAQw

and the big hit from Selvagem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfi9K97ulmE the high life guitar is <3

Trailer for an upcoming animated documentary on Tenório Junior, samba-jazz pianist who died mysteriously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaY6Wj54Mlw

one of my fav videos

Guess I must have missed them when they performed at Central Park Summerstage in 2010, same as I missed Marisa Monte last Sunday.

https://musicabrasileira.org/os-paralamas-do-sucesso-summerstage/

Whole thing is here, for now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMoJ_9al3xU

She shows up after about an hour and a half.