Any 2015 albums or songs people especially liked?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
Haven't really followed along, but Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil acoustic was concert of the year for me!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
Rodrigo Campos' Conversas Com Toshiro is a p sweet nu-Tropicalia album with a weird Japanese cinema theme
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Friday, 4 December 2015 02:36 (eight years ago) link
Thanks. I saw Caetano live and Gil live this year too (and they were great), but I am out of touch on new stuff.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 December 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 December 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
Modern Brazil - s/d
Tell Me About These Musical Acts from Brazil
Other Brazilian music threads
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 December 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
I want to go there at carnival time...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 December 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
x-post---Ava Rocha is on Spotify. Am listening now
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 December 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 December 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
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...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 December 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
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
― Frederik B, Sunday, 10 July 2016 11:34 (seven years ago) link
So much mpb I don't know (but I am interested). Will check it out
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 July 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
This is so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suQXaFFaoyA
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 29 November 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Which Brazilian artists?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 November 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 30 November 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
*Gal Costa, sorry
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 30 November 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
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
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
nice "disco é cultura" t shirt !!
― budo jeru, Thursday, 12 December 2019 04:49 (four years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 December 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
Papisa album Fenda is kinda dreampop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Rix-AvY1Q
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 December 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 December 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
his first band does a killer rendition of "i want to be your man" from '69
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5TViSUlJ4
― budo jeru, Friday, 13 December 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/brazil/netflixs-emicida-documentary-tells-the-story-of-black-brazilian-culture-56762/?fbclid=IwAR1QT8UZ6HVDpwAoJpZSWMs3STbdTZxaLaBOjI_kpcVzG819IJ-thaqNZw8
Emicida
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link
I always forget about the Modern Brazil thread.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link
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
― Tim, Sunday, 24 January 2021 10:50 (three years ago) link
Tuca shows up a lot in the Françoise Hardy autobio I'm reading, they were besties!
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 January 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
Yeah the FH LP that Tuca produced is fantastic.
― Tim, Monday, 25 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 01:59 (three years ago) link
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.htmlAlso, he later asked about "postpunk reaching out to the world and some of the world reaching back." So I directed him toSimon 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
― dow, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 03:29 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah I think Curm linked this juicy trove upthread, one for the headz:Tell Me About These Musical Acts from Brazil
― dow, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 03:49 (three years ago) link
Subscribe to these YT channels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TonicoManel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrazilianRa
Thank me later
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 06:26 (three years ago) link
Ughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrazilianRa
There.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 06:28 (three years ago) link
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.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:01 (nine months ago) link
This one is a real earworm.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL1Wy6zbJ2U
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:10 (nine months ago) link
Maybe other people don’t need rock music in Portuguese from Brazil. Maybe I didn’t know I needed it until now.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:41 (nine months ago) link
Their reggae/ska stuff is pretty good too.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:53 (nine months ago) link
Marisa Monte just showed up on one of the reggae tracks! The circle is unbroken.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 July 2023 18:05 (nine months ago) link
The rhythm section even brought their reggae magic to this Jorge Benjor track.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQJMKocrELk
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 July 2023 18:29 (nine months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Saturday, 8 July 2023 20:06 (nine months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Saturday, 8 July 2023 20:07 (nine months ago) link
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
― fpsa, Sunday, 9 July 2023 04:38 (nine months ago) link
Trailer for an upcoming animated documentary on Tenório Junior, samba-jazz pianist who died mysteriously:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaY6Wj54Mlw
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 9 July 2023 09:59 (nine months ago) link
one of my fav videos
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:20 (nine months ago) link
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/
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 17:42 (nine months ago) link
Whole thing is here, for now:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMoJ_9al3xU
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 17:50 (nine months ago) link
She shows up after about an hour and a half.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 17:58 (nine months ago) link
melo do marinheiro is great as well. but what I love about the Novidade clip is the glimpse of working life in Rio, in specific that ferry trip (which I think is the Niterói-Rio ferry). How people react, dance with the band... a rock band was a very novel idea to most people in the 80s. the guy kicking the ferry station in the beginning.
― fpsa, Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:02 (nine months ago) link
Cool.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:13 (nine months ago) link