Modern Brazil - s/d

Elza Soares who was mentioned upthread has a Pitchfork best album. Just noticed Sherburne's end of July review

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22173-a-mulher-do-fim-do-mundo-the-woman-at-the-end-of-the-world/

That's the same album curmudgeon and I were praising in 2015.

11 hours ago, Kiko Dinucci, the guitarist on the Soares, released a third album with Metá Metá (which includes Jucara Marcal): MM3

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

Oops, just noticed your byline, curmudgeon.

Anyway, the full Metá Metá album on spotify

https://gomagringa.bandcamp.com/

Just saw Andy Beta's September Pitchfork review of a Goma Gringa label compilation called "desconstrucao" (as opposed to the Portuguese singer who moved to Sao Paulo Eugenia Melo E Castro album of the same name)

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22238-desconstrucao/

the musicians clustered around São Paulo’s current “samba sujo” (dirty samba) scene relish their hometown’s pallor. For those struck by the sound of Elza Soares’ A Mulher do Fim do Mundo from a few months ago, this twelve-track comp culled from the early days of the Goma Gringa Discos label is the next logical step in exploring modern Brazilian music. It features a similar cast of players and musicians from Soares’ album, including saxophonist/arranger Thiago França and Rodrigo Campos.

...Most acts rotate through a stable of players, be they Juçara Marçal, Kiko Dinucci, Marcelo Cabral, Romulo Fróes, Sérgio Machado, Campos, or França, which the press release states “are not a movement, [but] togetherness in motion, always linked from one project to the next.” Almost any selection here contains strands of native samba, post-punk’s rumble, Afrobeat’s driving rhythm, blats of avant-jazz that seem to dilate space, as well as flashbacks to ’60s Tropicália, itself a mutation of Brazilian pop music interacting with outside influences.

Desconstrução gathers tracks from several albums already considered landmarks in Brazilian music of the 21st century: Juçara Marçal’s Encarnado (2014), the trio Metá Metá’s Metá Metá (2011) and MetaL MetaL (2012), Rodrigo Campos’s Bahia Fantástica (2012) and Conversas com Toshiro (2015), Thiago França’s Malagueta, Perus e Bacanaço (2013) and Space Charanga R.A.N. (2015), and Vicente Barreto’s Cambaco (2015).
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released September 19, 2016

I like the more melodic and more rocking tracks over the avante-jazzy ones, on the comp

I wonder if Rosa Passos is going to appear anywhere else in the US, in addition to her December dates in NYC? My quick google search didn't show any others

Saw Seu Jorge on tour, solo with acoustic guitar, doing his David Bowie set. Nice show

http://superselected.com/listen-to-this-the-eclectic-sounds-of-brazilian-artist-mahmundi/

Saw a tweeted reference to this Brazilian electro-soul something or other artist

Mahmundi is a great new artist from Rio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_w-yjlbFgU

Maybe I have to giver her another listen. Her electro-soul seemed nice enough, but didn't wow me on my first listen.

Seems not to be on Spotify but I've found a few tracks from xpost v/a - Desconstrução (label: Goma Gringa). re the Andy Beta review linked above. So far, one most to my personal taste is
Metá Metá's succinctly eventful (rockin') "Rainha Das Cabecas":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9VSyF5HcyI

Their "Obatalá" is an extended breather, maybe most effective in context, but good anyway (if not holding my usually vice-like attention all the way):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9VSyF5HcyI

Those intrigued, as I was, by Beta's mention of Mingus's Cumbia and Jazz Fusion should def check this one by Thiago Franca:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHvjo7ePDZc

The first one I heard (very nice male balladeer in charged setting, but overall not as adventurous as hoped): Rodrigo Campos feat. Criolo - "Ribeirão" (growing on me, now that I know to expect these others!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBpky2XFlOs

Think I might order the album...

After this recommendation about a year ago I bought the Rodrigo Campos lp: Brazilian Music

I really like it, beautiful package also.

Yikes, meant to post this, sorry!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0U4Kx0hhtE

the comp is here:

https://gomagringa.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-descontru-o

Tarping, sorry i forgot about your initial 2013 mention of Mahmundi. Just looking bck on this thread I see that in 2011 I poste an interview excerpt with Romulo Froes where he mentioned Rodrigo Campos.

Starting following some of these folks on Instagram and came across a mention of singer Juliana Perdigao. She has an album on Spotify. Its artsy samba that shifts between pretty and weird.

Thanks so much for linking the whole comp, curm. The two I had first-listen doubts about do indeed totally work in context---
just now tweeted:
V​/​A - DESCONTRUÇÃO: post-everything here & now Brazil, cohesive recombinant momentum*: hairline midnight rainbows just the beginning again
*So, choosing this many tracks by several of the artists (4 by Meta Meta, for inst)? Justified, to put it mildly.

about a year ago I bought the Rodrigo Campos lp: Brazilian Music

I really like it, beautiful package also Thanks, will check that out too! He's amazing on here.

Was just listening to a Campos album on Youtube. Nice stuff.

César Lacerda & Romulo Fróes – O Meu Nome é Qualquer Um (google translate says that means in English): My Name is Anyone

Nice, quiet & occasionally noisy folky yet bossa-samba inflected duo effort. I have liked prior Froes albums. Not familiar with Lacerda, who is a td more indie-folkie and younger than the 40-something Froes.

carlinhos Brown new album this year-- artefireaccua, has more ballads than I rember from him on the past

remember

Album didn't wow me on first listen, but has some good tracks

Elza Soares is getting love on some US and UK album of the year lists.

Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, Dois Amigos: Um Século de Música (Ao Vivo) (Nonesuch) is on the afropop.org stocking stuffers list.

this release is growing on me:

César Lacerda & Romulo Fróes – O Meu Nome é Qualquer Um (google translate says that means in English): My Name is Anyone

I mentioned this elsewhere:

Listened again to Brazilian Carlinhos Brown's latest (on Spotify)-- it's uneven. Some songs start strongly with Carnival like drumming and then change gears; others use guest vocalists including kids; there are ballads that work and some that incorporate too much melodramatic American pop-rock movie flavor

any opinions on fabiano do nascimento's "tempo dos mestres"?

Listening to it for the first time now! Plus I looked at a bio. He's a Los Angeles based Brazilian guitarist who is more jazzy than I like, but that's just my preference. Not bad. Only a few songs in...

Curious about Danilo Brito, Brazilian choro bandleader who is doing some North American dates

Listened to him myself. He plays mandolin and 4 string guitar. His version of choro has he and 3 other stringed instrument players plus a percussionist. It sounds a bit like ragtime. Choro is one of the oldest Brazilian styles and is still around. It melds European classical with waltzes and a bit of African rhythm.

Elza Soares is getting a remix album, plus will be doing gigs in Europe and 2 NYC shows (a RedBull Academy one in May; a Summerstage one in August) [Pitchfork had a little press release type item on this.

What's a couple years to Elza. There's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SWIwW9mg8s

Interesting

Psychelelic soul of sorts, from Sao Paulo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXM3uwklF8

Here's a list of someone's favourite Brazilian albums of the year so far: http://miojoindie.com.br/os-25-melhores-discos-de-2017-ate-agora/

I've dipped in to a couple and it's been mostly offbeat psych-rock so far.

Really enjoying the Criolo album at the moment. On first hearing it's like an up-to-date Cartola.

Enjoying Fabiano do Nascimento's Tempo Dos Mestres so far (just 1.756 tracks in).

I want to listen to this but I also want to watch a Pavlina Tcherneva video on Job Guarantee programs. Soon I will want to go to bed; then wake up, and not want to go to work.

that album sounds good - but what do you mean 1756 tracks? :O

Just being silly about the portion of the album I had heard (not quite two whole songs). There was a decimal.

Probably all to airy for me right now. There was a cover of a familiar song but I can't remember what it was (let alone the title). Possibly something by Baden Powell.

Ha I didn't look up anything about the Fabiano do Nascimento album, didn't even realise that my favourite song ("O Tempo") is uh inspired by one of my favourite Gilberto Gil songs ("Marginalia II"). Some background here for the non-clued-in: http://www.afropop.org/34735/tempo-dos-mestres/

listened to that Nascimento record a few times now, it's gorgeous

any other of his I should check out?

Guess I should listen again. Listened once and wasn't wowed

Liked some of it but not all on another listen.

Now listening to avante/artsy and Tropicalia inspired Negro Leo on his 2017 bandcmp release Action Lekking. He released several efforts in 2017. Chicago Reader writer Peter Margasak put Action in his top 40 for the year.

https://negroleo.bandcamp.com/album/action-lekking

Also saw on Instagram video of Cortejo Afro, a nice Salvador percussion bloco.

Cortejo Afro was formed and made its Carnival debut on July 2, 1998 in the streets of Pirajá, a community in Salvador. The Bloco is rooted in the spiritual guidance and principles of an established Candomblé house in Salvador, Ilê Axé Oyá, and Cortejo Afro’s artistic design and Afrocentric creative expression was founded by artist Alberto Pitta. Concerned about the predominance of Axé music, Cortejo Afro was formed in an attempt to reestablish the African identity of Carnival. http://www.batalawashington.com/founding-of-cortejo-afro/

Ava Rocha is doing 5 gigs in the US--Starting in Philadelphia on the 12th and then doing 3 NYC area gigs and a DC one (a free one at the Kennedy center that will be video=streamed live on the 17th, 6 to 7 pm est)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/travel/brazil-all-female-drums-bahia-banda-dida.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Related

Banda Dida...It's Carnival time in Brazil

The last 3 Tom Ze albums are ace. I'm partial to 2014's A Dog in the Milky Way out of the three, but 2012's Tropicalia Trash Logic and 2016's Cançoes Eróticas De Ninar (his most straightforward set of pop tunes in a long time) are great. Can't think of another pop artist in his 80s who's doing such vital work.

Didn't realize he was that old. His "pop" used to be pretty out there, but I haven't listened in a long time.

I'm liking this 2017 Criolo album Espiral de Ilusão

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e193_zPMWy4

anyone recommend brazilian music documentaries?

but which kind of Brazilian music?