Modern Brazil - s/d

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?

anything really, but I guess samba would be the big one, tropicalia would probably be awesome

kind of hard to find one with english subtitles. anyway: https://acasadevidro.com/2016/01/26/70-documentarios-completos-sobre-musica-brasileira-sua-historia-a-casa-de-vidro-com/

have you seen this one?

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

x-post The Guardian on that 2017 Criolo album:

Criolo’s latest album will startle many of his fans. The popular Brazilian rapper and singer is best known for mixing hip-hop with anything from reggae and funk to samba, but on this release, he switches exclusively to samba, with a relaxed set dominated by his often crooned, no-nonsense vocals, with backing provided not by keyboards and programming but by the tiny, guitar-like cavaquinho (played by a member of Pagode da 27, a neighbourhood samba project in São Paulo), along with seven-stringed guitar, percussion and brass. Many of his new songs sound like tuneful old classics, but there is an angry, contemporary edge to the lyrics (although sadly no English translations are provided

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/30/criolo-espiral-de-ilusao-review-seamless-samba-with-conscious-lyrics

I still haven't checked on this new Criolo album but I like him

xp thanks, that should keep me busy for a while!

BBC doc was cool too, wish it was 10 hours long (and questioning the standard narrative a bit more)

2 years ago the wife and I made our first visit to Brazil and loved Carnival in both Bahia/Salvador and Rio. Seeing FB and Instagram postings the last few days has me missing it.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xhQBPzfONlQJ:www.okayafrica.com/how-ile-aiye-changed-salvadors-carnival-forever-and-uplifted-black-people-in-brazil/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Ile Aiye are one of the most important blocos in Carnival in Bahia

http://afropop.org/articles/carnaval-in-recife-brazil-photo-essay

Another part of Brazil celebrates Carnival a bit differently

Carlinhos Brown's Instagram account is a lot of fun. Lots of Bahia carnival footage recently. I still need to check out his 2017 album that Xchuckxx Eddy put in his Village Voice Pazz & Jop top 10

Carlinhos Brown's Semelhantes album from 2017 does not appear to be listed in his English language Wiki bio or his Allmusic.com discography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhptBT_-VI

I feel like this is not the type of music I'm supposed to post itt but maybe someone can point me towards a rolling thread where it fits? In case you find it crass I can say it works perfectly in a club, you're drunk, dancing, and it's very very loud

That’s fine here...It’s modern Brazilian music. Whether Anitta feels she is being exploited is another question.

cool, glad to hear that

has there been negative stories surrounding the song? seems like a pretty big hit

aaw fucks sake I see now it's a Terry Richardson video - why the fuck that guy keeps getting work is beyond me

Elza Soares is back. Deus é Mulher released May 17.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw9ke8zt7XA

Given the delay for UK/US release for A Mulher do Fim do Mundo, the anglophone press will probably praise it in 2020...

Ha. It is on US Spotify now, not sure about other formats.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/more-dead-than-alive-rios-closure-of-legendary-club-reflects-cultural-crisis#img-2

sad story

did he really say "caramba" though

Did he really toss the Lapa neighborhood, favelas, and Sugarloaf Mountain all together in one paragraph

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/07/10/brazilian-experimental-list/

mentions albums such as:

Various Artists
Real Rio: rock, pop, noise and electronic music from Rio de Janeiro

Chinese Cookie Poets-

Opus Dei-

Juçara Marçal & Cadu Tenório

and more

I need to catch up on both the Bandcamp stuff above (though it might be too experimental for my tastes) and this afropop podcast below

http://afropop.org/audio-programs/brazil-at-a-crossroads

Brazil has seen its ups and downs since it became an independent empire in 1822: strongman leaders, military rule, populist democracy and more. In 2018, a politically weary nation faces a stark electoral choice between radically different futures. But whatever was happening in the halls of power, Brazil has always produced powerful, beautiful and ecstatic music, and always known how to party. On Afropop’s 2018 return trip to Brazil, We take a deep dive into the music and evolution of Carnaval in Salvador, Bahia, and dig into new developments in MPB, roots and rock from Pernambuco, Baile funk, new sounds from Amazonia and more from one of the most prolific musical nations on earth.