Modern Brazil - s/d

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.

Stern's music website says folks who buy stuff from them still like Criolo 's ESPIRAL DE ILUSAO from December 2017

Still behind in listening to the above. I guess you all are also.

Still behind on listening to that Bandcamp experimental stuff and the Afropop podcast

Still so far behind in listening to 2018 Brazilian music. Am now listening to Romulo Froes- O Disco das Horas

From 2014, Arrigo Barnabe, Luiz Tatit, & Livia Nestrovski - De Nada Mais a Algo Além. The whole disk is fantastic, but here are a couple faves:

Dora Avante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxaRPeCdxfs

Ano Bom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRB2FFrj9GM

Google translate tells me the following about the above collaboration of age 60 something experimental musicians Barnabe and Tatit with younger vocalist Nestrovski--

After a chance meeting in 2011, at an event to honor Assis Valente and Nelson Cavaquinho, the contemporaries Arrigo Barnabé and Luiz Tatit decided to work together. To give voice to the compositions, the pair chose Lívia Nestrovski

I am not seeing anything more recent by Barnabe and Tatit via a quick internet search, but I see that Nestrovski has done work with Brazilian jazz guitarist Fred Ferreira

https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2017/L/Livia-Nestrovski--Fred-Ferreira/

Via this link I then decided to also investigate Tim Bernardes (whom I can't find any prior ilxor mentions of). According to the link

Leader of the highly praised Brazilian band O Terno, the singer/songwriter, producer and multi-instrumantist Tim Bernardes released his debout solo album in 2017. Claimed by Brazilian icons such as Arnaldo Baptista (Os Mutantes), O Terno have played to large audiences including Primavera Sound (in Spain) and Lollapalooza BR. Tim wrote songs and recorded with brazilian tropicalist legend Tom Zé and worked with artists as Adriano Cintra (CSS), Gorky (Bonde do Rolê) and David Byrne. In his solo album he is responsible for playing, producing and writing the orchestral arrangements. His work has been reviewed by Brazilian newspaper giant O Globo describing "Tim, at 25, already seems to proves himself as the greatest songwriter of his generation”.

Not sure if he's the greatest blah blah blah, but his top tracks on Spotify are tunefully pleasant enough in a retro acoustic Brazilian pop way.

https://talitaavelino.bandcamp.com/album/azul-bahia

Talita Avelino's latest album is on Bandcamp and not Spotify). She's got a sweet bossa voice on her prior 2017 effort. Haven't listened to her 2018 one yet.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/ofert%C3%B3rio-ao-vivo-mw0003181253

The Caetano Veloso 2018 live album Ofertório (Ao Vivo) with his sons Moreno, Zeca, and Tom is pretty nice. They do various songs from his whole career.

http://505indie.com.br/acervo/os-50-melhores-albuns-brasileiros-de-2018/

Elza Soares at 10; Carne Doce's Tonus at #1 (who?); 34. Heavy Baile – Carne de Pescoço is funk carioca; 38 is Ava Rocha

Carne Doce were ok on first listen. Postpunk sorta

Wow, there's a lot to check out in that list.

One I don't see there but which I have been enjoying is Airto Moreira's Aluê (it came out Dec. 2017). Most of it I gather is rerecordings of older material, but it was all new to me.

Liking Sao Paulo indie-electro pop act Labaq

still like it, but no Pitchfork review so no attention outside of Brazil (despite recent short US tour)

this is a spectacularly great song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRnrScSCik

ffffffffresh!

love it!

Anitta has a track on the forthcoming Charlie's Angels sountrack.

...and here it is (released today):

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

X-post — I like reggaeton feel to the song Corrs posted

there's now a bad drake remix of that very song

you are Drake

https://beehy.pe/romulo-froes-o-disco-das-horas-brazil/

I think this is Romulo Froes latest album. It’s from 2018, I still like it. Great melding of trad and avante

https://www.b9.com.br/119034/os-10-melhores-albuns-nacionais-de-2019/

Rapper Emacita on top, followed byy Black Alien, and Eza Soares

Elza

baden powell's "os afrosambas" springs to mind. loving this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLbWNMb8IPo

https://sessa.bandcamp.com/album/grandeza-2

Quarantine sending me some unusual ear-worms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ffMcQWsO4

Only musical instrument is jaw-harp, everything else is voice & body percussion (stomp, clap)

I really love the Bahai-an/NorthEastern scale of the female chorus, sounds Mixolydian i think?

anybody listening to the new Ceu album?

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bump

She's a good not great singer but the production textures and moods she employs are consistently right up my alley