Brazilian Music

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.

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.

Cool.

My friend who did go to see Marisa Monte and likes Paralamas also told me about a band called something like Os Gitanos or Os Ciganos but I can’t figure out quite what she was talking about.

Oh, Titans

Titãs

yeah, the Novidade video is great

a friend emailed me this track a few daya ago asking what i know about the artist (not much, but it's quite a find)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf4EURr-ssQ

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

sounds like an awesome kid

same as I missed Marisa Monte last Sunday.

!!

Surprised that I missed or that you missed?

Guess it’s time for me to also investigate Legião Urbana. See also this thread: Sexual Life of the Savage vs. Não Wave

Also the shorter Nao Wave - Brazilian Post Punk

surprised i didn't know about it, but then i haven't been paying much attention.

I hear you.

Feel like there should be some sort of alarm whenever she comes up here.

One year I saw a million posters ahead of time so had ample time to buy a Beacon Theater ticket.

i can't remember the last time i saw a poster for something. you would think living next to a huge university, someone might put up a poster occasionally but nope.

if i subscribed to an email list or checked brooklyn vegan i'd end up going to a lot more shows than i have time or money for. like every time someone who made a record i like decades ago rolls through i'd shell out the $40, which is totally the wrong approach. it's much more fun to just go see new artists for the price of a beer, or random free shows in the summer.

Going to shows, especially rock shows, after a certain age, is kind of a mixed proposition.