Brazilian Music

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.

Think maybe I am taking this Brazilian thing too far, right now listening to Kid Abelha.

hahaha they have good songs! but then I guess it becomes more interesting if you're Brazillian

marisa monte played on NJ and me and my wife went to see. it was great. at some points it went full beatlemania with the level of screaming! her bass player played with Novos Baianos

titãs are a diff beast. cabeça dinossauro is the classic one, but it's more of a punk-ish sound. funnily enough, one of the titãs main songwriters and singers left the band and at one point, had a "supergroup" with marisa monte – they had a big hit in BR with a song that lifts a lot from Family Affair from Sly.

legião is the bigger band of all of this. they had such a huge following. songs so big they got covered by samba bands, selling million of records in a country that didn't even was fully of dictatorship nor had a lot going on economically, is kinda amazing. the following is also for the lyrics. they started more punk-ish, post punk - comsat angels, joy division. then it gets more folky, jangly as time goes by. love many songs by them, specially the first 3 (the 3rd record actually has the earliest songs they ever wrote). every now and then I just get obsessed by this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkM5e04vjzE por enquanto. since 94 prob.

80s bands there have so many microscenes and stuff to check outside of the big names you mentioned so far, you can really go deep!

(sorry for the bad syntax above)

I can also just post some youtube videos tomorrow of cool stuff

Cool, thanks!

I saw Marisa Monte in Maryland near Washington DC in 2022. Mostly good show plus she had impressive visuals on a screen behind her for nearly every song. I said "mostly" as some of her catalogue of songs don't wow me. She was just back in this area as well recently, but I didn't go this time

TIL that 1/3 of Tribalistas was in Titãs.

Some surprise Paralamas content here: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=1675484&boardid=77&threadid=80292

Oh right, sorry

what's that link?

Private sub-borad.

Just talking about photographers taking pictures of some Brazilian celebs instead of Paralamas at summer stage.

I forgot to mention earlier this year I saw Djavan. Djavan emphasized all the Nascimento like aspects in his songs that I like and was pretty good at his suburban Washington DC show. An ilx search shows some skepticism of him over the years, but I think live he outweighed my concerns re jazz fusion cliches and too much schmaltz

Djavan wrote some great songs, which is mostly how I know him.

But I came to say, oh hey, partly as a result of this thread I did a Paralamas song at karaoke last night, which felt really good even though nobody was from Brazil so it was unfamiliar to them.

Also, just some good stuff from Nenhum de Nós on an 80s Brazilian Rock playlist which also has some of the usual suspects mentioned recently.

Listening to Legião Urbana now, “Que país é este.”

nenhum de nós is pretty bad, man, lay off the pipe.

that's the 3rd legião record. try the first and second one and fourth

loving your posts, fpsa