Quote JayBrown
I've actually been putting on the Brazillian pandora station to go to sleep to lately , but I just end up laying awake and giving songs the thumbs up. Definitely gonna have work more of it into my collection , and am open to anymore suggestions . I am really feeling the Elis Regina by the way .
That's a good thing JB!
I really pleased to hear that.I got tons of suggestions,you just gotta tell me what you flow with best.(slow,fast,etc)Because Brazilian music has many genres like here in the states.It ranges from the subtle to the exhorborant as far as rhythms and beats are employed.Yes, Elis was very special.
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Good thread, big Brazilian music fan here, got seriously caught up after studying Brazilian and Argentinian music in college under a great Professor.
Good deal there! I was enthralled with the music and culture since grade school due to we had a few Brazilian/American students that lived in the area and went to the local schools.Back in the day when I was a heavy digger,I picked up a ton of joints from there.I didn't pick up on the language comprehensively until I had the opportunity in recent years with the job to go to the North (Para) and The NorthEast (Bahia) and was able to be there for an extended periods of time.
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Even though its been some years since I started listening I'm still only dipping my toes in..that said, when going to a record store Brazilian records are always near the top of the list. It's a great music to listen to given the really unique time signatures (coming from the standpoint of most US listeners), the rhythmic foundations are so pervasive through much of the Brazilian popular music, its sometimes crazy to really listen to a music driven so differently.
Absolutely,the timing is kept with the drum instead of the bass.
In the North they play alot of Forro and Sertanejo music which is kind of like Country music meets Salsa & Merengue.In the Northeast, you will find more African style rhythms.
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While I'm a bossa fan for sure, sometimes the genre dipped too far into the realm of polished production and arrangement styles for me...in any case its completely to be expected given the crazy popularity and intermingling of bossa and jazz in the early 60's. It's such a huge huge world of music, going digging in Brazil is a dream of mine (I'll check that one off in the next five years I hope!). Samba, bossa, Tropicalia, MPB, jazz etc.
Yes, also they are a big fan of American popular music.It's nothing to hear 80s synth pop on the local radio stations like it's 1984 or something.Tripped me out.Everything is over priced in the touristy Rio and Sao Paulo,
but in the North and Northeast if you ever get a chance to go to Belem, Salvador,Recife,etc..
you can get good deals at the local markets.Wax is still prevalent there.Also the currency
(The Real) is 2$ to 1 US $ right now.So you'll make out great.
Only the shipping cost are very high.
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Anybody completely new to Brazilian music (and culture as a whole for that matter) might be interested in Orfeu Negro [Black Orpheus] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/). Fantastic film where Carnaval and the associated samba (previously Candomble) rhythms are fundamental. Huge movie at the time and a great introduction to the country's music.
Yes,indeed..
Black Orpheus is considered one of the greatest movies of all time in foreign language films.
It caught the oscar in that category back in 1959.I have seen it many times,beautiful story but terrible ending.It reminded me of an old movie with Joseph Cotton and Jennifer Jones.
I can't remember the title of it,but it'll come to me.Yes, it's good you mentioned that...
fam there is nothing more raw than Candombe rhythms, Samba's father if you will.
Today you can still hear it in Montevideo, Uruguay in the streets.
I haven't had the chance to see it yet in person,but I hope one day to have the chance.
Here is a video of a impromtu candombe get down in the streets of Montevideo.
You'll recognize that they are speaking Spanish in the background,
because they are south of Brazil in Uruguay,Whereas the langauge in Brazil is predominently Portuguese.
Just thought I would throw this in concerning Elis Regina's performance of Chico Buarque
song Atras Da Porta.In case your wondering how She ended up in the moment.
She was going through a love triangle with band mates similar to Stevie Nicks with Fleetwood Mac.
So She ended up living the words of this particular song.
Here is what She is singing in the Brazilian portuguese and then the English translation.
ATRAS DA PORTA
Quando olhaste bem nos olhos meus
E o teu olhar era de adeus
Juro que não acreditei Eu te estranhei
Me debrucei sobre teu corpo E duvidei
E me arrastei E te arranhei
E me agarrei nos teus cabelos
Nos teus pelos Teu pijama
Nos teus pés Ao pé da cama
Sem carinho, sem coberta No tapete atrás da porta
Reclamei baixinho Dei pra maldizer o nosso lar
Pra sujar teu nome, te humilhar
E me vingar a qualquer preço
Te adorando pelo avesso
Pra mostrar que ainda sou tua
Só pra provar que 'inda sou tua
BEHIND THE DOOR
When you looked deeply into my eyes
And your look was one of goodbye
I swear I didn't believe I didn't recognized you
I bent over your body and I doubted
And I crawled and I scratched you
And I grasped at your hair
At your hair At your pijamas
At your feet By the bed
Without care, no cover At the rug behind the door
I complained very softly I started to curse our home
To stain your name, to humiliate you
And revenge myself at any cost
Adoring you by the reverse
To show you I'm yours
Just to prove that still I'm yours
Yo, Brazilian music fans must peep this recent (last couple years I guess) reissue (unless you're really down and got a OG, in which case you should probably sell/give me that). Very dope. I grabbed this in Paris earlier this year actually because I didn't wanna pony up buying it online and paying for shipping, when I saw it in a record store in Paris I figured I was saving money in some odd way...
Either way, really dope jazz, soul, funk shit within the Brazilian idiom.
