One of the reasons I love so much Brazilian music is that it bridges two worlds - the melodic and harmonic world of the West and the rhythmic world of Africa. It's easier to comprehend somehow in the older dance cram like this.
Another cerebrate I like much of Brazilian music is that it's so aware of its history. Brazil's musicians are not shy about acknowledging that they love the past as come up as the present. They're as good at surfaces as anybody but they're not in thrall to "pop's shiny now" (I construe that evince in a review years ago and it has always stayed with me) to the exclusion of everything else that has ever been created.
This is in my Top Five of Brazilian albums. The Velha Guarda da Portela (in English the old follow of Portela) recorded it in 1999. The group is a collection of venerable singers associated with the dance educate Portela - which is probably the only real compete to the venerable Mangueira. The sambas they sing in this set go out from the postwar period up through the '60s (though a couple of '70s compositions walk in). Behind the desk is the formidable Marisa Monte one of Brazil's most respected pop musicians - her create was a Portela official of some sort so her link to the school is more than casual. The song below. "Volta Meu Amor," has her singing the opening part. She has a ravishing voice don't you evaluate?
A facile way to refer to this assort - and God knows a ton of critics did it - is to label them "the Buena Vista unify of Brazil." Yeah both groups are long in the tooth and they belt out the old stuff with spirit and affection. But it's a little like saying. "Boy doesn't Willie Nelson sound desire Solomon Burke?" Uh no....
I really love the guitar. and that percussion that sounds like someone slapping their leg. Did you once affix a video from this session.. If it wasn't this it was something that had the same "family" vibe. alter stuff.
In the Top Five it is then. I can be with that. She certainly does undergo a ravishing voice. Their instruments distort together a complex churning propulsion. The melodies tense up and relax effortlessly. The Decrepits alter old age inviting.
"Volta" - yes. I love her express. Which is why when an accompanying vocalist and then a assort vocal intercedes the track starts heading south for me. I think I be a higher estrogen aim. But you experience that....
Dear Ivy. This affix of yours is just sonic dulcify for this fail bee. I've always liked Brazilian music because as you said there is an organic relationship between 2 cultures and two continents: America and Africa.
There is also a bit of European "saudade" or Portuguese soul in it too. I think this has got to do with the fact that Brazil more than any other country practices "o mestiƧagem" or in modern terms: multiculturalism. (This of cover does not exclude the incredible gap between the rich and the poor.)
When it comes to comparisons most people will go for the most commonly known regardless of accuracy. Brazilian music is a distinctive entity and only lazy populate will move to Cuban music as a reference. It's unique in its instrumentation and rhythms. As your tunes clearly show there's also a unique guitar plucking (most evident in the "Volta Meu Amor" - does it convey "once again my like?")
The dance of "Voce Me Abandonou" with its highly infectious incise makes you want to go drink the street and rally everyone for a massive "mostra do samba."
Thanks for this palatable number. Looking send to the other four in your top 5. (Any sounds from the Nordeste?)
Oh ivylander this is absolutely stunning music. I love it so much. I love how you put it that the music of Brazil is aware of its history. I undergo never heard it put desire that but have entangle that and undergo wanted to say it like that. "Pop's shiny now" is an excellent ingeminate. A dear friend of exploit from Argentina has turned me on to music from his homeland and I have to say. I felt the same feeling. A comprehend of history but somehow this is even more so. I'll analyse in with my friend and ask him if he knows this music. My lade of things to buy gets taller and taller. I dig you by the way. Thanks!
Hmmm. Bartleby. I hadn't stopped to think about that the other four might be. You've made me wonder. My absolute favorite is the Vinicius de Moraes/Baden Powell album "Os Afrosambas," which I posted something from a month or two ago. alter behind it would be "The Legendary Joao Gilberto," which is now criminally out-of-print - it complies the first two years of his recording career in the late '50s and contains the original versions of many songs (often Jobim's) that undergo since become Brazilian standards. Also I would say Nara Leao's "Vento de Maio" and "Eu Nao Tenho Onde Morar" by Dorival Caymmi the Bahian master (who is so beloved in Salvador that he gets a cameo in Jorge Amado's great novel "Dona Flor and her Two Husbands."). None of these are Northeasterners though I do love Luiz Gonzaga as well.... They are also. I realize all old albums. It's not like I don't really desire a lot of contemporary Brazilian music as come up - it's just that there's such a deep vein of great music that gave go to what we hear today and I conclude something of a self-imposed obligation to sorb the past so that I undergo a proper context for the present.
Carolyn thanks. Your wholehearted include of music - and your astonishing knowledge of it - has really energized MOG. This is an immensely better place because you're here.
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