The many musics from Brazil

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by felixa, Nov 17, 2017.

  1. felixa

    felixa Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    I'm not sure if the title above is correct in English, but my idea is to post music from Brazil. The intention is to give an overview of the different types of music coming from Brazil, from regional songs to urban pop, from underground to classics, from intelectual and to not so much. I will give a brief description of the composer/performer and the circumstances when the music was composed or released.

    I'll start from a song from the golden era of Brazilian songwriting in Brazil, the 60s and 70s, by coincidence (or not) a time when the military dictatorship that started in 1964 was at the peak of its powers in Brazil. At the end of the sixties a number of music festivals were held in Sao Paulo and Rio, that introduced many young composers that would become great names of the Brazilian musical scenario until today.

    The first one that I selected was a song drenched in political tones, recorded in the manner of the music from the interior of Brazil. Very different from the cool beach scene of Bossa Nova. The song was composed by Geraldo Vandre and Theo de Barros and recorded by Jair Rodrigues (who also performed it in a festival in Sao Paulo in 1966, in which it took the first prize).

    The link to the song in Spotify is the following: Disparada

    You can also see in this YouTube video the electricity in the air during Jair Rodrigues' performance at the final of the festival in 1966:


    I hope you enjoy. I intend to come back frequently with more and more music from Brazil.

    I certainly welcome comments, criticisms and questions.
     
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  2. Chemguy

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    A noble, welcome pursuit!
     
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  3. felixa

    felixa Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Os Mutantes

    In 1970 the Sao Paulo-based band Os Mutantes issued their third album, A Divina Comédia or Ando Meio Desligado. You'll find here the title song "Ando Meio Desligado": Ando Meio Desligado

    Heavily influenced by the psychedelic movement, the band was formed by the brothers Arnaldo and Sergio Baptista and singer Rita Lee. Before this album they were very close to the Tropicalia movement in Brazil, let by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil (more about them in the future. This will was their first album more focused in the rock language.

    For any one interested in psychedelic rock Os Mutantes is essencial. It is worth exploring their work in the streaming services.
     
  4. Zoot Marimba

    Zoot Marimba And I’m The Critic Of The Group

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    This is a really cool idea,man.
     
  5. Zoot Marimba

    Zoot Marimba And I’m The Critic Of The Group

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    I know Sepultura comes from Brazil
     
  6. pdenny

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    My favorite singer of pop songs whether in Spanish or his native Portuguese is Roberto Carlos. Many incredible tracks written with Erasmo Carlos (no relation). Practically everything he released from 1970-77 still gives me chills.

     
  7. felixa

    felixa Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Roberto Carlos is a great composer/singer, although in recent years he became somehow a caricature of himself.
     
  8. felixa

    felixa Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Chorinho, or choro, is a musical genre that has its origin in the 19th century in Rio de Janeiro. It is an instrumental genre, with lots of improvisation and virtuosity by small groups of musicians, playing acoustic string and wind instructions, accompanied by percussion. Because of the usual lack of lyrics and the improvisation and virtuosistic style, it is sometimes compared to jazz.

    In the example below we have Paulo Moura, a wonderful clarinetist and sax player.

     
  9. pdenny

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    He has a very large catalog with which to do so...his golden era was 69-80 imo.
     
  10. felixa

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    Pdenny, here you can hear a great Roberto Carlos song. It's an example of the time when the influence of US music was starting to become more evident in Brazil.

     
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  11. The great Mick Karn did his own version of A Distância:

     
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  12. vitorbastos123

    vitorbastos123 Forum Resident

    Great thread!!
     
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  13. southamorican

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    I think it is worth pointing out that these so-called festivals were actually Sanremo-style TV song contests. They were immensely popular and, as felixa rightly put it, introduced important songwriters (and singers) to a large TV audience.

    The 1967 edition was arguably the most important one, and can be considered a landmark of Brazilian music. There is a great documentary about it, Uma Noite em 67 (2010). Up until then, electric guitars were bizarrely frowned upon by Brazilian music purists, but the successful performances by Gilberto Gil (with Os Mutantes) and Caetano Veloso (with Argentine rock group Beat Boys) put that silliness to an end, while planting the first seeds of the Tropicália movement.

     
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  14. felixa

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    Milton Nascimento is a highly influential singer/composer in Brazil and abroad.

    During the 1970s Milton and his friends recorded an exceptional album called Clube da Esquina (something like "The corner's gang"). The album is fabulous and introduced a number of musicians who would themselves become very successful, such as, for instance, Toninho Horta, Wagner Tito and Lo Borges.

    A beautiful track in this album is San Vicente, in which you can hear Milton's great voice and a wonderful instrumental arrangement. Here it goes:



    I highly recommend that you listen to the whole album:

    Clube Da Esquina
     
  15. felixa

    felixa Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Milton Nascimento is a highly influential singer/composer in Brazil and abroad.

    During the 1970s Milton and his friends recorded an exceptional album called Clube da Esquina (something like "The sidewalk gang"). The album is fabulous and introduced a number of musicians who would themselves become very successful, such as, for instance, Toninho Horta, Wagner Tito and Lo Borges.

    A beautiful track in this album is San Vicente, in which you can hear Milton's great voice and a wonderful instrumental arrangement. Here it goes:



    I highly recommend that you listen to the whole album:

    Clube Da Esquina
     
  16. Mr Bass

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    I think there is some awareness of Os Mutantes here because this is a specialist music forum. Although probably many people just know their first album. As you suggest their three main albums while they share some similarities each have their own vibe. I would say the second album "Mutantes" is the most uncompromising.

    What I find interesting is that Rita Lee turned out to have the most substantial and consistent post Os Mutantes career. She went more into a hard rock style in the 70s with Tutti Fruitti after a few Euro pop attempts. Then she wandered into disco and modern pop but I still hear more rock elements to these albums than most others in the genre. The Baptista brothers went more prog rock but were too derivative of Yes even though there are worthy aspects to their prog albums.

    I only liked Roberto Carlos' early 60s pop rock albums. I could never adjust to his 70s and later stylings.
     
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  17. southamorican

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    Have you heard Arnaldo's first solo album, Loki? It's a masterpiece.

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  18. Mr Bass

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    It's been years but it was not my cup of tea. That style of singing requires a stronger voice to carry it through for my taste and I am not a fan of piano heavy arrangements. I much prefer solo piano to mixing piano with other instruments other than string bass and drums. But I didn't regard it as a bad album just not to my taste. Maybe I should re-listen.
     
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  19. thebunk

    thebunk Senior Member

    Great thread, hoping to see more updates. I will add as well but don’t want to hijack it ;)
     
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  20. Rick Robson

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    As.a brasilian it's kind of compelling for me to share some of my favourites here. Here we go:

    Marco Antônio Araújo was perhaps one of the greatest in bringing classical elements into his exhilarating compositions.

     
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  21. Rick Robson

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    Another favourite that deserves mention here is Zé Ramalho, albeit not featuring the Bossa Nova glamour and sophistication nor the typical brasilian swing , but plenty of a seamlessly spirituous music appeal (well, I have to say - he's my favourite composer over Caetano Veloso or even Milton Nascimento!)

     
  22. Rick Robson

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    In fact, as aforementioned, the sixties movement called 'Tropicalia' was indeed founded by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, a movement that also included Gal Costa at its beginnings. It was an ambitious progressist artistic project which took profit of ambiguous lyrics to mock the dictatorship regime that reigned in my country back then. And it's fair to say that Tropicalia incorporated the first psychedelic rock influences into the Brasilian pop music, an influence that added extra colors to a music already dominated by samba, latin and afro-reggae folk influences.)
    Honestly I must admit that I'm not a fan of Caetano Veloso's music, but his initial career still sounds interesting to me , and I enjoy a lot his '67 release 'Caetano Veloso' (s/t), especially the tracks "Alegria Alegria", "Tropicalia" and the one below:

     
  23. Max Florian

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    Great, great thread idea, obrigado Felixa.
    I’m sitting in a Croatian pastry café right now, where the Albanian owners speak among themselves in what sounds to me like Brazilian Portuguese - go figure!
    I have so much favorite Brazilian records, mostly if not only thanks to the fabulous music blogs from the last decade such as Loronix/Zecalouro.
    More than bossa, though I revere Jobim and listen to a lot of electro-bossa etc (Bebel Gilberto, Arto Lindsay etc), I love samba and the pre-bossa genres where the African or Amazonian influence is more prominent. I’m also a sucker for Western records influenced by that percussive trait of Brazilian music (e.g. D. Byrne and P. Simon in the 90s, Dead Can Dance’s Spiritchaser, Arto Lindsay). That doesn’t begin to cover it really but there, I’m going to consult this thread often with curiosity.
     
  24. LarsO

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    Tom & Elis - Aguas de Marco
     
  25. Sanguinus

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    IF YOU ARE A FALSE, DON'T ENTRY!
     
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