Oh shit!
Yeah!
I really like this and must apologize for totally breaking the rules format structure and form. Once i got into the music i just knew this was going to be All about the letter B for BRAZIL and a time in music that i was to young to have experienced and now lives in my imagination. A time and place that was real and not real and so strong it overwhelms me when i go there. There are some words in Portuguese for it that don't exist in English.
Once i went to A it was over for me as far as any order or linearity. I had intended this to make sense and follow the alphabet but how can any rational thought exist when the Hurricane arrives?
Elis
Arrastao
Elis e Jair Dois Na Bossa 1965
Again
And to be there? I hope you will actually watch this just to see them together
C? D? or O?
Canto de Ossanha, Deixa
Maybe this can be F?
Casa Forte with Edu Lobo 1969
So it seems this is a post about mostly about Elis Regina
I never know where all this is going to go
inuitil Paisagem
Ok maybe a little backtracking here
The beginning of something new?
Luis Bonfa 1959
and yes i have lost all track of the alphabet ; )
"play and make the sun rise!"
Baden Powell 1970 Manha de Carnaval
Baden Powell Canto de Ossanha 1968
Well this was mess. But the music is worth your time
Barely touched on so much.
Duuuuuuuude this post is beyond awesome and a shame for me, as a brazilian, for listening to a bunch of foreign music instead of our own!
I would never imagine you knew all those songs and I'm quite amazed and curious to know more about your story.
How did you find those gems?
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Sorry it was so messy. I can't concentrate on all the markup stuff and blogging aspect. I just noticed one video is missing that i thought put up... here's the missing one. One of my absolute favorite things i've ever seen!
I was wondering if you knew of these people? Haha, it was a little sneaky of me. It's a long tale how i came across this but i remember hearing Bossa Nova as a little kid. Probably Astrud Gilberto singing Girl From Ipanema. It was really popular all over the world in the early 60's. Frank Sinatra did Bossa Nova songs too. Fast forward a bit and i had seen a few movies from books by the writer Jorge Amado. Probably Gabriela... I got one of his books at a used book store and ended up reading all his stories. Maybe i have that part backward haha. I loved his stories so much i went out looking for all the Brazilian music.
I heard about Orfeo Negro the movie and and realized that was were Manha De Carnaval was from. That movie blew my mind and then i looked for luis Bonfa and that led to Baden Powell. I was lucky that Youtube came along and i could find all these artists. And all the music was getting re- released on cd's. Jobim was a big one right? The writer of Garota de Ipanema.
Then i found Elis... and was swept away by the Hurricane, That was one of her nicknames. The first post here is her when she was 19 years old i think and she completely blew away everyone and the rest is history from there . I can't even listen to her without being infinitely happy and sad all at once. I can't Imagine what it was like in Brazil when she died. I read over 100,000 people came out to her funeral procession.
There was so much going on in Brazil then with art and architecture and music i was fascinated by it all
There's so many more like Gal Costa, Caetano Velosa and the Stan Getz Bossa Nova albums are really great too.
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Absolutely, I do reckon all the names, I just don't listen... shame on me!
They were all gigantic and inovative! I have no idea what passed in Brazil in the 60's but so much going on, in 64 democracy fell down and the military took the chair. Back then and, even worst, during the 70's all those artists could not express a single thing. All their music had to go through censorchip, and then if approved they could release it. Because of that they had to find crazy ways to express their political visions through creative music and amazing song writing.
This song Calice by Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil is one example of that.
If you'd like to check some more modern brazilian musicians you could listen to Cazuza and Renato Russo, both unfortunately passed away during the 80's, however, they both are considered incredible song writters.
I haven't read the book Gabriela, but it's very famous, pirctured in many soap operas, series, etc.
I'm amazed that you know so much about the brazilian culture!
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Here's a few of Amado's books. I know so little of Brazil really. I have never even been there. Most of what i might know came from these books and movies and listening to the music. Looking at photo's... surfing shots and videos. it's just a big beautiful amazing scary wonderful hectic fantasy in my head mostly i guess
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Tieta! Duuuuude I remember that one being a soap opera.
I'm sure you know more about brazilian culture then I do, I'm a bastard tha listens to blues/rock mostly. I think you'd freak out in Rio, the beaches, the waves, the malevolence.
There are some bars there where musicians concentrate, incredible 7 string players. Have you ever heard of Yamandu Costa, hes an acoustic guitar player, fantastic.
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I haven't heard of him, i will check it out.
When i think of the scary stuff it's like this movie! Whew!
I really like the architecture and the buildings and all the places i think of taking photo's.
The skimboarders from here have been going to Sununga and i have seen some amazing videos of waves there and another spot with super gnarly waves. Itacoatiara. There's lots more beach's i would like to see. That and the amazon river bore wave! I freak on things like malaria and all that. I watched that Herzog movie where they were in the amazon. It was about making the movie. it scared the crap out of me! Haha
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ahahhhah that movie is hilarious! I've never been inside a favela. In 2016 I went to Rio for the Olympics and I went to Botafogo to see some Capoeira - one of the oldest Capoeira groups is there. All went smoth, however, the army was on the streets.
I don't know, still have to go there to check for myself how it is. I've heard of loads of foreigners that buy a cheap brick house with the best views on some favelas. There is violence of course, but some places it's possible to enter.
Those waves on the Amazon are called Pororoca, it's possible to surf for tons of time without stopping.
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I see the favelas in movies and they just look so incredible. The winding stairways twisting and turning and all the rooftops. Everything stacked up with chase scenes... I think i remember one in a Hulk movie... The views look wild!
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Playing guitar with a cigarette between your fingers. It looks weird now.
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It does. It's even weird in a way back then for a player who uses all 5 fingers to pick with. He was so good it didn't seem to matter... a touch of extreme coolness confidence and some other words i can't quite think of. Baden Powell and his friends... i wish i could have been around them. The whole era of music and everything going on. He's really the only classical style player i like to listen to very much. His playing is so powerful and raw at times... he could do the classical styles and he's so much more than that. I bet a lot of purists were shocked by him and he probably ran with it while knocking them on their asses
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Oh God, i just watched that video again and it just knocks me out. The beginning is so beautiful and sad and happy and then the rest of the band comes in and it's just crazy, the wildness and the smiles of that one guy. : ) i have a hard time writing in the first place and this i can't begin to describe. Imagine the first time anyone heard them do this? I picture a bunch of old fuddie duddies with their wigs on fire LOL
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Did you get a chance to listen to the rest of them?
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At this moment I'm in my 'shop' playing the 'shop-playlist'. That kind of music that offends nobody except the one who is forced to listen to it all day :)
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Jobim and Bossa Nova might be nice in the shop. it's pretty calming
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Did you know a lot a guitar player are customers at the nail salons, to get acrylic nails
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