Thursday, February 24, 2005
Sabadabada
Courtesy of Sabadabada
Via rec.music.brazilian, a tip from DaveVH, who in turn credits Boing Boing:
A range of wild Brazilian downloads from the ’60s and ’70s at Sabadabada.
The music’s good, the covers are beautifully kitsch.
This website is the work of a collector named Peter, who specializes in bossa nova, balanço, and samba vinyl records from the 1960s.
There’s a section devoted to cover art arranged by label and, of course, there’s the fabulous music page, where you’ll not only see cover art but be able to download mp3s of numerous tracks.
A real find (and the music can be just as beautifully kitsch as the covers).
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
G.R.B.C. Batucada Carioca
Grande barulho em Toronto—
Maninho Costa whips the gringos into shape.
Photo: John Struthers
Joelson Costa, better known as Maninho, came to Toronto in 2001 with Filó Machado and has since played there with Jovino Santos Neto and organized an Associação do Samba and a bloco carnavalesco called Batucada Carioca. The bloco’s bateria currently numbers twenty members.
Maninho’s drumming credentials run in the family; he’s the nephew of the famed Mestre Odilon, diretor de bateria of G.R.E.S. Acadêmicos do Grande Rio and co-author of the book O Batuque Carioca.
Maninho himself is no slouch and knows how to command a bateria with due authority. The occasion for the gathering seen above was Batucada Carioca’s final party of the 2005 carnaval. The bloco is now getting ready for its summer activities.
See more photos of Batucada Carioca.
For additional information, visit Batucada Carioca’s website. Get in touch with Maninho by e-mail or by phone: (416) 820-9285.
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11:58
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Discos do Brasil
Maria Luiza Kfouri returns with
her redesigned Discografia Brasileira.
Brazilian music lovers and scholars were chagrined when Maria Luiza Kfouri’s obligatory Discografia Brasileira, which had been housed on the Itaú bank’s website, went off the air a couple of years ago.
Maria Luiza has not been sitting idle since then, and now she’s launched the sequel: Discos do Brasil. The handsome new format enables you to search by disc, song, performer, guest artist, arranger, musician, instrument, composer, and co-authors.
Searches bring forth successive pop-up windows where you can zero in on individual tracks and listen to 30 seconds of music. Each individual track title is linked to other recordings of the same song, which you can view and hear on a separate pop-up window. Album cover images are shown when available.
Your only job is to keep track of the proliferating pop-up windows and close those that you don’t need, or else it will soon become a case of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
At the moment, the Discos do Brasil database offers information on 4,700 discs, 1,300 singers, 30,000 songs, 12,000 musicians, 1,800 arrangers, and 8,000 songwriters.
There’s also a quiz if you want to test your musical knowledge. Check out the “Você Sabe?” section.
Brava, Maria Luiza Kfouri!
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10:03
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Gilberto Gil at UC Berkeley
The minister lectures on utopia and cultural policy
and ends with song.
Photo courtesy of UC Berkeley
On Thursday, 17 February, an overwhelmingly Brazilian audience eager to hear Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil lecture on “Contemporary Brazilian Culture” swarmed onto the University of California campus and filled Wheeler Hall to capacity.
Gil came as the guest of UC’s Center for Latin American Studies , and the true topic of his talk turned out to be the economic dimension of culture and the corresponding policies of the Lula Government, including universalization of education, culture, and health. The word “Utopia” was invoked numerous times.
Gil outlined his Pontos de Cultura initiative, intended to stimulate cultural production and access in disadvantaged areas. The stated goals for this program are 250 Cultural Points to be in place by 2004, 600 in 2005, and 1,000 in 2006, with the government supporting each Cultural Point with 25,000 reais.
The results, said Gil, will be unpredictable and perhaps surprising. “What happens when you release a spring, free a bird, open the gates of a dam? We’ll soon see.”
Having said that, he picked up his guitar and sang Chico Buarque’s “A Rita.” Joan Baez, who was sitting in the front row, got up on stage and danced. Next came a question & answer session, punctuated by a few more songs—Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” Caetano Veloso’s “Desde que o samba é samba” (audience request), and his own “Aquele Abraço.”
See photos and watch a complete Webcast of the event.
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11:36
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Foreign dissemination
of Brazilian Music
Are you involved? Participate in the survey.
The Brazilian Ministry of Culture is sponsoring a Working Group on Foreign Dissemination of Brazilian Music coordinated by the songwriter and keyboardist Felipe Radicetti.
The Working Group is collecting information, data, and opinions from musicians, composers, interpreters, producers, sponsors active in the music field, music distributors, journalists, writers, teachers, promoters, and consumers of Brazilian Music (popular or classic).
The information obtained through the survey will help map the current situation of Brazilian Music outside Brazil and its potential. That information will orient the formulation of a proposal for a Brazilian public policy on music dissemination in foreign countries, to be presented to Ministry of Culture of Brazil for consideration.
The results of the survey will be posted on the Web.
If you are involved with Brazilian music in any capacity, you are invited to participate in the survey. Download the English, Portuguese, or Spanish version, and return the survey to the e-mail address provided therein.
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