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Now here’s a group that got it. Blessed by the astounding voice of Ney Matogrosso (who eerily sounds a lot like Gal Costa), Secos e Mojados ran with what she started. The one-two punch of “Sangue Latino” and “O Vira” off their first self-titled album released in 1973, thoroughly embraced the Brazilian-ness of their background…
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Gal Costa, what a threat! Immensely talented, tall, beautiful, and sexy; her vision was always to push the boundaries of what Brazilians could find acceptable. Take a look at India’s cover, its barely NSFW, don’t even look at back of the cover which goes even further. However, there’s a method for her forthrightness. Before her…
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Full disclosure, I know I’ve been writing tracts that stretch much longer than most people have the time for. Know that, a lot of this information I add not out of a hate towards concise prose, but because a lot of this info you’ll probably won’t ever know unless you can understand Portuguese, and I…
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I’m going to have a hard time describing this next Brazilian album. It’s Erasmo Carlos’s “Sonhos e Memorias 1941-1972”. Remember all those great quasi-psychedelic tracks from the Beach Boys like “All I Wanna Do” or “Feel Flows”, or J.J. Cale’s grooving “Call Me the Breeze”, early Laurel Canyon Rock, or even the more current sound…
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Language, Man, what a barrier. Personally, this is what has always created issues for me (and I imagine other people). Since a young age you have the language that you speak at home fluently, its the one your parents use to converse with you, the one you know by heart. Then, you go to school…
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If anything shows the true diversity of Brazilian music its Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges’ “Clube da Esquina”, released in 1972. Another bonafide classic this album highlights the growth of influential music that Brazil could produce outside of its normal region of invention, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo. Hailing from the Minas Gerais region,…
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Now this album, will always bar none, remain at the top of any list of best Brazilian albums ever made. Chico Buarque’s “Construção”, released in 1971, just bleeds and demonstrates Brazil exactly as it is, warts and all. Chico had always been around from the early 60s, from a young age he knew what kind…
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Remember how I said yesterday to pay attention to some of the peripheral characters during the Tropicalia documentaries? Well, today I’m going to bring a little bit of light into the first person to push Brazilian music beyond this era. Edu Lobo, on the day of the great festival of Brazilian music where Tropicalia had…
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The US men’s national team plays Ghana today in the World Cup. One of the things I love about the World Cup is that countries can’t just draft better players to compete. You have to work with what you have. At times, you may not have players that earn the most money in the world,…
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Some may classify what I’m going to highlight today as psychedelic or weird, I refuse to do so. Sometimes, we forget that some of the most outre music, the one that challenges our orthodoxy, has always existed not in the outre monde but in the clear, visible world and has always been the actual current…
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