0014 - Bimba - Caetano Veloso, Seu Jorge, Garoto, Lenine, Hamilton de Holanda, Marco Pereira, Badi Assad, Michel Legrand and Luiz Eça

 

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Every year, Brasília turns itself also into the capital of Brazilian Music, during its International Summer Course. The meeting gathers more than sixty thousand people, among public audience, students and renowned teachers. During its 20th year, the acoustic guitar player Marco Pereira and the mandolin player Hamilton de Holanda met each other. They had a little jam session in the backstage, and from that wonderful experience they decided to record the album Luz das Cordas (Light From The Strings).

Named after Lewis Carrol’s literature, Wonderland is the album recorded by the singer and acoustic guitar player Badi Assad, which brings many questions about the fragile human soul and its illusions. It includes a blues duet with Seu Jorge, our most famous black singer, in a rearrangement from the song “Vacilão”, the popular samba originally recorded by Zeca Pagodinho.

Michel Legrand is an old french pianist and composer who won three Oscars with movies soundtracks. He was a great friend of Luiz Eça, the great pianist, and in 2004 came to Rio de Janeiro to invite Ivan Lins, Francis Hime, Jacques Molerembaum and other great musicians to record the album “Uma Homenagem a Luiz Eça“. Each track is a rare gem to be appreciated.

Caetano Veloso recorded in 1979 the album Cinema Transcedental. We’ll listen to Beleza Pura, one of the greatest hits of this album.

Tracklist:
1 - Lamentos do Morro - Hamilton de Holanda and Marco Pereira (Garoto)
2 - Acredite Ou Não - Badi Assad (Lenine e Bráulio Tavares)
3 - Mestre Bimba - Michel Legrand (Luiz Eça)
4 - Vacilão - Seu Jorge e Badi Assad (Zé Roberto)
5 - Las Abejas - Hamilton de Holanda and Marco Pereira (Agustín Barrios)
6 - Dolphin - Michel Legrand (Luiz Eça)
7 - Beleza Pura - Caetano Veloso

That was all folks! Next week I’ll be back with more brazilian music. Leave your comments, subscribe and tell everyone. Tchau!

Tonny Allen’s “Secret Agent” Remix Contest

Grettings, Everyone!

I decided to take part in this great contest from Tonny Allens new album, called Secret Agent. Since this is taking most of my spare time, there will be no podcast this week. But I promise you to put the remix here in LoungeBR, for everyone’s appreciation. This will be my first public production since I started studying mixing techniques, I am very excited about it. The new edition will be right on the web next week!

The remix contest website is here:

http://tonyallenremixcontest.blogspot.com/

0013 - Candeeiro - Esperanza Spalding, Elomar, Nei Lopes, João Pinheiro, Sade, Vinícius, Baden e Milton

 

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Esperanza Spalding is a brilliant jazz singer and bass player. Besides being one of the youngest hired teachers in Berklee College of Music history, she loves brazilian music.

João Pinheiro is a great singer. He’s recorded an album with Sade’s songs arranged with brazilian rythms. This album has a strange flavor, but I bet you’ll like it. We’ll listen two of its tracks.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Nei Lopes is one of our most intellectual samba composers. He graduated in law school, and he’s also an african culture researcher. Nei Lopes has written several books about the subject, and a song called Justiça Gratuita, in which he overuses many law terms. In Portuguese, of course.

Elomar is born in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia. He was raised in constant contact with northeast nature, the so called Sertão Brasileiro. This, together with the erudite music, is a major influence in his compositions, as we’ll listen here.

Tracklist:

1 - Justiça Gratuita - Nei Lopes
2 - Cavaleiro de São Joaquim - Elomar
3 - Ponta de Areia - Esperanza Spalding (Milton Nascimento and Fernando Brant)

4 - O Violeiro - Elomar
5 - Love Is Stronger Than Pride - João Pinheiro (Sade)
6 - Samba Em Prelúdio - Esperanza Spalding (Baden Powell and Vinícius de Moraes)
7 - Your Love Is King - João Pinheiro (Sade)

That was all folks! Next week I’ll be back with more brazilian music. Leave your comments, subscribe and tell everyone. Tchau!

0012 - Araújo e Lugar - Aldir Blanc, Paulo César Pinheiro, Guinga, Djavan, Leila Pinheiro, Chico Buarque, Ed Motta and Quarteto Maogani

 

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The lyrics writers Aldir Blanc and Paulo César Pinheiro will be presented in some compositions they made with the composer Guinga. These two guys have much more different recorded songs than the vast majority of the other brazilian composers, including the stars Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Djavan and so on. Despite that fact, in my opinion, they truely shine when writing lyrics for Guinga’s songs.

Ed Motta started his career being known as Tim Maia’s nephew, but due to his great voice performances, he could actually manage to become very successful singer.

Leila Pinheiro is also a great singer. She was born in Belém do Pará, capital city of Pará, a state in the North region.

Quarteto Maogani is one of our best acoustic guitar quartet’s. It’s integrated by Paulo Aragão, Marcos Alves, Maurício Marques and Carlos Chaves.

You already know Chico Buarque and Djavan from other editions.

All these artists have recorded Guinga’s songs.

But Guinga, himself, has made an arrangement for O Barquinho, from Roberto Menescal, together with Leila Pinheiro. You’ll listen to all this stuff in this edition.

Tracklist:
1 - Tudo Fora de Lugar - Guinga (Guinga and Aldir Blanc)
2 - O Barquinho - Leila Pinheiro and Guinga (Roberto Menescal and Ronaldo Bôscoli)
3 - Delírio Carioca - Djavan (Guinga and Aldir Blanc)
4 - Ária de Opereta - Ed Motta (Guinga and Aldir Blanc)
5 - Fonte Abandonada - Leila Pinheiro and Quarteto Maogani (Guinga and Paulo César Pinheiro)
6 - Impressionados - Chico Buarque (Guinga and Aldir Blanc)
7 - Porto de Araújo - Guinga (Guinga e Paulo César Pinheiro)

That was all folks! Next Wednesday I’ll be back with more brazilian music. Leave your comments, subscribe and tell everyone. Tchau!

0011 - Berekekê - Ben Jor, Francis, Chico, Tom, Sinatra, Gal, Raphael, Ari, Ney, Geraldo, Paulinho and Hermínio

 

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Jorge Ben Jor is one of the best groove makers here. He was a friend of Tim Maia, Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos since childhood. Jorge and Tim had the same nickname “Babulina” when they were teenagers and started their school bands, because of Roonie Self’s “Bop-A-Lena” song. They were huge fans of rockabilly style.

Francis Hime is a great Bossa Nova composer. You’ll be amazed by Passaredo, in which Chico Buarque was his partner.

Frank Sinatra recorded an album with Tom Jobim’s songs. It is a very pleasing album. Listen to Corcovado, or Quiet Nights, the title in the English lyrics.

Gal Costa is one of the best singers in the world. She released a very sweet and sentimental live album in Trama records, from which I have taken a track to put here.

In “Meu Violão” edition, you listened to Raphael Rabello’s production. Now, enjoy his guitar in No Rancho Fundo, a song from the composer Ari Barroso, with the singer Ney Matogrosso.

Geraldo Azevedo is another composer from Pernambuco, as Capiba, showed in Meu Violão edition. He is a soulful poet, very skilled guitar player and a cool singer. He started learning all by himself at 12, and many years later became a reference with his beautiful songs.

Paulinho da Violais one of our most popular samba composers. Listen to a song made together with Hermínio Bello de Carvalho, a great poet who wrote many of our most popular songs as a parner of astonishing musicians.

Tracklist.
1 - O Namorado da Viúva (The Widow’s Boyfriend) - Jorge Ben Jor
2 - Passaredo - Francis Hime (Francis Hime and Chico Buarque)
3 - Corcovado (Quiet Nights) - Frank Sinatra (Tom Jobim)
4 - Hoje - Gal Costa (Moreno Veloso)
5 - No Rancho Fundo - Ney Matogrosso and Raphael Rabello (Ari Barroso)
6 - Berekekê - Geraldo Azevedo
7 - Timoneiro - Paulinho da Viola (Paulinho da Viola and Hermínio Bello de Carvalho)

That was all folks! Next Wednesday I’ll be back with more brazilian music. Leave your comments, subscribe and tell everyone. Tchau!

0010 - Meu Violão - Capiba, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Raphael Rabello, Baden Powell and Fagner

 

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Capiba’s song are integral part of Pernambuco’s lore. It is a state in the Northeast region. We’ll play two of the songs he made after the famous cities Recife (his hometown) and Olinda (the city with one of the best carnivals in the world). Raphael Rabello’s guitar is featured in both songs. Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso’s voices are also featured. Raphael Rabello was producing this album while he prematurely died, in 1995. In 2002, her sister, the musician Luciana Rabello, finished the beautiful production.

We’ll play also three Baden Powell’s songs. The legendary acoustic guitar player interprets Luiz Gonzaga, Moacir Santos and one of his own songs, the remarkable Berimbau. Great live stuff, recorded in Frankfurt, 1975. He also sings here with his delicate voice.

The singer Raimundo Fagner is well known for his dramacity. Few people know the begining of his great career. I’ll show two from the album Orós, which was produced by the music wizard Hermeto Pascoal in 1977.

Tracklist:
1 - Recife, Cidade Lendária - Chico Buarque’s vocals and Raphael Rabello’s acoustic guitar (Capiba)
2 - Coisa #1 - Baden Powell (Moacir Santos)
3 - Cebola Cortada - Raimundo Fagner and Hermeto Pascoal (Clodô and Petrúcio Maia)
4 - Berimbau - Baden Powell
5 - Olinda, Cidade Eterna - Caetano Veloso and Raphael Rabello (Capiba)
6 - Asa Branca - Baden Powell (Luis Gonzaga and Humberto Teixeira)
7 - Orós - Raimundo Fagner and Hermeto Pascoal (Hermeto Pascoal)

That was all folks! Next Wednesday I’ll be back with more brazilian music. Leave your comments, subscribe and tell everyone. Tchau!

Manu Santos’ Logo

Greetings, folks!

We are developing Manu Santos’ logo. For those who still haven’t read the “WhoAmI” section, here is a short explanation: she’s an excelent singer, and also my beloved wife

If you can help us to improve it, we’ll send you a track of her to-be-released album, for the sake of curiosity. Send your suggestions about the font used, the format, the concept, the colors and everything else you think it is would be useful to take into consideration.

The preliminary versions are here.

Here are some of her videos in Youtube, to inspire the suggestions:

Mulher Jangadeira, Me Deixe Em Paz and Many Other Videos.

Thank you for the help! And have a nice weekend

0009 - Feijoada - Cesar Camargo Mariano, Romero Lubambo, Beth Carvalho and Jovelina Pérola Negra

 

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The pianist Cesar Camargo Mariano and the guitar player Romero Lubambo are two rare musicians. They are featured here in two songs from their album Duo.

Jovelina Pérola Negra was a remarkable black singer. She owns a strong samba voice, maybe the best female reference of Partido Alto samba Style.

Beth Carvalho is known as the Queen of Samba. She’s got a very soft voice. Such title is shared with Clara Nunes, who will be featured in an incoming edition.

Tracklist:
1 - Samba Dobrado - Cesar Camargo Mariano and Romero Lubambo (Djavan)
2 - Saco de Feijão / Sonhando Eu Sou Feliz - Beth Carvalho (Dedezinho de Patos / Arlindo Cruz, Marquinho PQD, Franco)
3 - Feirinha da Pavuna - Jovelina Pérola Negra (Jovelina)
4 - Mr. J - Cesar Camargo Mariano and Romero Lubambo (Romero Lubambo)
5 - Folhas Secas - Beth Carvalho (Nelson Cavaquinho and Guilherme de Brito)
6 - Calango no Morro - Jovelina Pérola Negra
7 - O É, O Que É? - Cesar Camargo Mariano and Romero Lubambo (Cesar C. Mariano, M. Moreira and S. Augusto)

That was all folks! I’ve been out for a while, but I am back now! Next Wednesday I’ll be back with more brazilian music. Leave your comments, subscribe and tell everyone. Tchau!

Holidays

Due to my vacations, I would not be able to publish this week’s podcast, since I am not in my homestudio. Maybe I can change something in the site system. I’ll try to put a webradio online today. See ya!

0008 - Araçá - Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, Dona Cila do Coco and Bola Sete

 

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Bola Sete is a brazilian guitarrist who toured with the famous trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie. We’ll play three songs from one of his albums, Travessuras do Bola.

Dona Cila do Coco is a regional singer. She represents one of our most exciting rythms called Coco. Besides Bossa Nova and Samba, there are many other spectacular rythms to discover in Brazil.

Astrud Gilberto was presented by Stan Getz in his album Getz/Gilberto. She was João Gilberto’s wife and made some unforgettable recordings, like Garota de Ipanema and Água de Beber. She had never performed professionaly before, and she was not so technical, as some can tell from these recordings.

I’d like to thank you guys for joining friend connect in LoungeBR!
@maestrobilly, who inspired me to make this podcast, thank you very much! @p0ps, @nogara, Leandro Brasil, Caê, @manusantos, @rsborges, Luma Rosa and everyone who I am sure is listening! Gustavo, @claudio_cads, @hroenick, Leo Barros, Rodrigo Henrique, Ernani, Serginho and many others. It’s been pretty exciting, and I would not continue this without you!

Tracklist:
1 - Rio de Janeiro - Bola Sete (song from Ary Barroso)
2 - The Girl From Ipanema - João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz (song from Tom Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes, with Norman Gimbel lyrics in English).
3 - Coco do Pneu - Dona Cila do Coco
4 - Ninguém Me Ama - Bola Sete (song from Fernando Lobo and Antônio Maria)
5 - Água de Beber - João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz (song from Tom Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes).
6 - Ai! Que Saudades da Amélia - Bola Sete (song from Ataulfo Alves and Mário Lago)
7 - Coração de Papel - Dona Cila do Coco

That was all, Folks! Next wednesday I’ll be back with more Brazilian music. Leave your comments, subscribe it and tell everyone!

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