Sivuca has composed so many beautiful songs about our Northeast region. You will know three songs, from the album Cabelo de Milho, which was recorded in 1980. You’ll find two great singers in this album: Fagner, who was featured here with Hermeto Pascoal, in Meu Violão edition, and Clara Nunes, our female samba super star, who wasn’t presented yet. A big surprise for the future.
João Gilberto doesn’t need any introduction. Born in Bahia, he is considered to be the father of Bossa Nova. Let’s listen to two less known songs from the album which brought our most known rythm in the world to life, Chega de Saudade, 1958.
Tom Jobim is a huge idol in Brazil and United States too, since he’s lived there for many years and recorded many albuns in USA studios. We’ll listen two samples from the tiny album Matita Perê, from 1973.
Tracklist:
1 – Lobo Bobo – João Gilberto (Carlos Lyra/ Ronaldo Bôscoli)
2 – Matita Perê – Tom Jobim
3 – No Tempo dos Quintais – Fagner and Sivuca (Sivuca and Paulinho Tapajós)
4 – Energia – Sivuca (Sivuca and Glória Gadelha)
5 – Hô-Bá-lá-lá – João Gilberto
6 – Estrela Guia – Clara Nunes and Sivuca (Sivuca and Paulo César Pinheiro)
7 – Águas de Março – Tom Jobim (Tom Jobim)
That was all folks! I’d like to thank Robert (@WineExpo) for the great conversation we had these days about Brazilian music. Next week I’ll be back with more! Leave your comments, subscribe and tell everyone. Tchau!
Posted: October 21st, 2009 at 10:26am by Rodrigo Santiago
I know I’ve been away from you guys. That’s because I am setting some personal systems on in order to get easier management of my communication chanels and websites. I tried to broadcast João Pinheiro’s concert live from Rival Theater in Rio last Wednesday, but I just couldn’t get any mobile signal in there. That was a shame, it was a great show. Anyway, next Friday I am going to try it again, in Sala Baden Powell Theater, Copacabana, where João himself and my beloved wife Manu Santos are going to perform together. It is a Chico Buarque and Maria Bethânia’s remake from their beautiful concert in the 70’s. Stay tuned!
Meanwhile, here is a video from wed’s show. It was taped by Sharkmar, a great friend and awesome figure that record almost every new artists in Rio. He’s almost two THOUSAND music hd videos in his channel at Youtube:
My best wishes for you all!
Posted: August 15th, 2009 at 12:48am by Rodrigo Santiago
We took part in João Pinheiro’s show this Saturday – an intimate and beautiful show called Entre Nós (Between Us). He is already featured in Candeeiro edition – that guy who recorded Sade’s songs with brazilian rythms. Two tracks from his album are featured as part of the soundtrack of “Caras e Bocas” soap opera in Globo TV, the biggest TV channel in Brazil.
Watch some of the videos here. I took part in many of them, mostly playing pandeiro:
Juízo Final, from the composer Nelson Cavaquinho, with the guest Manu Santos:
Os Presentes / Todo Mundo Sabe, with the special guest Eliana Printes. She’s the composer of this cheerful samba, together with her husband, the guitar player Adonay Pereira.
No Ordinary Love, from Sade.
Palavra, an interesting piece of song played with a typewritter as a percussion instrument. The song is followed by Olha a Baiana and Filó, in which I also took part. The three songs are João’s compositions.
The guitar player is André Agra, owner of Saladesom records, one of the local and most succeeded labels in Rio de Janeiro, who is also producing the first of Manu Santos albums, to be released by the end of the year.
Special thanks to our friends Marcos and Aninha, who recorded everything with an amazing video quality, and with whom we shared delicious slices of pizza right after this show.
Posted: July 27th, 2009 at 5:14pm by Rodrigo Santiago
Cartola is a huge symbol of our samba. He’s considered by many critics as the best samba composer of the history.
Chick Corea is maybe the best jazz electric pianist. Do you know the difference between a keyboard and an electric piano? Most people here in Brazil don’t distinguish one from another. Everything is called “keyboard” here, because most keyboards can play electric piano samples. But there is a sensitive difference. Listen to these jazzy samba tracks I got here, with the amazing brazilian singer Flora Purim, from the 1973 album, Light As a Feather.
Joyce and Toninho Horta recorded an album with Jobim’s songs, called “Sem Você” (Without You). Joyce is a tradicional Bossa Nova singer, whereas Toninho Horta is a world class guitar player.
Tracklist:
1 – Quem Me Vê Sorrindo – Cartola
2 – Light As A Feather – Chick Corea and Flora Purim
3 – Ela É Carioca – Joyce and Toninho Horta (Tom Jobim e Vinícius de Moraes)
4 – You’re Everything – Chick Corea and Flora Purim
5 – Correnteza – Joyce and Toninho Horta (Tom Jobim and Luiz Bonfá)
6 – 500 Miles High – Chick Corea and Flora Purim
7 – Acontece – Cartola
That was all folks! Next week I’ll be back with more brazilian music. Leave your comments, subscribe and tell everyone. Tchau!
Posted: July 8th, 2009 at 9:33am by Rodrigo Santiago
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!
Posted: July 1st, 2009 at 8:23am by Rodrigo Santiago
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/
Posted: June 25th, 2009 at 1:00pm by Rodrigo Santiago
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.
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!
Posted: June 18th, 2009 at 12:09pm by Rodrigo Santiago
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!
Posted: June 10th, 2009 at 9:51am by Rodrigo Santiago
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!
Posted: June 5th, 2009 at 12:02pm by Rodrigo Santiago
Sivuca has composed so many beautiful songs about our Northeast region. You will know three songs, from the album Cabelo de Milho, which was recorded in 1980. You’ll find two great singers in this album: Fagner, who was featured here with Hermeto Pascoal, in Meu Violão edition, and Clara Nunes, our female samba super star, who wasn’t presented yet. A big surprise for the future.
João Gilberto doesn’t need any introduction. Born in Bahia, he is considered to be the father of Bossa Nova. Let’s listen to two less known songs from the album which brought our most known rythm in the world to life, Chega de Saudade, 1958.
Tom Jobim is a huge idol in Brazil and United States too, since he’s lived there for many years and recorded many albuns in USA studios. We’ll listen two samples from the tiny album Matita Perê, from 1973.
LoungeBR 0016 - Matita Perê [28:19m]: 
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.
