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

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.

 

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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!

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

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.

 

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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!