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It's a wonder to me that New Orleans musicians - and the many styles, from jazz to funk, that they've played a major role in creating - don't actively collaborate with their Brazilian counterparts. There is hope, however: New Orleans based funk and brass band, Galactic , has taken a small step in the Brazil-Louisiana connection with their cover of the Sergio Mendes classic "Magalenha." Coming off their upcoming album, "Carnivale Electricos," which will be released, appropriately, on Mardi Gras (yet another thing the two regions seem to appreciate more than the rest of the world), it's a chaotic, [...]
As a heavy metal fan, Krisiun has always been a quandary for me. You see, I like Krisiun. I like their music. I like the concept behind the band's music. Until 2009's The Southern Storm , I never actually liked any of their albums proper. Nevertheless, I've always appreciated the band's existence. Heavy metal needs a band like Krisiun, a band dedicated to playing death metal as if the genre's artistic palette froze after Covenant was released. The Southern Storm changed everything. Prior to Storm , a Krisiun song was a [...]
As if 2012 wasn't starting with enough good music, we've just had this baby drop into the inbox. 'Brazil' was the highlight of Luke Abbot's 'Holkham Drones' album with James Holden describing it as "one of the most joyously utopian records ever made". So what do you do when you have a bona-fide classic on your hands? Slow it down of course! The spasm-inducing 165 BPM speed has now been dropped to a dancefloor friendly 128 BPM so there's no more speeding up the track your playing to mix it in. Unless you play gabba. In which [...]
João Gilberto - Eu vim da Bahia* Photo by Luciana Batista
Jorge Ben was my first introduction to Brazilian music - someone put on his "best of" album The Definitive Collection so they could point out how much "Taj Mahal" sounded like Rod Stewart's hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" I'd never heard the Stewart song before, so when I did hear it for the first time later in my life I was astounded, much as Jorge Ben must have been in 1978, at the similarities. A judge eventually ruled that the song did, in fact, constitute plagiarism, as it had, in the judge's words, "been derived" from Jorge [...]
Merry Christmas! We wouldn't dream of posting today without presents, so voila! A playlist and two wonderful tracks for this festive day. The first comes to you from the northern European Yuletide tradition, courtesy of the King's Singers, with their heart-melting performance of "Wexford Carol." The carol, a traditional Irish hymn originating from County Wexford, is also known by its Gaelic name, " Carúl Loch Garman." It has been performed for hundreds of years, and is considered to be one of the oldest Christmas carols with a melody outside the Roman Catholic tradition. Due to Britain's rule over Ireland, it [...]
Joyce - Boas festasJoão Bosco - I'll Be Home for Christmas* Photo by Alexandre Macieiera for Riotur
Live from Brazil comes Diplo with one of his "Blow Your Head" sets on Sirius/XM. Packed with moombahton bangers and smooth electro, the set pops up from start to finish. Aside from being an unreal producer, Diplo is one of my favorite artists in the spectrum of personality. Have you ever followed the dude on twitter ? He is hilarious. He has so much energy it's crazy and you can really hear it in his music. If i could spend every night of my life listening to sets like these on a beach in Brazil I wouldn't be mad. [...]
Sambas kids We Are Pirates are back with track #2, "Running", following on from their impressive CN included debut "Canyon" . continue reading >>
We've been excited about this ever since James Holden described it to us as "the best thing Border Community has ever released." Watch the stunning new video for Luke Abbott 's 'Brazil', with poetry by Sam Riviere and images from Kat Mager.
Normally, I wouldn't be into something so blatantly ripe for creating a frenzy on the dance floor. Then again, I'm a sucker for anything foreign. And when it comes to South America and dance music, I'm always interested in listening. Enter Mati Zundel and Marina Gasolina, a Buenos Aires musician/producer and a Brazilian singer, respectively. Elastic beats, traditional instruments, and sliced and diced vocals all melt into one another on "Zindud vs Melo de Tabaco," making for one energetic, relentless, interesting, and exciting shot of dance floor adrenaline. I hope you brought your dancing shoes...or a nice [...]
One of my clearest teenage memories is going to see Dimmu Borgir play the Hard Rock Café in midtown Manhattan (to be fair, I was too young to drink). Cryptopsy and Krisiun opened; I loved the former and had never heard of the latter. And while I have pleasant memories of making out with my girlfriend to Canadian death metal and Shagrath wearing a vest covered in neon orange plastic plates, the part of that show I remember most fondly was moshing to Krisiun. They were old-school metal just the way I liked it—three men blasting brutal riffs and warzone [...]
I know all of you probably have finals coming up, so just take the time to watch this video and maybe take some stress off. Brasil! Filed under: Music , R&B Tagged: Brazil , finals , girl from ipanema , mike tyson , school , singing , stress
Abjo released "Obrigado!", a few days back...classic goodness. Abjo still in our opinion, a majorly slept on producer. Don't miss out ya'll..support that true production Welcome to Obrigado!: a brazilian inspired beat "mixtape", full of released and unreleased beats of mine that fit in the category of beats coming from minha alma (my soul, for the natively english speaking folks). This mixtape is my prequel to a long awaited, much anticipated, thoroughly contemplated KC.93/Midnight Kids released beat tape, which, still untitled, should be released early spring next year. [...]
Marcello Gonçalves - Ingênuo* Photo by F. Pepe Guimarães
Senzari , a new Pandora competitor, launched in the U.S. and Brazil today with a licensed catalog of 10 million songs from all four major labels and many independents. Unlike Pandora, who has not followed the music service rush to Facebook , Senzari combines the musical choices of the user and their friends, as expressed on Facebook, to their individual choices and the sites algorithm. "Pandora's biggest complaint, from people that love the service, is that you maybe hear the same songs over and over again," company exec [...]
Luke Abbot - Brazil (Slow Version)
Silly me. I thought Tropicalia - that magical 19602s-conceived blend of samba, rock, and various Afro-Brazilian flavors - had said all it had to say by the late 19702s. I should have realized that it would beget offspring: that while founders like Gilberto Gil went into disco and reggae, and Baden Powell passed away, others would pick up the baton and do something new with it. Maciel Salu's album, Mundo , is a chip off the old block. Its sound, though rooted in Pernambuco, is also often reminiscent of songs like "Canto de Xango" from [...]
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