This is the 2nd part looking a Pele singing. The first part is here . Firstly a couple of curios from him. They are only snippets but still worth a listen. - This is a very rough recording from what could be from one of his documentaries. It is Edson singing along with some kids: "I like to be the best" [See post to listen to audio] » Pele with the Young Giants - I Like To Be The [...]
...continuing the Brazil week... The Brazil feature began when I got an email pointing me towards some South American footballandmusic - in which all the songs actually originated from just person. The same time that I receive this mail I had just been looking through my collection of footie and music and saw this same name a few times too. This coincidence was no coincidence... or something... We need to tell the people about this. » I was going to write and expand more about today's subject, but werk elsewhere [...]
A do Pedro Alexandre Sanches com o Jorge Ben na Trip. E a da Dani Arrais do Don't Touch My Moleskine com o Fernando Catatau. Os outros vídeos estão lá no blog.
Good luck wasn't always with blonde French beauty Isabelle Aubret: In 1963, Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand had chosen her for the lead role in Les parapluies de Cherbourg , but then she had a severe car accident and La Deneuve took over. Though she had won the Eurovision song contest with the melancholic Un premier amour a year earlier, Aubret never was a pop starlet, but a true chansonette. Among many fine songs, her 1971 version of the never aging Brazilian smash hit Mas Que Nada under the title La ville est là is especially remarkable, [...]
Olhaí, Balândro...É Bufo No Birrolho Grinza! might have been the last shimmer of Wilson Simonal's brilliance before his artistic decline began to match the decline in his popularity.
Just a quick post to say goodbye to summer in the northern hemisphere! It's over. Leaves are falling and it is getting cold already. Damn that was quick... Anyway. Jorge Ben - A Tamba
LA-based songwriter AM is getting ready to release his sophomore album, Future Sons & Daughters , due out on August 11th and will be hitting the road in support of the record. On August 20th, AM stops by Philadelphia at World Cafe Live downstairs with The Rescues . For his new album, AM found inspiration in his own extensive 1960s record collection ranging from obscure Brazilian music to Italian soundtracks. Fusing simple, intelligent lyrics, undeniable pop sensibilities and sparse, psychedelic grooves, Future Sons & Daughters [...]
The 2002 Wah Wah Records cd release of Astrud Gilberto 's 1971 Astrud Gilberto with Turrentine doesn't differ much from other editions that are available to buyers. The main advantage is the inclusion of a number of Ennio Morricone -composed tracks, which are among her finest recordings, particularly the sublime 'Acercandome a Ti', produced by Manolo Diaz and present here in Spanish- and Italian-language versions. While her early seventies catalogue doesn't receive as much attention, this is a cut above, full of great players playing at their best. And I haven't [...]
Filed under: Around the World 'Sobre o Amor e Seu Trabalho Silencioso,' the opening song on Céu 's new second album, 'Vagarosa,' will be a revelation to anyone who might have dismissed the Brazilian singer's star-making 2007 debut as merely another nova bossa nova blend of cool vocals and contemporary club/lounge production. With just Rodrigo Campos' cavaquinho (sort of a Brazilian ukulele) backing Céu's lilting voice, this song entrances in a way completely opposite of the first album: no electronics, no cross-culture gimmicks -- just a stripped-down, vulnerable mix [...]
Deer Tick "Easy" (mp3) from "Born on Flag Day" (Partisan Records) More On This Album Jorge Ben "Ponta de lanÃÂa africano - Umbabarauma" (mp3) from "Twenty First Century Twenty First Year" (Luaka Bop) [...]
Brazilian psych legends Os Mutantes, who returned to the stage in 2006 for a handful of decidedly retro shows (see "A Minha Menina" in London above), are now coming back with their first new album in 35 years on September 8th through Anti- records, also home to everything from Porter Wagoner to Sage Francis to Antibalas and Man Man. Who knows what to expect from this band at this point, but with reported collaborations with awesome weirdo Tom Zé and smooth Tropicalian Jorge Ben on the album, entitled Haih , don't be surprised if it's the soundtrack to some [...]
Jorge Ben - Vem morena, vem* Photo by Vicente Reyes
The Monks/ Complication Artesians/ Trick Bag Jacques Dutronc/ Les Cactus Group Doueh/ Eid For Dakhla Nahid Akhtar/ Toune Kaha Aa Aa Aa Jorge Ben/ Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma) Johnny's Guitar/ Kratae Ros Sereysothea & Seang Vanthy/ Jam 5 Kai Thiet (Wait 5 More Months) [...]
This is what there should look like and we can meet there with the call of our hands. And all of those noises, taking in the ones we know. This reminds me of Joseph Addison. Because this is what gardens should look like. Jorge Ben - "Cuidado Com O Bulldog"
I first started getting into Brazilian music when a friend, who used to travel to Brazil for skateboarding (and to hunt down Volkswagon parts to sell to collectors), used to come back with piles of Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Rita Lee and other Tropicalia records. Not long after, Aquarius Records in S.F. was pumping the U.S. reissues of those and the crazy history of this revolutionary 60's movement started to circulate. I grabbed up as many Brazilian records from that era as I could, stumbling across this awesome jam after finding Brazil Classics Vol. 1 [...]
In a country where factions have long dominated the music scene, Jorge Ben has remained a loner; his only allegiance has been to his own brilliant music. Paradoxically, refusing to join any one faction has led Ben to be covered by musicians from all of them. It's a phenomenon that's well documented in Tudo Ben , a new compilation of Jorge Ben covers released last month by Mr. Bongo records.
Usually I follow up "the rest" with a brief rundown of "the worst"—albums I picked up that I wound up actively disliking. Happily for me, that didn't really happen in the last three months. That said, there were plenty of albums that I just didn't connect with. Maybe it's their fault, maybe it's mine. Maybe they're actually mediocre; maybe I just need to hear them in another mindset, some other month or year. I'd still recommend most or all of these albums, with reservations and/or personal caveats that may not apply to you. [...]
It has been absolutely freezing here in Copenhagen for a couple of weeks now. The weather is beautiful but every time I have been outside - even if only for a few seconds - I just cannot stop freezing afterwards. In these situations I have found that Brazilian music can be an effective cure. So alongside the termostat, you could also turn up the volume with the bossanova of Antonio Carlos Jobin
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion (4), Feels , and Strawberry Jam Andrew Bird, Noble Beast (8) The Ruby Suns, Sea Lion Wavves, Wavvves La Düsseldorf, s/t Jorge Ben, África Brasil It's pretty much been all Bird all week—at least once a day, sometimes twice, since Monday. It's grown on me, as I expected it would. It's also kind of pushing the Animal Collective off to one side. Meanwhile, a couple new acquisitions—La Düsseldorf [...]
Mas Que Nada . Jorge Ben created it and Sergio Mendes delivered. Another one of those mind blowing thrift store finds from my post-post-punk days in high school. Here's Wikipedia on it's meaning: [...]
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