Lindo. Simplesmente lindo. Não sei se gosto mais da letra, do vídeo ou da música. Geração 80 e Aline. Estão demais. Beautiful. Simply beautiful. I don't know what I like more...the video, the song or the lyrics themselves. Geração 80 and Aline outdid themselves here.
It's frequently said that Angola and Mozambique have similar political and social realities. We both had socialist regimes, we both suffered a debilitating civil war, and we both have issues when dealing with the basic tenants of a democratic state, such as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and human rights. This is precisely the topic of Azagaia's first single since signing for Kongoloti Records: “MIR - Música de Intervenção Rápida” (Rapid Intervention Music) is the song Azagaia wrote after the last demonstration of the veterans of war that was brutally ended by the mozambican police. The [...]
Vem aí o novo álbum da Aline: chama-se Movimento e sai dia 20 de maio pela Ponto Zurca. Enquanto esperamos, podemos já começar a conhecer o que promete ser um lindo trabalho. Numa colaboração com a Geração 80, a Aline brinda-nos com o terceiro de vários episódios. A ver: Aline's second studio album is coming soon. It's called Movimento and is slated for a 20th May release on the Ponto Zurca label. Until then, we can start geting to know what promises to be a beautiful piece of work. In a collaboration with Geração 80, Aline [...]
Dar e Receber is Helder Faradai's first single since signing for Kongoloti Records and features Angolan musician Gonçalo Clington. It has that polished, high quality production quality we've come to expect from Faradai and Jazzmática , but this one is a little sparser in its arrangements. I'll let Helder explain his inspiration in his own words: I was inspired by that show on Angolan FM stereo called...''Canta Angola'', where they played many sounds exulting our Angolan culture, in the musicality that is this country. This is a tribute to our elders, [...]
The Lounge's long time readers will know how much I appreciate Milton Gulli's music. The Portuguese-Mozambican musician has done some brilliant work over the years and participated in some fantastic projects and bands, including afro-beat collective Cacique '97, Dub Inna Week and Lovers Rock Inna Week, all of which are favorites of mine and have a special place here at the Lounge. Milton Gulli's latest project is nothing more, nothing less than a full scale label. It's called Kongoloti Records and it's already starting to flex its muscles. Earlier this year one of my favorite [...]
Vem aí o novo álbum da Aline: chama-se Movimento e sai dia 20 de maio pela Ponto Zurca . Enquanto esperamos, podemos já começar a conhecer o que promete ser um lindo trabalho. Numa colaboração com a Geração 80 , a Aline brinda-nos com os primeiros de vários episódios. A ver: Aline's second studio album is coming soon. It's called Movimento and is slated for a 20th May release on the Ponto Zurca label. Until then, we can start geting to know what promises to be a beautiful piece of work. In [...]
Rock in Angola is in the ascendancy. Although the genre has been around in Angola since the country's first years, and has been featured in a radio program called Volume 10 on Rádio FM/Rádio Escola for the past 17 years, it's not until now that it is truly gaining a foothold. The first proper Angolan rock album wasn't released until 2006 - Neblina's Innocence Falls in Decay - and to this day the genre continues to attract controversy and stigma . Of all the genres [...]
I've been hearing of Sergio Tannus for almost a year now but only recently did I finally have the singular pleasure of listening to his album, Son Brasilego. What a joyous, uplifting, good-natured and good-humored album. The type of album that you just know was very fun to create and produce; the type of album where you know that all involved had a great time jamming out together; the type of album where you can feel that all the participants have a genuine love for music and art. It's an album that celebrates the synergies between Brazil and Galiza, where [...]
Uma pequena amostra, um mero petisco, do que é o documentário de Pierre Aderne . Chama-se Música Portuguesa Brasileira e quero muito vê-lo. MPB musica portuguesa brasileira from Diego Quindere on Vimeo .
Pierre Aderne's Bem me Quer, Mar me Quer was recommended to me by a friend who generally shares my taste in music and has a great ear for what's happening in the Portuguese market. The album was my companion during a trip to Lisbon last year, a trip in which I had the opportunity to meet Pierre Aderne and just barely missed a live performance of his. Pierre calls his music MPB, not for the initials for the brazilian genre, but rather ' música portuguesa brasileira - Portuguese-Brazilian Music. He [...]
No sábado passado o Espaço Bahía, talvez o meu lugar preferido para se ver música ao vivo em Luanda , rendeu-se às vozes de músicos da minha geração: Aline Frazão , Toty Sa'med, Irina Vasconcelos e Gari Sinedima. Na noite seguinte foi a vez do Chá de Caxinde, agora totalmente remodelado. Eram vozes jovens, cheias de intensidade, a interpretar temas de gerações passadas. Pelas imagens que se seguem, foi lindo. Esperamos poder vê-los mais vezes. Muitas mais. Last Saturday, Espaço Bahía, perhaps my favorite place to listen to live music in Luanda [...]
This isn't a typo. I really do mean 2011. I used to make fun of the guys at Wakuti Musica and Luaty at Musica Uhuru for going months without updating their blogs. Now I can finally relate. This post was due a little over 1 year ago . As other projects, events, and dreams have gotten in the way, my Lusophone music consumption greatly suffered, and with it the pace of writing at the Lounge. I didn't even finish listening to most albums below until well [...]
Halloween, the man who shook me from my writing lethargy. One of my (many) handicaps with Lusophone music is my lack of in-depth knowledge of Portuguese rap, from Portugal. I’m completely in... {This is a content summary only. Click on the blog title to continue reading this post, share your comments, listen to the tunes and more!}
Como escritor de um blog de música minimamente conhecido, recebo por dia vários emails das chamadas PR agencies que procuram a todo custo promover os artistas que pagam pelos seus préstimos. É tudo parte da estratégia de promoção da música numa altura em que a internet parece mesmo ser a principal plataforma pela sua disseminação. Sendo os blogs parte desta ferramenta, os seus escritores são diariamente bombardeados com este tipo de emails. Não importa se o blog só promove música lusófona. [...]
O segundo post que escrevi neste blog, há mais de 4 anos atrás, foi um som do Ikonoklasta/Brigadeiro Matrafrakuxz/Luaty, chamado 2000 Dikas. É um dos meus sons preferidos do mano. Ainda me lembro da primeira vez que ouvi o Ikonoklasta . Foi no disco do Katro que também ouvia pela primeira vez. Trincheira de Ideias. Nunca me esqueço nem do disco nem de onde estava quando o ouvi - na sala da casa da minha tia na Vila Alice, já de noite, e graças ao meu mano Paulo. Foi numa altura em que simplesmente não [...]
From the first seconds of this song, and it's short, measured buildup, I could tell I would thoroughly enjoy it. My appreciation for it went up as the verses progressed. Valete talks about what the impending economic catastrophe is doing to the Portuguese, especially its youth. How emigration makes more and more sense, and how many people leave their loved ones and their livelihood (to earn a lot more money in Angola, for example). If the content wasn't enough, the quality of production of this track is sublime. Having Nuno Lopes feature was a great decision - you won't hear [...]
Alternative Angolan hip-hop is alive and well. And that man Helder Faradai seems to be playing a part in it. Within three seconds of the song I could hear Faradai's production...it's interesting sound that Jazzmática have been able to consistently create. Directamente da Lama is Mano António's first single, himself another member of Jazzzmática. The subject matter is the type of social commentary commonly heard in Angolan hip-hop, critical of the status-quo and politically conscious. Watch this space for Mano António's EP. Directamente da Lama [...]
Long time no see, MCK. We return this Saturday with two fresh tracks from MCK's Proibido Ouvir Isto . Será que a kota é fã... ou espiã... estou baralhado, está me deixar tan-tan.. Será que a dama é fã... ou espiã... 'Ta me pedir para autografar o sutiã... [...]
O poema é do Massalo ; a música, neo-soul de leve, suave e tenra, é do Wawuti ; o desenho, lindo e acolhedor, é da Joana . E no desenho, os versos do Massalo, musicados pelo Wawuti, são legíveis e ganham vida... Brevemente, o leitor poderá ter este lindo projecto , totalmente financiado pelo público angolano, nas suas mãos. Mas agora, neste momento, já pode ter o Vaivém nos seus ouvidos. [...]
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