I leave for my first year of college very soon, so here's a mix for my travels and for yours. None of these ten tracks are particularly new; they're simply tunes to get us where we're going. tracklist: Jules & Jim - Leaving Home/Going Home Air France - hold on to me, baby Air France - Afraid You Told Someone About Us The Tough Alliance - First class riot (a touch of Jules & Jim) Korallreven - Honey Mine (ft Victoria Bergsman) Stan Getz & João Gilberto [...]
Eliane Elias, the Brazilian singer, pianist and composer, is no stranger to the music scene. She was one of the many notable Latin jazz artists featured in Fernando Trueba's wonderful documentary film Calle 54 . She has worked with legends like Herbie Hancock and trumpeter Randy Brecker , to whom she was once married. And her latest release, Light My Fire , marks a career that spans nearly three decades. Her new album not only contains her signature Bossa Nova work, but she also covers [...]
Thinking about traveling reminds me it's time for one of my foreign language song days.
Many find it hard to believe but I often need to take a break from high volume, head banging rock, punk and metal. The fact is staying away from what you love makes you love and crave it even more. And when I need to rest my battered ears I do not turn to mellow singer-songwriter crap, electronic "chill out" garbage or, even worse, Wilco. There are many other musical avenues I like to travel but one of my favorites is the high energy and rhythmically exciting realm of Brazilian music. I have many Bossa Nova compilations but when I [...]
Download audio file (49-Saudade-Vem-Correndo.mp3) We're going to South America with this one! From Philly to Rio de Janeiro, from Cali to São Paulo, from the D to Pelourinho to Brooklyn to Salvador & right into your NKD collection! Those that know me, know that I am a huge fan of Bossa Nova/Brazilian music. It blew up by mainly young musicians & college students in the 19602s & since then has continued to be a influence in todays music from Koop to Nouvelle Vague & Jneiro Jarel. Bossanova rhythmically has Samba foundations , while harmonically the structure [...]
Hi I'm David, and no, I'm not a DJ, but thanks for asking. Now that the final whistle has been blown from the pitch of Soccer City Stadium in South Africa, I'm starting to experience some serious World Cup withdrawal. No, really, it's gotten pretty bad. This morning I took "penalty kicks" with a plush soccer ball on a goal I constructed out of couch pillows. At the same time, I was also reliving some of the best and worst moments of the tournament. Though some of the 2010 World Cup's most memorable aspects had nothing to do with soccer [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales Every time the maids cleaned up the tangerine peels stashed beneath the young musician's hotel bed, they found more the next day. João Gilberto eventually explained that he put them there to attract ants -- to keep him company. As a young man in Brazil, Gilberto had a unusual way of looking at the world. A rising singing star in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1950s, he dropped out of a fertile music scene and went into self-imposed exile, returning to introduce a new style [...]
Desde hace varios años, la gente de Apple ha reunido algunas listas de canciones escogidas por artistas de todo el orbe como Beyoncé, Avril Lavigne y The Flaming Lips entre otros, para ponerlas en iTunes al módico precio de 0.99 dólares la pieza. Obviamente, no en todos los casos las listas valen la pena, pero ésta en particular es una gran excepción. Son 18 tracks escogidos por los chicos de Thievery Corporation , quienes a través de su selección muestran no sólo su gran gusto musical, sino los ritmos [...]
Filed under: Around the World So how many Cuban/Latin American albums were made in Prague last year? Marta Topferova knows of just one. And she made it. Ironically, for the Czech-born New York resident, recording for the first time ever in her native land (a converted farmhouse studio outside of Prague, to be exact) allowed her to maximize the Caribbean sounds of the bolero and son and other roots of 'Trova,' her just-released album. "I've never recorded in Prague before," she says. [...]
Sé que a muchos de ustedes ya no les tocó, pero algunos seguramente recordarán los tiempos en los que no había Spotify, Last.fm ni banda ancha; tiempos en los que la mejor manera de escuchar la música que querías en el orden que querías era armarte una mixtape en cassette (o CD, dependiendo de la época). Por supuesto, ahora sólo tienes que arrastrar con el mouse tus canciones favoritas, ponerlas en una lista en Spotify o cualquier servicio similar, y mandárselas a tus amigos por correo, Twitter o lo que sea que esté [...]
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Toronto - How do you link the following topics: traditional Bossa Nova, modern electronica, music royalty, and soul revivalists? The answer is of course Bebel Gilberto . Her latest album All In One has just been released, making it her debut on the Verve label. Furthering her work of creating Bossa-Nova infused pop, All In One provides a laid-back and non-confrontational vibe. Gilberto keeps things updated by partnering with such modern luminaries as Mark Ronson and the Dap-Kings. At the same time, she remains firmly grounded in her colourful past by working with a [...]
Stan Getz & João Gilberto - " The Girl from Ipanema " 1964 was taken over by jazzy bossa nova in the form of Getz/Gilberto and they're honey sweet version of "The Girl from Ipanema." It also took over the 1965 Grammy's winning Album of the Year, Best Jazz Album and the coveted Record of the Year. João Gilberto's wife Astrud provided the vocals that make this version the gold standard for the song about a real Brazilian girl .
Filed under: Around the World It must be hard sometimes for Luciana Souza to keep track of who she is night to night, musically speaking. The tour she's on right now has already seen her in an intimate jazz/bossa nova residency at San Francisco Performances, working in a trio format at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center and teaming in her mezzo-soprano persona with dancer Rosa Collantes for three shows with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, sandwiched around a brief Spain tour. Still to come are another dance/orchestra program [...]
Miles Davis once said of João Gilberto, "He could read a newspaper and sound good." I, for one, would stand in line to hear João Gilberto read a newspaper, magazine, or phone book start to finish, provided that his guitar was in hand accompanying. On second thought, I would even stand in line for the voice [...]
It's cold here in Montreal! This week's temperature dropped below 20C. It may well be the time we should remember the sun and the beach. And even though not all of us have been as fortunate as Gui and Nextron, who were surviving in extreme beach conditions somewhere around São Paulo during the holidays, at least we can daydream of Brazil - the land of big Jesus, great beaches, beautiful women and, of course, unique music. [...]
This is the first installment of contributor John Bohannon's monthly column, The Brazilian Beat . When looking at another country's music through Western ideals, it's hard to get past the conditioned view that most Americans have of what "world" music is. From Barnes and Noble to Best Buy, some of the world's most prestigious artists have been lumped into Latin Café compilations and stereotyped as a whole. Some years ago, the pieces of international music started falling into place, and the rock n' roll mindset of [...]
This is the first installment of contributor John Bohannon's monthly column, The Brazilian Beat . When looking at another country's music through Western ideals, it's hard to get past the conditioned view that most Americans have of what "world" music is. From Barnes and Noble to Best Buy, some of the world's most prestigious artists have been lumped into Latin Café compilations and stereotyped as a whole. Some years ago, the pieces of international music started falling into place, and the rock n' roll mindset of [...]
Bossa nova turns 50 this year, with the official birth date harkening back to Brazil in 1958 when guitarist João Gilberto recorded Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes's seminal "Chega de Saudade." With Gilberto's new samba-derived rhythm and soft-spoken, non-vibrato vocals, the song helped to launch a movement of a new sound that melded seductive Brazilian rhythms with jazz and European classical harmony. In celebration of the silver anniversary, the Sao Paulo-born/New York-based vocalist/pianist Eliane Elias lovingly pays tribute to the music of her homeland with [...]
English Version: According to wikipedia : "Aquarela do Brasil" ("Watercolor of Brazil"), also known in the English-speaking countries simply as "Brazil" , is one of the most popular Brazilian songs of all times, written by Ary Barroso on a rainy night in 1939. This song marked the creation of a new genre, the samba-exaltação (Exaltation Samba)" Versión en Español: "Aquarela do Brasil" mejor conocida por los anglosajones como [...]
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