Brazilian Music

In which case ... I sure don't know much. Don't know about everyone else, though.

anyone know anything about the 60s/70s era musician Tuca? She was a guitarist largely responsible for the sound of 2 of my top 10 all-time favorite records, Nara Leao's DEZ ANOS DEPOIS & Francoise Hardy's LA QUESTION. She apparently recorded 3 albums under her own name, I don't think they have been released on cd. Anyone have these?

TS: Laura Nyro vs. Nara Leao

A seemingly exhaustive intro to everything Joao Donato:

http://www.bjbear71.com/Donato/joao.html#Index

The woman who put that together is a trip. Check out the rest of her site- has the same for a bunch of arrangers and composers. Including like a dozen poems she wrote for Claus Ogerman

Also about two years late but Tuca's "Dracula I Love You" is very good

; )

Nice website and the links too.

I'm partial to Lula Cortes & Ze Ramalho' Paebiru, and the Satwa disc. The 1st 2 Gal Costa records are excellent. Caetano Veloso is consistently pretty interesting but he waxes a bit loungy for me at times, hence my preference for his 1st couple of records & Azul (I think that was the name). Those at least sound like the punch in the lounge was dosed with ayahuasca.

The separate Veloso c or d thread has me wanting to obtain numerous albums of his.

Caetano Veloso S and D

The bossa thread has numerous items I should get too. bossa nova: S&D

veloso's '69 self-titled is great, the a-side is perfect. "the empty boat" was the track that really got me into tropicalia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjNanbciqSE

currently listening to fairly cheeseball sub-Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 reissue of an album by D'Angelo (no, not that D'Angelo) - pretty fun and campy. includes a bunch of early Tim Maia covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Ej6UvAmEU

you can hear a mixture of stuff here - http://bmabrazil.bandcamp.com/

I just had a dream, not long before waking up, that I was reading a Nabisco post in which he mentioned the fact that there was a year when the only instrument used in Brazilian music was the theremin. (I don't think it was said explicitly in the post, but I understood this to be the result of some weird government censorship.)

Read ILM less and I end up dreaming about it. :(

New Maria Rita. Warning: turn up your volume, this first one is very quiet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB8PUvKUdaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_gI8tfXrII

I wonder how popular she is in Brazil?

Pretty sure she is quite popular.

Thanks. Not that it matters, I like her anyway, but I was just curious whether her style still reached a large audience there.

Actually, looking at the Brazilian sales figures for her albums on Wikipedia, she doesn't sell very big. She could still be big, but possibly she is a lot less popular than I thought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rita#Discography

My late Summer love of 2011 was Burnier e Cartier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XF5jW8p7Qo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuMN5MghZwk

Come learn the 4 most popular Brazilian dances in fun 3 sessions; Zouk, Samba de gafieira and Forro, and Samba no pe!

email from a meetup group I joined, but alas my schedule won't work for these series of lessons

Zouk?

Has it moved from the Caribbean to Brazil?

Can I pop into this thread to note what a fantastic album the late Suba's Sao Paulo Confessions (2000) is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJGQGsY6p_g

Has it moved from the Caribbean to Brazil?

Interesting.

Regarding Papa Wheelie's fave from last year that I forgot to look into. Need to check later and see if on Spotify

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Burnier-e-Cartier-LP-1976-Folk-Psych-Brazil-Rare-HEAR-/380320469777

http://soundcloud.com/bm-a/sets/the-new-brazilian-music-vol-4

This is popular with European whirled music djs

I like it too

http://www.whatslater.com/

a fair amount of Brazilian music coverage on this guy's blog of his writing

MAGA BO - QUILOMBO DO FUTURO

and a remixed version out. He's an American who moved to Brazil. Haven't listened yet but the press release claims

The original tracks united the organic subtleties of the Afro-Brazilian rhythms coco, maculelê, samba, gong and capoeira with the punchy, powerful, electronic based sounds of dub, raga, hip hop and dubstep. Batucada and bass, mids, treble. TUDO. The remixes take the tracks even further….

The wonderful Choro das 3 is finishing up a US tour with some shows in NYC, especially on at Barbes next Thursday: http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?95822-Choro-das-Tres-US-tour-May-July-2013

This festival going on right now for a few more days: http://www.ny.savassifestival.com.br/

http://cinemaguild.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TCGS&Product_Code=2458

But have you seen the recent Gilberto Gil movie doc Viramundo?

anyone know anything about the 60s/70s era musician Tuca? She was a guitarist largely responsible for the sound of 2 of my top 10 all-time favorite records, Nara Leao's DEZ ANOS DEPOIS & Francoise Hardy's LA QUESTION. She apparently recorded 3 albums under her own name, I don't think they have been released on cd. Anyone have these?

― gershy, Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:13 AM (5 years ago)

gershy, are you me? I have 2 of the Tuca LPs: Meu Eu and Dracula, I Love You
don't love them as much as the Leao and (especially) Hardy LPs, but there's something about her: like people you meet with the same birthday as you. plus I play Villa-Lobos -influenced acoustic guitar. Dracula... has a lot of personality.

But have you seen the recent Gilberto Gil movie doc Viramundo?
Nope, but I did see it mentioned on the Tom Jobim thread, I believe.

I forget on what thread we were discussing books about Brazilian music, but I just saw mention of this recent effort:

Ickes, Scott. 2013. Afro-Brazilian Culture and
Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil. Gainesville: University Press of
Florida.

Can I pop into this thread to note what a fantastic album the late Suba's Sao Paulo Confessions (2000) is?

http://www.youtube.com/v/TJGQGsY6p_g&fs=1&hl=en

― Sanpaku, Sunday, April 8, 2012 7:53 PM (2 years ago Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it's good for late at night or like, early in the morning if it's raining.

A very wet album.

I wish I hadn't taken so long to find out about this! It would have fit in well with the DJ Food and Amon Tobin I was listening to at the time it came out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye_0WAFu7IQ

I'm in love with this. Sort of a lost Brazilian freak folk album. Backstory: both girls shared a farm with a photographer and had kids with him (!)

Modern Brazil - s/d

It's not 'modern'. 1979 record

That was just a reminder to myself regarding that other Brazilian music thread

Haha I don't know the artist but feel instinctive revulsion towards any musical act that calls themselves "Jota Quest".

Would play a Brazilian bootleg dreamcast game called that tho.

There are a couple of stories of how they got that name. One involves Tim Maia.

LU's "Índios" seems to briefly melodically quote "Chantilly Lace."

TIL that Lulu Santos was once in a band with Patrick Moraz of Yes (and The Moody Blues) called Vímana.

I forgot that Rita Lee had been married to Arnaldo Baptista for a few years and maybe never quite knew how big she really became in Brazil.

Moraz's solo album Story of i features a number of Brazilian sequences, he even sketched drawings of South American percussion instruments for the liner notes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2tZNLnC2pI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9HZiEeq57g

^high energy performance from Paralamas at the first Rock in Rio concert in 1985

just getting around to hearing the arthur verocai s/t from '72 after, oh i'd say a decade of being aware of it.

i don't know if i would've like it so much back then. absolutely loving it this evening.

― budo jeru, Friday, July 14, 2023 7:49 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/summer-for-the-city/jazz-estandaacute-morto-arthur-verocai-with-orchestra

Na minha cidade, no interior

xp just saw that! unfortunately i already flew to NYC once to see music this summer. and the show in chicago, a bit closer to me, is like $50! let us know if you go

it's free and only 2 or 3 miles away from me, so unless something comes up i'll probably go!

This has a very late summer feeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmhO7iCrC2E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuEQzPrTu0

verocai tomorrow in nyc! got my tickets for the express line

Cool

let us know how it goes!

^

I have never felt later to a party than about this: despite being a bossa-nova fan since my early 20s, it was literally in April that somebody mentioned Elis Regina and I said “heard of her, is she good?” and the person to whom I was speaking immediately played me Aguas de Março for the first time. I can’t believe I’d never heard it before? It is handily my new #1 “favourite song ever recorded”, like I am destroyed by it

Ha, I remember I first heard of her because I was talking about some Brazilian stuff in an elevator in graduate school, probably some Tropicalia or Bebel Gilberto, and some stranger piped up to tell me about Elis Regina.

Feel like it’s hard to get a handle on all the things going on in Brazilian music for various reasons.

It is so weird that I missed it! Joao did a version of that song that I MUST have heard at some point, I guess it just bled into the surrounding tracks. I mentioned it to a friend this morning over text and he showed me two pairs of music friends who'd covered the Regina/Jobin version, and I just hadn't noticed. God. What other monuments to musical genius are residing in my blind spots, I wonder!

https://www.discogs.com/master/363981-Cartola-Cartola
this one ^
not on spotify
https://www.musicasdonordeste.net/2017/06/momentompb-cartola-i-cartola-ii-1974.html
grab it here

za za zey za

so i'm here and, uh... did na boca do sol go viral on tik tok or something??

i've been to a million free shows here and never seen a line like this for anything ever

zoomers were climbing onto forklifts in the street to watch Arthur Verocai LOL

https://i.ibb.co/X2zprw7/IMG-20230811-212017385-2.jpg

You wanted a field report, well, by 6:30 the line stretched 3 and a half blocks. I think at that point, most of us understood we weren't getting in, but had decided on standing by to listen from the street. Verocai came on around 8:30 after an interminable DJ set and multiple fawning introductions.

Renditions were note perfect, as you'd expect. They played the album out of sequence, starting with the instrumentals- this postponed the revelation that, for a guy who must be pushing 80, his voice hasn't really aged. It certainly crossed my mind that I might as well be listening to the record from the comfort of home.

But in this context the beauty and depth of the music stood out. So did its anonymity. Makes perfect sense as a crate digger's holy grail, an expertly composed and arranged record that vibes and just needs someone to put a face on it. My friend compared it to library music along similar lines- super OTM. Reaffirmed what I've always felt about the LP (that it's really, really good; that it's not quite the masterpiece it thinks it is)

Presumably some influencer blew this up on social media. I don't know if Adrian Younge is famous enough to account for the popularity of this event on his own or not. Very cool to see Brazilian music from the 70's *fucking finally* getting this kind of love in America!!! Of course it's for the album that conforms the most neatly to an auteur mentality of the Great Gothic Genius all too prevalent in the anglosphere...

had several thoughts yesterday

• the crowd seemed very hip/fashionable – no idea where that came from tbh
• loved to hear lots of classics played before during the dj set – baden powell, tim maia, bethania...
• loved the concert a lot despite a bunch of stuff hahah
• • kinda felt that sometimes drums/bass and some of brass went more jammy/heavy handed than the record. there's a vibe that is hard to achieve again on most of recorded brazilian music between 71 and 76
• • hated the way vocals were handed. I think the live mix is partly to blame – a very clean sound, which made it hard for vocals... they were almost struggling to get it out sometimes. the vocals (as most stuff again from the era) will be these lowkey melodies, hummed and harmonized. maybe some reverb would've helped here, idk
• • at the same time, the female singer was too hammy (she's also a former actress in a very, very bad sketch comedy show in Brazil, can't even believe that). like a very bad caricature of what emotion sounds like, we like to call this som de barzinho in Brazil

all in all thought, it was really cool to see and hear him so revered. his attitude through the concert was also a mix of cool/humble that was <3. and it was kinda cool to hear him attempt to do a small rap at some point hahaha.

ps. also got choked up by the homage the jazz is dead folks did for joão donato beforehand. amazing.

also wtf is people clapping randomly before the music is even finished? makes no sense

this footage appeared as part of the Donato homage – amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lbZ0kcR_48

some of brass went more jammy/heavy handed than the record.

i noticed that too. just personally, the performance didn't deviate enough from the record for my liking, but then when it did it wasn't great.

ps. also got choked up by the homage the jazz is dead folks did for joão donato beforehand. amazing.

oh i missed that!! (took a walk)

Was just thinking that, despite not being as canonical as Elis & Tom, the album Elis & Toots is still top shelf.

Somebody told me to listen to Renato Russo's Italian album so here I am:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i0nqpy6EgM

how do we not have a novos baianos thread?

how come none of you let me know they are touring north america right now??

Oh that's rad.

We don't have threads for a lot of Brazilian acts we should.

going tonight, will report back, without moraes is a hard sell, but pepeu, baby and paulinho are still there...

as in – I don't think they can play mistério do planeta or acabou chorare without moraes... but we'll see

First ever Novos Baianos North American tour. I don't think they came to my area (Washington DC) but I see they are in NYC tonight.

Jonathan Bogart in his email newsletter wrote a long review of their Chicago gig with Joe Bataan opening. Bogart said in part -

when the three surviving original members of Novos Baianos finally emerged, the reason for the delay became clear: guitarist Pepeu Gomes was in a wheelchair, flanked by singers Paulino Boca de Cantor and Baby Consuelo, who emerged to rapturous applause — there was a significant, and rowdy, Brazilian contingent in the crowd, and it was the first time they’ve played the U.S. in their fifty-year career — and gave brief expressions of gratitude in rapid Portguese and halting English.

as they shifted into second gear it was clear that Pepeu’s guitar playing was not affected; a raging “Dê um Rolê” made it clear why he had been invited to play with Megadeth and Living Color in the Nineties, and some of the older members of the crowd fled as the amp stacks blared feedback. Then Baby Consuelo, who had hung back with the percussionists for the first few songs, took center stage, although she apparently had problems with her in-ear monitor over the course of the evening, which repeated visits from stage techs were unable to solve — finally she took it out and let it dangle as she danced and sang in an Elza Soares-inspired throaty scat, which seemed to break out more frequently over the course of the show.

By contrast with her boundless energy, Paulino Boca de Cantor was relatively staid: hunched with age and looking a bit like a Vegas lounge singer, he stuck to his microphone until towards the end of the show she coaxed him over to where Pepeu sat in order to delight together in another of his intricate solos. His aging voice was exactly as smooth and mellow as any stereotypical Brazilian crooner’s would be, and only the playful, eccentric lyrics to songs like “Mistério do Planeta” and “Acabou Chorare” distinguished his performances from a trad samba-canção or bossa nova. Which is, of course, part of the magic of Novos Baianos: eccentric and traditional at the same time, they contain multitudes.

I wish I was more familiar with the band’s discography outside of Acabou Chorare in order to give a proper breakdown — flitting through their recent live releases on streaming services, I recognize a bunch of the tunes they performed, although not the order a few days later (and the setlist.fm record is very incomplete). I do remember being ecstatic at “A Menina Dança” — Baby Conseulo is still just as lively and mesmerizing at 73, bright blue hair, unabashed facial reconstruction and all, as she was in 1972 — and thrilling when she stopped the band cold during a run through of “Tinindo Trincando” in order to make them play it even faster, taking the second half at a blistering punk-rock pace. Twice during the show, Pepeu Gomes staggered up from his seated position in order to deliver a righteously climactic guitar solo —...

But even if the current views are retrograde (Baby’s most recent Brazilian media controversy was over a sermon where she urged victims of sexual abuse to forgive their abusers), the old music remains idealistically utopian, and I find myself in the somewhat awkward position I was in as a young believer, where I have to believe that the perfection of the Message cannot be dimmed by the imperfections of its messengers. It was a uniquely intense, delicious, and nourishing experience to get to see and hear Pepeu, Baby and Paulino and their backing band at the opening concert of their first-ever U.S. tour, even though I hadn’t known their music until last year and hadn’t even spent much time with the canonical album until last week.

A little Itamar Assumpção exhibit on at the NYPL for the Performing Arts in Lincoln Center right now

going tonight, will report back, without moraes is a hard sell, but pepeu, baby and paulinho are still there...

― fpsa, Thursday, July 24, 2025 3:35 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah ... :(

would love to hear your thoughts on the show. my friend will be there! lol, i'm totally NOT jealous

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ZKwyiuXzY/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Someone’s video clip from NYC show .

Oh , guitarist Moraes died in 2020.

It was mind blowing. They played non-stop. Pepeu had a hip surgery 20 days ago and needs to sit/use a wheelchair, and he rocked. Baby is bananas live. Paulinho is charming and low key, but also very amazing to see him sing so many classics. Crowd was crazy. It was pretty heavy at times! And they lowkey were helping/trying to figure out the sound in the beginning, class act and experience just there.

one weird thing was one of baby and pepeu's daughter singing acabou chorare... such an amazing song, and it went weird sometimes. but it was still great. because pepeu was just droning/strumming the opening chords for such a long time as a intro. sweet. it's one of those intros like Where were you from the Mekons or Shake some action or Undiu by João Gilberto – a state of trance and flow with such economy and briefness and melancholy. chills.

go see them if you can. a band that did this can't be a band that you miss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlm_SIw2YnI

PS: pepeu went full throttle on Mistério, just like this. It was also amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWfseMcAUZY

I should have gone up to NY and seen Novos B at Webster Hall and gone to Lincoln Center NYPL for the Perf Arts to see the Itamar Assumpção exhibit mentioned above also.

RIP Lô Borges

https://www.jazzisdead.com/joyceetutty1

Joyce Moreno and drummer and supporter Tutty

I certainly am familiar with Joyce but didn't know about Tutty.

Critic Brad Luen on his fave non-US singer songwriters

Joyce Moreno
Okay I’m giving away that Brazil is going to do very well on my Top 70 Albums of the 1970s list, due at summer’s end. I reviewed the re-surfaced Natureza a few years ago, and the stuff that was actually released at the time was at least at that level.