For your consideration: Paulinho Da Viola

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I understand he was and remains a pretty big star in Brazil, and yet among Americans, even those interested in Brazillian music, I almost never hear his name come up.

As far as I'm concerned, no one does samba cancao better. His sleepy, understated tenor has a wonderful, sentimental happy-sadness to it, and his guitar playing pushes and pulls the rhythm in a great, fluid way.

One thing I always liked about samba cancao is that it seems to play with our ideas of "civilization" and "wildness" in the way it seamlessly blends "classy" sounding European song structures with percussion associated with "the street", with raunchiness, with carnival, etc. It also seems to console the sadness of the individual by beckoning him into the community (the chorus).

The song below does that exceptionally well, I think, as the guitar and vocal melody start out sounding almost like a Spanish or Portuguese song and then the samba percussion gradually fades in.

http://s35.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0OLM7PJR80VVK3KHRS9V74DLZY

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

Some dude on slsk turned me on to Paulinho da Viola earlier this year (and indirectly to Clara Nunes also), and god that guy absolutely RULES. One of my favorite "discoveries" in a long time. I'm sort of suprised he hasn't been mentioned on ILM much (searching the archives, it looks like Hurting is the only person to ever bring him up).

It's hard for me to choose which album to recommend. maybe A Danca Da Solidao (which is what the two songs Hurting YSI'd are from) or the self-titled from 1971, but I've liked just about everything I've heard so far.

I guess a DVD biography type of thing was released fairly recently. I'd be curious to see it, but I wonder if it's going to be in Portuguese without subtitles. Anyone know?

― Lingbertt, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

I had trouble finding his early albums so I just picked up a Brazillian label compilation called Raizes Do Samba: Paulinho Da Viola.

Come on ILM, consider him! Consider! Free songs and shit.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I've read a lot of Brazilian artists name him as an influence, and I'm sure I have some of his stuff, but not sure where.

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

oops. PDaV released two self-titled albums in 1971. I was referring to the second one, the one that starts with "Perder e ganhar," though both of the albums are worth hearing. And I'm pretty sure they're both album on one cd called "2 Em 1."

His page on allbrazilianmusic.com has 30-second clips of a lot of his stuff. I know Amazon does that too, but abm.com probably has more stuff to hear.

― Lingbertt, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Disappointed more people aren't checking this out. Free, really good early 1970s samba music, come on!

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Very disappointed.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

Wow, this is one of the worst album covers I've ever seen:

http://samba-choro.com.br/s-c/fotos/paulinhonervos.JPG

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

all the women in brazil have a penis

THINK ABOUT THAT ONE PAL

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

I'd check it out, but it's in m4a and I can't play it.

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

here are mp3s of the songs Hurting ysi'd

guardei minha viola:
http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZL0S8RG2VWWV0NP01EWQ6G02E

dança da solidão:
http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WV1CHJ96KG842VHEM2E5CSQDM

― Lingbertt, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

That allbrazilianmusic.com site is great by the way. I've never seen it before. Allmusic.com is terrible on artists that aren't really big in the U.S. and their discographies are really shabby.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Lingbertt!

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

That is great. In theory the rhythm section is really incongruous, but it works.

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

I still love this guy -- wish more of his stuff was available here.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 4 June 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

my paulinho da viola process:

1. get interested from the thread.
2. write it down.
3. d/l it months later.
4. put it on the player, never think to spin it, let it come up on random.
5. love.

― jergins (jergins), Sunday, 4 June 2006 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

lots of Paulinho Da Viola on this dude's blog:
http://samba-do-criolo-doido.blogspot.com/

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

you sure about that?

― s1ocki, Monday, 12 March 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

haha well there used to be. the comments box is full of sad people asking the blogger to "Voltaaaaaaaaaaaa". too bad.

― Lingbert, Monday, 12 March 2007 03:04 (eighteen years ago)

He's still in moderate to heavy rotation for me.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 12 March 2007 03:06 (eighteen years ago)

You can hear 4 songs on the Paulinho Da Viola MySpace page

― Lingbert, Monday, 12 March 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― Lingbert, Monday, 12 March 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

hearing his songs on myspace is going to get me listening to him again. it's like i forget how good he is.

― Lingbert, Monday, 12 March 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'll have to finally check him out. He's a name I keep seeing.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1cBlr6PM6E

― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 04:51 (twelve years ago)

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