Your Favourite Brazilian Music

Posted by: fatcat on 11 June 2014

Brazil 2014 kicks off tomorrow, what's your favourite  Brazilian music.

 

Favourite Bachianas Brasileiras.

 

Favourite Astrud Gilberto song.

Posted on: 11 June 2014 by GregU

I like that band Os Mutantes

Posted on: 11 June 2014 by kuma

Sergio Mendes. He wrote many of classics but I like this one a lot. This tune epitomises that laid back easy going feeling of late afternoon sun. Sambadouro from the album Brasiliaro.

ok. Michael Franks isn't Brazilian but I used to love this tune 'Down in Brazil' from his Sleeping Gypsy album.  This was the last track of the Side B. A nice classy way to end an album I thought.

Eliane Elias' groovy intro tune 'An Up Down' from Three Americas.

Brazilian singer/pianist/composer Tania Maria's 'Come With Me'. Disco fave's of the 80s and sounds fab in vinyl.

Another Brazilian piano player Joan Donato.

 


I love Brazilian down tempo grooves.

Posted on: 12 June 2014 by ewemon

 

 

 

The first Sergio Mendes trax will always be my favourite Brazillian song of all time.

 

The second because it reminds me of football and the way they play the glorious game.

 

The third because I have always loved this track from Flora Purim

 

 

Posted on: 14 June 2014 by GraemeH

Not strictly true to the thread but we can't leave out Ms Sciubba!

 

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Posted on: 14 June 2014 by YanC

Posted on: 15 June 2014 by Wugged Woy

Listen to this  :

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A9h4c8kDso

 

The Grammy award winning disc is this : 

 

Posted on: 16 June 2014 by Marky Mark

For me it has to be Jorge Ben - Ponta de Lanca Africano:

 

 

 

Posted on: 23 June 2014 by fred simon

 

I have so many Brazilian faves ... here are four of the very best, and not just the very best Brazilian music but four of the very best albums of any kind of music:

 

 

MILTON - Milton Nascimento

 

 

 

NATIVE DANCER - Wayne Shorter & Milton Nascimento

 

 

 

CLUBE DA ESQUINA - Milton Nascimento

 

 

AWA YIO - Ivan Lins

 

Posted on: 26 June 2014 by Tony2011
Originally Posted by fred simon:

 

I have so many Brazilian faves ... here are four of the very best, and not just the very best Brazilian music but four of the very best albums of any kind of music:

 

 

MILTON - Milton Nascimento

 

 

 

NATIVE DANCER - Wayne Shorter & Milton Nascimento

 

 

 

CLUBE DA ESQUINA - Milton Nascimento

 

 

AWA YIO - Ivan Lins

 


Clube da Esquina is a marterpiece and a landmark in terms of breaking away with the values of  the new tropicalism movement and the decadence of bossa nova that seemed to dominate the  . The mixture of african beats  northeastern brazilian folklore music, lapidated arrangements and Milton's unique voice created a fantastic atmospheric album. You don't need to speak brazilian portuguese to enjoy this  album. You just feel it. It is astonishingly beautiful!

 

Posted on: 26 June 2014 by lutyens

 

 

two of my favourites. But only two of many as others have suggested

Posted on: 26 June 2014 by kuma

+1 for Marisa Monte!

This is my favourite tune "Ainda Lembro"  from the album Mais. Fabulous sounding on vinyl.

Posted on: 26 June 2014 by Haim Ronen
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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2001

Guilherme Vergueiro/Carlos Dos Santos

Espiritu

Naim Label

 

By Egidio Leitao

 

Espiritu is majestic. Brazilian pianist Guilherme Vergueiro teams up with seven-string guitarist Carlos dos Santos for this timeless album. From the opening track, a 10-minute, glorious rendition of K-Ximbinho's "Ternura (Tenderness)," the union of piano and guitar is perfect in every way and the notes flow smoothly as if coming from a single celestial instrument. The music's ethereal feel is what every musician longs to accomplish when playing classic works by Pixinguinha, Ary Barroso, Lupiscinio Rodrigues and Nelson Cavaquinho. Sometimes Vergueiro and Santos are simple and pure in their renditions, as with Pixinguinha's "Ingenuo (Naive)." At other times, however, these two virtuosos astound your senses: Rodrigues' "Se Acaso Voce Chegasse (In Case You Came By)" quietly moves from its unison introduction to a whirlwind performance of guitar excellence.

The album showcases six original pieces by Vergueiro and one by Santos amidst the other classics. For the listener, however, there is absolutely no rough transition from track to track. As if by magic, all you experience is superb musicianship by two consummate artists whose sole intent seems to be to lift your spirits with their magnificent artistic gift.

 
Posted on: 26 June 2014 by Mward2205

And of course:

Posted on: 27 June 2014 by lutyens

 

 

This lady is also very special.

Posted on: 28 June 2014 by fred simon
Originally Posted by Tony2011:
Clube da Esquina is a marterpiece and a landmark in terms of breaking away with the values of  the new tropicalism movement and the decadence of bossa nova that seemed to dominate the  . The mixture of african beats  northeastern brazilian folklore music, lapidated arrangements and Milton's unique voice created a fantastic atmospheric album. You don't need to speak brazilian portuguese to enjoy this  album. You just feel it. It is astonishingly beautiful!

 

 

Astonishingly beautiful and a masterpiece, indeed. And volume 2 is close behind.