Change isn’t always a good thing but being the optimists we are, we try to associate the word with positive sentiments. For those of us who are searching for the good kind, I believe I’ve found it. Now, I wasn’t going to do a music post for another week or so but its very hard not to do one when you come across ‘the greatest thing since sliced bread’. Musica do Bolso (Music from the Pocket) is an absolutely wonderful project, according to a music nut like myself, which aims to….well, I’ll let them explain…

“Pocket Music (Música de Bolso) is a Brazilian website that contains “videos to hear and music to see”. Daniel, Rafael and Tati are filmmakers who are capturing with a camera different kind of artists playing music in unusual places and with a lot of spontaneity, with a help from the cultural journalist Marcus Preto. It’s a union of an acoustic pocket show in unexpected Brazilian places and a one shot live video with a touch of documentary. Every week we post one volume of the project that is kind of a 7″(virtual) vinyl with 2 videos (a side A and a side B).”

That being said, they also have a blog in English so check it out. Back to the idea behind the project, I believe music should be about things like this, at its most basic, about the voices and the instruments. At its most interesting, it is beauty that comes from nowhere, something which didn’t exist before someone created it. Creativity like this is the kind of change we need…even when it’s the pocket-sized kind. Below, I’ll post two examples of their work. 

Mayra Andrade & Mariana Aydar – Tunuka

Thalma de Freitas & Max B.O. – Monstro ao Pôr-do-Sol