Tiê is a new-comer on the São Paulo music circuit. Here’s the first song, Assinado Eu (Signed Yours Truly) off her first, new LP and here’s her site.
Assinado Eu – Tiê
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Quem Tem Carinho Me Leva – Giovana
Who has affection can take me
sung by Giovana
Sei Lá – Miúcha & Tom Jobim
I don’t know*
Miúcha & Tom Jobim (w/ Chico Buarque)
There’s days that I just sit thinking about life
And sincerely, I don’t see a way out
How is it for example that one can understand
We barely are born when we start to die
After the arrival, there’s always the goodbye
Because there’s nothing without seperation
* – Sei lá means ‘I don’t know’ but sometimes with the added connotation of being too lazy to think about the answer.
Portuguese lyrics here.
Musica Do Bolso – Pocketful of Change
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
O Ritmo da Chuva – Fernanda & Rodrigo
The Rythym of the Rain
by Fernanda Takai (Pato Fu) & Rodrigo Amarante (Los Hermanos)
Daniela Mercury – Nobre Vagabundo
How much time do I have
to feel this longing
My love, the jealousy
Its pure vanity
If you escape time
Soon it brings anxiety
Breathe love
Exhaling liberty
Maria Chiquinha – Sandy & Junior
Normally, I wouldn’t post anything about Sandy & Junior on my site…but don’t worry, its just one post and it happens to be their first appearance on TV in 1989 or 1991 (not to mention the first song I’ve ever heard from their “repertoire”). Interesting to note how they were packaged and sold from the very start.
“What was it that you went to do in the bushes, Maria Chiquinha?
What was it that you did in the bushes?
I needed to cut wood, Genaro, my love
I needed to cut wood
Who was it that was with you, Maria Chiquinha?
Who was it that was with you?
It was the daughter of Sádona, Genaro, my love
It was the daughter of Sádona
I never saw a woman in trousers, Maria Chiquinha
I never saw a woman in trousers
That was her skirt fastened around her legs, Genaro, my love
That was her skirt fastened around her legs
I never saw a woman with a mustache, Maria Chiquinha
I never saw a woman with a mustache
She was eating jamelão*, Genaro, my love
She was eating jamelão
In September jamelão doesn’t grow, Maria Chiquinha
In September jamelão doesn’t grow”
* – Jamelão in English is Jamul or Jamun and it is a dark, sweet tasting Brazilian fruit.
For their ‘grown-up’ acoustic version, look here.
Línox – Stop Stress
Línox is a 34-year-old Brazilian artist living in Rio de Janeiro who just launched his sophmore solo project named Positivo. A talented musician, he’s been playing the drums since he was 12 and writing songs since he was 22. His talents don’t stop there, Línox is also a producer and the owner of his own label Fibra Records, although he prefers to simply be a man well-connected to words and ideas. He took part in various musical projects along with other partners and eventually making his solo project out of his signature poetry and lyrics. A peaceful guy and a yoga enthusiast, he still takes time to be involved in social causes, such as the Movimento pela Gentileza (Movement for Kindness). Línox tries to incorporate some of this vibe onto his album Positivo, allowing a purely Brazilian state of mind to shine through in such a globalized world. In a simple musical language, influenced by Brazilian Popular Music (MPB), Rock and Reggae among other genres, Línox gets his message across while leaving in the mind of the listener, the sweet flavor of his music.
Here’s one of his hits, Stop Stress.
Cordel do Fogo Encantado – A Successful Mix of Musical Styles
Something that has always captured my attention about Brazil is its perpetual mutation. It is always in movement, always transforming and intermixing. In this process of constant creation, new ways of being, speaking, acting, living, enjoying and suffering emerge. One of the ways in which creation is showing itself is through the blending of musical styles. Its as if the effects globalization were to pertain to one country only, and in a cultural sense, regional and state lines fade away. Its a neverending experiment. For these reasons, I present Cordel.
Cordel do Fogo Encantado is a Brazilian band from Arcoverde, Pernambuco who mix different Brazilian musical genres, such as samba de côco, toré indígena, embolada, and reisado, with pop-rock melodies. The band derives its name from cordel, a type of hand-made illustrated pamphlet literature made by woodcut artists in northeastern Brazil. Cordel do Fogo Encantado is associated with Pernambuco’s Mangue Bit (erroneously called Mangue Beat), a musical movement that is repopularizing traditional northeastern Brazilian folkloric musical genres by mixing them with rock and funk music.
