RE: Musical Alphabet Challenge ~ A fun way to share music
Sorry it was so messy. I can't concentrate on all the markup stuff and blogging aspect. I just noticed one video is missing that i thought put up... here's the missing one. One of my absolute favorite things i've ever seen!
I was wondering if you knew of these people? Haha, it was a little sneaky of me. It's a long tale how i came across this but i remember hearing Bossa Nova as a little kid. Probably Astrud Gilberto singing Girl From Ipanema. It was really popular all over the world in the early 60's. Frank Sinatra did Bossa Nova songs too. Fast forward a bit and i had seen a few movies from books by the writer Jorge Amado. Probably Gabriela... I got one of his books at a used book store and ended up reading all his stories. Maybe i have that part backward haha. I loved his stories so much i went out looking for all the Brazilian music.
I heard about Orfeo Negro the movie and and realized that was were Manha De Carnaval was from. That movie blew my mind and then i looked for luis Bonfa and that led to Baden Powell. I was lucky that Youtube came along and i could find all these artists. And all the music was getting re- released on cd's. Jobim was a big one right? The writer of Garota de Ipanema.
Then i found Elis... and was swept away by the Hurricane, That was one of her nicknames. The first post here is her when she was 19 years old i think and she completely blew away everyone and the rest is history from there . I can't even listen to her without being infinitely happy and sad all at once. I can't Imagine what it was like in Brazil when she died. I read over 100,000 people came out to her funeral procession.
There was so much going on in Brazil then with art and architecture and music i was fascinated by it all
There's so many more like Gal Costa, Caetano Velosa and the Stan Getz Bossa Nova albums are really great too.
Absolutely, I do reckon all the names, I just don't listen... shame on me!
They were all gigantic and inovative! I have no idea what passed in Brazil in the 60's but so much going on, in 64 democracy fell down and the military took the chair. Back then and, even worst, during the 70's all those artists could not express a single thing. All their music had to go through censorchip, and then if approved they could release it. Because of that they had to find crazy ways to express their political visions through creative music and amazing song writing.
This song Calice by Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil is one example of that.
If you'd like to check some more modern brazilian musicians you could listen to Cazuza and Renato Russo, both unfortunately passed away during the 80's, however, they both are considered incredible song writters.
I haven't read the book Gabriela, but it's very famous, pirctured in many soap operas, series, etc.
I'm amazed that you know so much about the brazilian culture!
Here's a few of Amado's books. I know so little of Brazil really. I have never even been there. Most of what i might know came from these books and movies and listening to the music. Looking at photo's... surfing shots and videos. it's just a big beautiful amazing scary wonderful hectic fantasy in my head mostly i guess
Tieta! Duuuuude I remember that one being a soap opera.
I'm sure you know more about brazilian culture then I do, I'm a bastard tha listens to blues/rock mostly. I think you'd freak out in Rio, the beaches, the waves, the malevolence.
There are some bars there where musicians concentrate, incredible 7 string players. Have you ever heard of Yamandu Costa, hes an acoustic guitar player, fantastic.
I haven't heard of him, i will check it out.
When i think of the scary stuff it's like this movie! Whew!
I really like the architecture and the buildings and all the places i think of taking photo's.
The skimboarders from here have been going to Sununga and i have seen some amazing videos of waves there and another spot with super gnarly waves. Itacoatiara. There's lots more beach's i would like to see. That and the amazon river bore wave! I freak on things like malaria and all that. I watched that Herzog movie where they were in the amazon. It was about making the movie. it scared the crap out of me! Haha
ahahhhah that movie is hilarious! I've never been inside a favela. In 2016 I went to Rio for the Olympics and I went to Botafogo to see some Capoeira - one of the oldest Capoeira groups is there. All went smoth, however, the army was on the streets.
I don't know, still have to go there to check for myself how it is. I've heard of loads of foreigners that buy a cheap brick house with the best views on some favelas. There is violence of course, but some places it's possible to enter.
Those waves on the Amazon are called Pororoca, it's possible to surf for tons of time without stopping.
I see the favelas in movies and they just look so incredible. The winding stairways twisting and turning and all the rooftops. Everything stacked up with chase scenes... I think i remember one in a Hulk movie... The views look wild!
They are insane! Just like labyrinth. The best and most beautiful views are from those places. I would send you a video on how the favelas first started, but it's in portuguese =s
I don't speak Portuguese unfortunately but i do enjoy hearing it! Especially in singing.
So this will seem dumb but is the violence and robbery etc. mostly in the Rio area? The movies and sometimes the news make it seem like it's dangerous everywhere. Long Beach where i live has neighborhoods near me that i would never go at night and some areas not even in the daytime. I want to photograph the houses and people who live there but i hesitate to because i don't know if i would be welcome or if the people would see me as a stupid jerk exploiting them. It's a difficult thing to talk about