Alex_1
18 Nov 2002, 01:17 PM
Picked up a few good ones. FINALLY found Gerardo Frisina's cd.... under the jazz section. I guess it fits - all the while I was looking under Italy. I think I have an extra copy - I'd given up on the music stores and ordered one off the net but of course, found one and the order is shipping to my house as I type this. SO it will probably be for sale.
Also picked up CD by Patricia Marx, Brazilian artist (no really!), titled Respirar. Good cd. Will review later on though - outta time.
nicodemus
18 Nov 2002, 01:27 PM
Alex_1, you must have the bottomless money pit or all you own is CDs or you just save all your CD money for Brazilian stuff. :D
Anyway, I need to check a bunch of that stuff out.
I saw the Orquestra de Sao Paulo on Friday. It was quite awesome. They did some Villa-Lobos and some Castelnuovo-Tedesco (featuring the Assad brothers on guitar.)
A review can be found here (http://www.al.com/entertainment/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/entertainment/1037528243215080.xml)
Alex_1
18 Nov 2002, 06:31 PM
Originally posted by nicodemus
Alex_1, you must have the bottomless money pit or all you own is CDs or you just save all your CD money for Brazilian stuff. :D
Anyway, I need to check a bunch of that stuff out.
I saw the Orquestra de Sao Paulo on Friday. It was quite awesome. They did some Villa-Lobos and some Castelnuovo-Tedesco (featuring the Assad brothers on guitar.)
A review can be found here (http://www.al.com/entertainment/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/entertainment/1037528243215080.xml)
It's my weakness man! Seriously though, it's just my big time hobby. Collecting the tracks and tunes and rare gems. It's like a challenge to find the soundtracks. With me it really started with hearing bossa nova from my mother. Then my father has a huge vinyl collection (like father like son) and I got into the music with him. After collecting a few compilations, I had to have the older bossa nova/jazz samples and there you go.
I'm telling you, what started out as only getting Jobim, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto went into "re-discovering" the whole MPB with Elis Regina, Milton Nascimento, Chico Buarque and Gal Costa sound. I was even into some of the Brazilian rock, but one day I came across Brasil 2Mil, took a chance and from there is really when I fell in love with the new sound of Brazil. Daude, Andrea Marquee, Suba, Smoke City, Lenine, Fernanda Abreu... I had to hear more man. From there, I went to the Six Degrees label, and heard more of Suba, Zuco 103 and learned that Bebel Gilberto had a new album coming out.
It's really been history ever since that comp - well... that one went hand in hand with "Jet Society" and "Boss-A-Troniq" to be honest. Then later on came Brazilectro series, Break & Bossa series, etc. melded with my love of electronica and Compost records (Glucklich, Jazzanova, Truby Trio). From Ian Pooley to Jaffa to Nair Candia to Orlandivo. What is most amazing is that it's not so erradic after all - Compost, Nicola Conte, Soulstance, Towa Tei, Bebel, Tom & Joyce, Suba, all of these artists usually do work/worked with one another at some point. Through time I have taken chances and actually wound up with real duds (Brasil 5000, Quango's Brazilified) but with experience, I don't know - you find the ways to get the artists that will most likely be good and know which artists to look for (Conte, De Souza, Abreu, Marquee, Daude, and now... Patricia Marx).
Enough with my rambling. lol Once I get started talking about the music it is hard to stop.
The concert was brilliant though, eh? THe review makes it look live
nicodemus
19 Nov 2002, 10:46 AM
Originally posted by Alex_1
It's my weakness man! Seriously though, it's just my big time hobby. Collecting the tracks and tunes and rare gems. It's like a challenge to find the soundtracks.
I'm exactly the same way, except my passion extends into every form of music on the planet (much to my wife's and my wallet's dismay) :D I love it all: Brazilian, bluegrass, Indian, classical, rock, Chinese, Persian, Bulgarian, etc, etc, etc. I've ordered stuff from all over the place and my record/CD collection kind of always makes people scratch their heads at all of the oddities in there. I've got this 8 CD box set of Chinese guqin music (a zither considered by the literati to be the instrument of gentlemen and scholars) that doesn't have a word of English in it. People just kind of look at it, and are puzzled. I've got tons of things like that too, Greek, Okinawan, etc.
Enough with my rambling. lol Once I get started talking about the music it is hard to stop.
I'm the same way.
The concert was brilliant though, eh? THe review makes it look live
Yeah, it was really good. It is interesting to me how even in symphonic music, the Brazilians just have to make it jump. You could get up and dance to it.