As Strange and Beautiful As I See: A mix for Ali Cat Magenta

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Viagens 77

The Second Festival of Black & African Arts and Culture of 1977 (FESTAC 77) in Lagos, Nigeria was essentially Africa and the African Diaspora's answer to the World's Fair. While the World's fair fetishized the Exotic "Other" for the consumption of Europeans and Americans, FESTAC 77 was an entirely different cultural project however flawed it may have been. The ideas was to bring Africans, and people of African descent together in order to rediscover their roots as well as establish ties with and within Motherland Africa.

Nigeria's rebel son, Fela Kuti, openly critized and refused to perform at FESTAC 77 because of the Nigerian military dictatorship's sponsership of the event. He organized at counter-FESTAC 77 and many international black luminaries made their way to his Lagos Shrine, such as Stevie Wonder, Gilberto Gil, Bob Marley, Bembeya Jazz, Roy Ayers and Sun Ra.

This eclectic mix is inspired by those legendary cultural jam sessions that occured on the FESTAC 77 main stage and the after hours ones that happened at Fela's Kalakuta Republic and the Shrine.

This is essentially a world music mix from a Brazilian perspective with rhythms and sounds you don't hear on typical Brazilian compilations. It ventures into some lesser known territory such as Samba-Chula, Griot Music, Afro-beat, Frevo, Ciranda, Marchas, Afoxe/Gnawa, Guinea-Bissau Gumbe and more.....enjoy!

"Coral" - Moreno Veloso/Sadjo Djolo Koiate
"Axe Gnawa" - Celso Machado
"Alegria Menina" - Djavan
"Ciranda de Mae Nina" - Alceu Valença & Geraldo Azevedo
"Chuva, Suor e Cerveja"- Caetano Veloso
"Desejo de Amar" - Raimundo Sodre
"Balafon" - Gilberto Gil
"Tira Mao da Minha Xuxa" - Martinho Da Vila
"Estrela Radiante" - Fafa de Belem
"Samba pra Mocas" - Zeca Pagodinho
"Quem não te Conhece é que te compra (Tiro no escuro)"- Xango da Mangueira
"Quando eu vejo a Margarida"- Manezinho Araujo
"Coração Imprudente" - Paulinho da Viola
"Charles Anjo 45" - Jorge Ben e Caetano Veloso
"Saudosa Maloca" - Os Originais Do Samba
"Do Jeito Que Rei Mandou" - Escrete Do Samba
"Som Africano" - Martinho Da Vila
"Clima Quente" - Carlinhos Brown
"O Circo" - Copa 7
"Que Legal" Tim Maia
"La Mulata" Emilio Santiago




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Funky Rio: Rhodes, Sanfonas and Cuicas

Here are some groove heavy tunes that I think you all will enjoy from 1970's Rio. Samba, Batucada, Samba-funk, Funked-up Forro are all in the mix. One of the threads that ties this collection of songs together is the bass playing of Moacyr Albuquerque. Moacyr is one of Brazil's heaviest bass players and recorded with everybody from Gil to Chico Buarque. Check it out and let me know what you think....

"Mambembe"- Chico Buarque
"Jubiaba" - Martinho da Vila
"Tema de Azambuja" - Azambuja e CIA (Chico Anisio e Arnaud Rodrigues)
"Jhony" - Tim Maia
"Agora e Moda" - Rita Lee e Tutti Frutti
"O Gosto do Amor"- Gal Costa e Luiz Gonzaga
"Fofoqueira"- Copa 7
"Juazeiro"- Orlandivo
"Tres Macacos"- Baiano e Novos Caetanos (Chico Anisio e Arnaud Rodrigues)
"Nao Tem Jeito que De Jeito" - Dominguinhos
"Menino Triste"- Raimundo Sodre
"Refavela" - Gilberto Gil
"Chega Mais" - Wando
"Tenha Fé, Pois Amanhã Um Lindo Dia Vai Nascer" - Os Originais Do Samba (J. Ben)
"Malandro e Malandro" - Escrete Do Samba
"A Danca do Cafune" - Zuzuca
"Estilo Classico" - Paulinho e Sua Bateria
"Batucada"- unknown (Songs From Brazil)


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Brazilian Reggae Repetoire

1. Nativus-"Deixa O Menino Jogar"
2. Ponto de Equilibre-"Arvore de Reggae(Reggae Raiz)" (starts 3:27)
3. Ale Muniz-"Maguinha do Saviana"(Starts 7:08)
4. Gilberto Gil-"A Novidade" (Starts 11:00)


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Samba-Funk, Samba and Forro repetoire

Here is a mix of Samba Funk, Samba and Forro for Z'Amico musicians and anyone else who likes good Brazilian tunes.


Samba-Funk or Samba-Rock
1. Wando-"Nega"
2. Djavan-"Maria da Mercedes" (starts at 3:45)
3. Seu Jorge-"Carolina" (starts at 6:33)
4. Jorge Ben-"O namorado da Viuva" (Starts at 11:11)
5. Marisa Monte-"Balanca Pema" (starts at 13:12)

Samba
6. Martinho da Vila-"Disritmia" (Starts at 16:15)
7.Ataulfo Alves- "Sei que e Covardia....Mas"(18:39)
8. Tom Ze- "Augusta, Angelica e Consolacao"(21:42)

Forro
9. Luiz Gonzaga-"Sabia" (25:23)
10.Gilberto Gil-"Juazeiro" (27:48)
11. Eddie-"Retrato de Um Forro (Quando Tu Balanca)(31:21)
12. Seu Jorge- "Suor de Pele Fina" (34:19)
13. Djavan-"Maca de Rosto" (38:04)
14. Falamansa-"Xote dos Milagres" (41:17)

Notes

The music for Martinho da vila's "Disritmia" is pretty involved and can be found at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=g5FuSf3kY7gC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=disritmia+martinho+da+vila+cifra&source=bl&ots=SDAyTS45dZ&sig=mj5xVHhtnHZh0-WmEy73Q1hEEXM&hl=en&ei=83ztSe_zMo6-tAPHyfXgAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q&f=false




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Lullabies For Ellison

A dreamland mix for Ellison, the first child of a good friend of mine

Lenine(Brazil)-O Ultimo Por-Do-Sol
Gal Costa (Brazi)- O Bem do Mar
Forward Kwenda(Zimbabwe)
Baden Powell (Brazil)-'Round Midnight
Air (France)-La Femme D'argent
Marisa Monte (Brazil)-Pelo Tempo Que Durar
Satie(France)- Gnossiennes- 2. Avec Etonnement
John Coltrane (USA)-After the Rain
Marvin Gaye (USA)-After the Dance (Instrumental)
Robert Drasnin (USA)-Chant of the Moon


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Kinshasa, Zaire 1973

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"The Leopards" are the national team of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1974 when Congo DR was known as Zaire between (1971-1997) they were the first black African team to qualify for the World Cup. This song, sung in Lingala by the legendary Trio Madjesi and played in the scintillating Congolese Rhumba style, is in honor of that team.

This song heats up at 2:50, where the band moves into the "sebene". The sebene, from the english word seven, is an instrumental bridge on which one or two musicians develop arpeggios in circular progressions while another improvises around them. The sebene has forever been common to music for Congolese harps, lutes, thumb pianos and xylophones. Congolese rhumba pioneers adapted traditional structures to two or three guitars and borrowed some ideas from the interplay of the Spanish guitar and the trés in Cuban sones and guajiras.

Guitarists such as Franco, Papa Noel, Nico Kassanda and Nico's brother Dechaud—picked up electric guitars and a few tricks from rock 'n' roll, Western swing and Hawaiian music, and heated up and stretched out their sebenes. The typical rumba congo of the '60s and '70s tended to start at a moderate tempo, shift up for the chorus and then hit cruising speed for the sebene.

The contrasting rhythms gave rise to dances like boucher, mossaka, kiri-kiri (which actually slowed down for the sebene) and, in 1968, soukous, which was defined by a particularly emphatic midsong rhythmic change, when the dancers started shaking and the guitarists rocked out. Though three-minute singles still dominated the Congolese record market in the late '60s, bands playing live could extend the sebene indefinitely. In the '70s bands like Franco's T.P.O.K. Jazz and new-school Zaiko Langa Langa brought as many as five guitar parts (basse, accompagnement, mi-composé, mi-solo and solo) into sebenes that sometimes went on for 15 or 20 increasingly exciting minutes, creating what was called beau désordre—"beautiful chaos."

Braun, Ken. Soukous. National Geographic. http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/soukous_790/en_US


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Brasil vs. Zaire in the 1974 World Cup, West Germany.

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