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

WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA

"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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The Mission, San Francisco

Check out pictures of Mission murals and street art by my big sister Ali...

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Northeast, Brazil

Funky, freaky Forro and psychedelic roots music from the northeast of Brazil. The Northeast is the oldest and most mixed up, mashed up part of Brazil and the music reflects this. Central/West African and Tupi-Guarani (the main indigenous group from the area) rhythms and melodies meets Portuguese flute traditions blended with British and American Rock and Funk sensibilities. Usually the sanfona (an accordion like squeeze box) is fairly prominent in this kind of northeastern music but I chose to downplay its importance in this particular mix in the hopes of winning over accordion-phobic listeners.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/rlmtzermyhb/funkyforro.mp3