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João Bosco – João Bosco (1973)

  December 11, 2020 ,


João Bosco – João Bosco
Original release 1973
2003 reissue RCA / BMG France 74321 965032

 

In 1972, João Bosco only had a split 7-inch single under his name as a recording artist, but the fact that the other side of that 7″ was from Tom Jobim should tell you the high regard he was held in even at this stage. That same year, Elis Regina would record her first Bosco/Blanc-authored song, Bala Por Pala, and songs from the prolific writing duo would feature prominently on her records for the rest of the decade.  That song also appears here, on João Bosco’s debut album, in a version that is more exciting and, well, smoothly frenetic in a way that is distinctly Bosco’s. Continue reading

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Dora Lopes – Enciclopédia da Gíria (1957 Mocambo)

  June 7, 2019 , ,

Dora Lopes – Enciclopédia da Gíria
Mocambo / Rozenblit 1957

Is this a Pride Month post?  Sort of, because Dora Lopes was possibly the first “out” singer in Brazilian popular music.   But this record was  before anyone outside Rio scenesters knew or cared about her sexuality, and even before she was the proprietor of O Caixotinho, one of Rio’s first lesbian nightclubs that served the Copacabana area beginning in the second half of the 60s.  This 1957 album is notable for other reasons, like being released on the small Recife imprint Mocambo, and for the fact that Dora gets composer credits on all but a couple songs here in a era when women songwriters were not the norm.  The songs and arrangements fit more in the jazz-samba world than the nascent bossa nova scene. Continue reading

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Jards Macalé – Jards Macalé (1972) (Polysom reissue)

  October 5, 2018

Jards Macalé – Jards Macalé
Vinyl rip in 24 bit 96 khz | Art at  300 dpi
24 bit 96 khz – 927 MB | 16-bit 44.1 khz 235 MB
Polysom 33124-1| Released 2012 (Orig.1972)  | Brazilian / Post-Tropicália / Samba / Soul – Funk

This record seems to fit the mood right now.   It is, somehow, a demonstration of how to remain calm while everything falls apart around you.  Brazil is very close to electing an right-wing extremist so repugnant that I don’t even want to name him here, and the US senate is poised to send the definitive reaffirmation, backed by a few thousand years of patriarchy, that women are still the property of men and do not deserve to be heard in the public sphere.  There might not be anything specifically political about this record, but it captures a kind of quiet perseverance, wrapped in melancholy, that are in so many of the best records from this period – the worst, most repressive years of Brazil’s military dictatorship. Continue reading

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Almir Guinéto – Almir Guinéto (1986) (RGE 308.6118)

  February 9, 2018 ,

Almir Guinéto
Almir Guinéto
1986 RGE 308.6118

A1 Caxambu (Bidubi/Jorge Neguinho/Zé Lobo/Élcio do Pagode)
A2 Mel Na Boca (David Correa)
A3 Superman (Almir Guinéto/Adalto Magalha)
A4 Cenário (Almir Guinéto/Adalto Magalha/Capri)
A5 Quem Me Guia (Beto Sem Braço/Serginho Meriti)
A6 Lama Nas Ruas (Almir Guinéto/Zeca Pagodinho)
B1 Conselho (Adilson Bispo/Zé Roberto)
B2 Santo Errado (Almir Guinéto/Adalto Magalha/Capri)
B3 Pra Que Tanta Marra? (Arlindo Cruz/Sombinha/Acyr Marques)
B4 Flecha Do Cupido (Almir Guinéto/Beto Sem Braço/Guará da Empresa)
B5 Feito Aguardente (Almir Guinéto/Adalto Magalha)
B6 Hoje (Almir Guinéto/Luverci Ernesto) Continue reading

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Flabbergasted Freeform Radio Hour # 8

  April 19, 2014

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FLABBERGASTED FREEFORM No.8
April 2014

Well it’s about time for another podcast.  I hope you enjoy it.  You can listen to it on either Mixcloud , or get yourself a direct download from these links.

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Playlist

Lord Nelson – Garrot Bounce
Alejandro Duran – Cumbia Costeña
Latin Fever – Chirrin Chirran
Sly and The Family Stone – Jigsaw Puzzle
Chubby Checker – Gypsy
Gabor Szabo – Theme From Valley Of The Dolls
Shorty Rogers and His Giants – Chega de Saudade
João
Gilberto, Miúcha, and Stan Getz – Isáura
Conjunto
Ajiruteua De Marapanim – Da Cacaia
Blue Mitchell – Flat Backing

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Nelson Sargento – Primavera
James Moody – You Got To Pay
Paco de
Lucia – Quizás, quizás, quizás
Jackson do
Pandeiro – Nortista quatrocentão
Raul Seixas, Sergio Sampaio, Edy Star – Quero Ir
Isaac  Hayes –
Chocolate Chip
Alberta Hunter – Sugar
Prince Buster – Don’t Throw Stones (or Rude Rude Rudie)
Olodum –
Vinheta Cuba-Brasil
The J.B.s – The Grunt Pt. 1
Golden Gate Quartet – Same Train
Som Três – Oh Happy Day
Maysa – Quizás, quizás, quizás
Ijahman Levi – Are We A Warrior

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