2:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Music · Comments Off
20 May 2008
I was marveling that next week is the unofficial start of summer (it doesn’t feel like it yet). With the summer comes new, good musica to listen to at the beach, pool, or bbq. Today Six Degrees Records released the debut album Sonantes. This year Brazil celebrates 50 years of bossa nova and the debut album of this Såo Paolo musical collective features some of the newer well known voices of the genre like Céu The album was recorded not in a traditional studio setting, but rather mostly at home and the entire 10 track cd overall is sexy, in a moody languorous way, one that reminds me of sitting with a caipiriña, thinking of a lost love or plotting my next conquest.
It’s a low key album that doesn’t scream “listen to me” but rather serves as the perfect soundtrack for lazy summer days and nights. Some of the songs like, Miopia and Toque de Coito featuring Siba, sound sad, as if full of longing, even with it’s electric guitar and synthesizer sounds.
One of the most fun tracks on the album is Mambobit, which is “poppy” and nostalgic and I dare you to try and not move with Quilombo Te Espera.
Start your summer 2008 playlist with Sonantes.
2:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Celebrities|Features|history|Music|Raices · 1 Comment
31 Mar 2006
Raíces is a VL Friday feature saluting Latino music icons of days gone by.
I am not a musician, but as a different kind of artist, music is very important to me. The idea for Raíces comes from that; and the fact that I found that many of the Latino musicians that have most impacted my life are largely unknown by the US Latino population.
One of my most cherished artists is the late Elis Regina. An icon in Brazil, she is mostly known here in the United States because of her bossa nova recordings and collaborations with Antonio Carlos Jobim. This is unfortunate, because her range went way beyond bossa nova; indeed, some of her more inspiring music is much darker, with her voice giving life to the work of some of Brazil’s most talented poets, dealing with the topics of social complacency, politics, hopelessness and of course, love.
1:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Media|Music|Newspapers · 4 Comments
28 Feb 2006
As evidence of the fact that mainstream media continues to see Latinos as retrograde, this snippet from a very “surprised” article about the Latino techno movement:
Electronic and Latin music would seem to reside at polar ends of the music spectrum. One is precise, the other passionate. One is the brutalist Bauhaus beats of Kraftwerk, the other is the languid romanticism of the Buena Vista Social Club.
Why Buena Vista Social Club? Why is that the quintessential “Latin music”?
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