Modern Brazil - s/d

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by revivalism I meant that the mpb sound on his album has a "retro" tinge to my ears, just listen to the strings

there's probably a good/boring explanation (apart from the quality of the material) for why this particular record is getting so much exposure

corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 10:53 (five months ago) link

I've enjoyed the album but my immediate thought was how close it sounds to Clube da Esquina and how much it relies on arrangements when I rather expect a strong vocal personality and some kind of messing-up with the formula from modern MPB. So my uneducated guess is that it gets exposure from precisely not following the program.

Nabozo, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 13:09 (five months ago) link

Roge's music definitely harks back to some sort of golden period of MPB/samba, but to me it goes back further than Clube da Esquina. I feel it sounds more like late 60s albums'Travessia' or 'Milton Nascimento'. I hear bits of 60s Caetano and Chico Buarque in there too.

giraffe, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 13:37 (five months ago) link

Roge album is produced by Thomas Brenneck , best known for playing guitar with retro soul Sharon Jones and producing for Daptone. Plus Arthur Verocai did string arrangements and he’s best known for his 1970s work.

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:46 (five months ago) link

I'm a dummy when it comes to hearing about recent MPB so I'm just the target for the Roge album crossover, I guess.

Chris L, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:00 (five months ago) link

xp i will admit that that's compelling evidence for calling this a "retro" project, and i certainly don't mind anyone thinking of it that way

but for whatever reason i think of this basically as excellent MPB (so my 'otm' above was really more about the first part of fpsa's post)

budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:10 (five months ago) link

two months pass...

Seeing good reviews for film documentary "They Shot the Piano Player" about the life of and disappearance of Brazilian samba/ bossa nova/ jazz pianist Francisco Tenorio Jr on tour in Argentina in 1976 at age 34. Some big name Brazilian musicians are heard in this doc talking about him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQwajCDIwcg

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:08 (two months ago) link

yeah, keep meaning to see that

The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 17:41 (two months ago) link

one month passes...

https://fabianodonascimento.bandcamp.com/album/ohayou

very chill, not too brazilian vibe tbh, might also work in Ambient/post/nu/new-age jazz - S/D

corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 06:50 (one month ago) link

Yeah, he's amazing, got to see him live last year, played solo with some pedals and loopers and such... really beautiful music...

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 19:33 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

not modern but i just got served something by the algo and for once i was v pleased

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU9YOiDCKi8

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 May 2024 08:51 (two weeks ago) link


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