Is "Gil e Jorge" the most dumbfoundingly beautiful album ever made?

Stoned acoustic jam sesh w/bassist and percussionist. Songs tend to be in the 10-minute range. Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben egg each other on, play can-you-top-this with choice catalog selections, achieve nirvana.

I vote "probably."

see also: Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben - "Gil E Jorge"

i have not heard this album but based upon the time i saw gil in concert i voted "why not?"

and as Matt points out on that thread, it's really more like "drunk acoustic jam sesh," but you know, that's great too. (xpost)

Jordan, you must must must MUST hear this record.

you and every person alive

I'll leave this to y'all, if you care, but do give a listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0R0GfvXn8

this album fuckin kills. everyone should listen to it.

It's really fun to play at a party and watch people turn around and say, "What?"

this together with João Gilberto's White Album are probably my two favorite summer albums

I hadn't heard this before. Wow.

i've heard most of the better known albums by these two but still not heard this.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

This is pretty cool, but I guess I'm a philistine after a track or two at a time I'm like "ok, when is the band gonna show up, guys?"

philistine BECAUSE after...

this is an absolute go-to summer record for me

meu gloroioso saooo cristavaoooooo
amemmmmmm

yesssssssss

another poll could be which dudes songs on this do you prefer, gil or jorge (the latter, pra mim)

i understand comments abt being impatient with this record but its hypnotic and repetitive qualities are so much of the appeal.

tbh this record underscores what annoys me about "tropicalia" proper--these guys (veloso too) were so fuckin' good they were basically the last dudes ever who needed adornment.

anything Jorge Ben does is so dope.

srsly. africa brasil is g.o.a.t. stuff to be sure.

I'm trying to resist the urge to spam this thread with youtube embeds... Ben is really well represented.
Also, Os Originais do Samba is some hot shit.

I like this album, but is it just me or does it sound like the guy's singing "Nigga!" a lot in track two? I mean, I know it's really "Nega," but still. Not gonna play this record in front of the missus, no sir.

no dude it's def "nega." i mean knowing that in advance how could anyone be offended. also have u heard gil's album version of "nega"?

I know he SAYS "Nega" and the song is called "Nega" and everything; it's just weird how much it sounds like "nigga" and how easy it is to mishear it. Especially since the word "nega" is spoken about 10,000 times throughout the song.

yeah i'm sure people will be offended by a black brazilian dude singing in portuguese a word that sounds a little bit like nigga. So offensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efr4OOh8y0Q

one of a handful of albums that, whenever I listen to it, I think it's my favorite album ever.

OMG snrub u tell it like it is

jurujurujurujurujurubeba

i kinda only wanna hear my Brazilian music with female singers, but i will check this out

I'm trying to resist the urge to spam this thread with youtube embeds

Please spam this thread with YouTube embeds.

^^^ yes please do that its the only reason i'm here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL-gY9Y6p3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSlnTUJ8JCo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBJSkbtUc44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRHaFl0b8Vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiDJr6duECw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_odKLzlFlC0

Re: the Nega thing: It really makes you think he's singing Nigga especially because ALL THE OTHER LYRICS ARE IN ENGLISH.

oh ffs

can we fucking delete the nega/nigga comments which are disrupting a beautiful thread??

i don't say this lightly but u people are being retarded.

I didn't mean to drag us back into that when the focus should be on the beautiful music; I'm just listening for the first time and it definitely is something you (I) notice.

aka I don't know why I phrased/capitalized that so argumentatively.

Awesome record.

Voted 'probably'. 'Taj Mahal' is probably my favourite ever tune to bellow along to - I'd say this was one of my favourite versions, except that I don't think there are any bad versions.

rod stewart "do ya think i'm sexy" melody is a bit of a buzzkill

I've always liked the first minute of every song on this album but then I get kind of annoyed

Just bought this for €10 from ebay on the strength of this thread. I know I'm going to love this.

voted probably

this album is great

Oh god, I believe it.

Quit and go back to the soap factory.

"Jurubeba," 0:01: OMG yes, my favorite by far; pulse jumps.

Let me take this opportunity to note that apart from Copacabana Mon Amour (imagine the album this thread is about with all the self-indulgence but none of the yield) every other Gil album released before this one is totally ridiculous. That period stands up with anybody's, ever.

3:27: WOW OK THAT was a clinker.

4:34: Both men break the syllables down to letters, stutter, prepare.

4:45: Jorge yells. Here we go.

5:24: . . . well, maybe not quite yet. Gotta vamp.

5:52: NOW we have it. "JURUBEBA! JURUBEBA! JURUBEBA! JURUBEBA!"

6:20: "Juru! Juru! Juru! Juru!" faster than anything you've heard in your life.

6:55: God this is just thrilling as fuck.

7:33: I think I just saw a tree fly by my window, figuratively speaking.

8:40: Gil speaks in low rumble, Ben croons in grainy falsetto: they're imitating each other.

9:35: Precise low-tenor/high-baritone duet; please play this for another hour, guys.

10:47: Whew.

"Quem Mandou (Pe Na Esrada)," 0:20: Now that we've had the fuck of our lives we can go get breakfast.

2:48: Gil does sound a little gamy here, I'll admit.

4:06: Elastic, falling-down drunk, sounding like a Warner Bros. cat in flirt mode.

5:40: Both these guys are just so effortlessly dramatic.

6:20: This is what I always hope chanson sounds like.

"Taj Mahal," 0:08: One of those songs that does not build up to its commanding presence: it's there immediately.

0:57: Gil goes high and sets the walking wire.

1:53: Gil tosses off a loop-de-loop every singer alive would kill to perfect.

3:46: Gil flattens his voice the way Frank Viola threw a change.

5:25: I kind of hope these aren't real words he's singing.

6:35: Ben blows through own voice, he's going so hard.

8:27: Jesus, what a couple of lunatics.

9:24: I totally get why Ben didn't want this released. I wouldn't want it released if I'd made it. I wouldn't be able to hear it. "That thing I did that I barely remember . . . ugh." Someone I know whose writing helped transform my thinking has this reaction to his old stuff that he wants to disappear forever. The fact that Ben allowed himself to be talked into it is one of his great artistic decisions.

11:50: Lovely flamenco flourish to finish.

I swear I posted in this thread just a minute ago. What thread did I post to??? Anyway, the clips I'm hearing are pretty good. And what's going on in here?

"Morre O Burro, Fica O Homem," 1:00: Ben on lead, Gil on backup scat syllables; they must have worked this out in advance.

I had a whim, sorry.

I figure it's OK to hijack my own thread.

3:34: The "da-da-da-da!"s just sparkle.

5:06: They're back to carving circles around one another in midair, but this still feels more deliberately arranged than the others. Still flies, of course.

"Essa E Pra Tocar No Radio," 0:00: This would lead off any other album.

0:26: The bassist, Wagner, stops following (like a bloodhound), steps out, gets funky, countergrooves.

2:54: "1-2-3-4!" in Portuguese, I think; Gil is such a natural.

4:13: He could scream, too.

Somebody distract him with a Portuguese dictionary.

haha

5:58: Fades out, a rarity.

"Filhos De Gandhi," 2:12: This album is great and I'll stop now. Sorry and thanks.

Just say no to the killer weed, kids.

no the most beatiful album is construção by chico buarque.

i was just listening to chico this morning on my ipod.

this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncBjLOVR4rg

and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcyV-SgZnGQ

also antonio carlos jobim made some amazingly beautiful music.

matos fwiw i enjoyed yr blazed liveblog.

jurujurujurujurujurujurubeba

I just bought this album on the strength of this thread. Thank you, ILX!

The options on this poll are very much in the spirit of this album. I can't say I listen to this all the time, but every so often it's the best thing ever.

jurujurujurujurujurujurubeba

― The Sorrows of Young Jeezy (jim), Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:27 PM (3 months ago)

alright im getting high every time i listen to this