btw, if you're in the US you can listen to Edward's pick on grooveshark: http://grooveshark.com/#/album/+1978+A+Banda+Do+Z+Pretinho/6145557.
― rob, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
cool, thx for that! it can be hard to find, even on the internets.
translation of track 4 is "where's the penalty?", another classic futbol song lol
― the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Okay this Ben album is seriously great. I should have listened to you last year (I am "elephant rob" upthread).
side b is a thing of perfection
That is the truth. At first I wasn't sure about a whole album of slightly syrupy disco-samba, but the second half moves away from that to a more relaxed, Tabua-ish sound.
― rob, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
glad you are digging it!
I really don't understand the sequencing there. the back half is rife with his trademark beautiful languorous choruses but I'm not sure if anybody gets far enough into it to find out.
tracks 1, 5, 7-11 are all first rate. even some of the clangers have grown on me over time, tho. is it just me or does "bom dia, boa tarde" sound like he's trying to channel veloso?
― the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
"Languorous" is otm. And yes, "bom dia..." does have a downbeat, restrained quality to it that does sound a bit like Veloso.
― rob, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
turns out "bom dia, boa tarde" is in the fine tradition of ben recycling his own material, an earlier version is on 1967's o bidu silencio no brooklin.
looks like "amante amado" might be a veloso cover? or did he cover ben? internet is failing me but either way ben's version is way better...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSjflObz-LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws3r24Uhu74
― the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
It sounds more like a Ben song than Veloso to me, especially the way the lines end in that drifty way I associate strongly with JB.
― rob, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
Paulo Bagunca "...E A Tropa Maldita" 1974http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQskStan7du5BpcP21K4R5cCvhzP2gwHkBKDOCEHGGxAi4yMSY_JQ
I know next to nothing about this record or the performer(s) that made it. What I do love about it is the combo of acoustic instruments and hard-driving, loose-limbed Brazilian funk rhythms. The guitars are bright and dense, the melodies sundazed and meandering, the percussion is fantastic, and there are flashes of horn parts, moog, and other great touches. it's like the perfect cross section of funk, folk, and samba to my ears. It bears some similarity to Tim Maia's 70s stuff (altho not as firmly rooted in American R&B) and Jorge Ben (altho not as pop-savvy or concisely arranged). Kinda hard to find any info (in English) about it, if anyone has any insights please chime in.
― winoa ryder sexes creatures of the night (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
sweet
― snowball's epc in hell (Edward III), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
so this paulo bagunca album is really good
in some weird way it reminds of new zealand pop stuff, in that it's simultaneously droney and driving and tuneful
but yeah I'm liking it a lot!
― police steady askin me who did the plussin (Edward III), Friday, 1 July 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
looks like the whole thing is on youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmt2YbI1Ajk
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 July 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLUHqMfBsYI
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 July 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Any recommendations (old or new albums)?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 March 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link