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by Zseni 07/11/2007, 3:11pm PDT |
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Fullofkittens wrote:
I am currently deeply in love with Brasilian music.
Yesterday I made my wife a mix CD that had Joao Gilberto on it. =(
Me n' Brazil, we do not always see eye to eye. But of the things we do see eye to eye on, Chico Buarque is number one.
Here are some other things we agree on:
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Elizete Cardoso
Joao Gilberto
Os Afros Sambas (Baden-Powell & Vincius de Moraes) {----- this is another album you should hunt down as long as you're taking advice from me
As you can see, this is a short list with a strict delimitation in time and space. I'm not imaginative.
Chico is the king. He and Scott Walker were releasing parallel albums in the late sixies - Scott 1, 2, 3, 4; Chico's were titled Volume 1, 2, 3, 4. Almost the same years, very strange. The two artists share a congruency of treatment and subject, and several musical influences, but just between you and me, Chico Buarque is better than Scott Walker. He's better than Scott in the same way that Stanislaw Lem is better than Jorge Luis Borges: he isn't writing as a monk, he doesn't write about a neutered world. Everything, music and lyrics, is voluptuously animated: he is sexual, political, bitterly indirect (the result of censorship.) And of course where Scott was releasing Til The Band Comes In, Chico was releasing Construção. The one shortfall is the voice: Chico sings fine, he's perfect for the music, but he's not in the same league as - that profound, resonant, melancholy Scott Walker.
Anyway, if you're picking up Chico albums generally, Volume 4 is my second favorite. Don't miss his two albums with Ennio Morricone, either.
If I think about it really hard, I can hear Scott singing Chico's songs. It is perfect. |
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RECOMMEND ME SOME MUSIC! by Zseni 07/03/2007, 11:51am PDT 
Kitchen Counterculture? Laslo Albritton? Seventine? Tyranid? NT by Strada a Firenze? 07/03/2007, 1:14pm PDT 
I will also check these out! NT by Zseni 07/03/2007, 9:17pm PDT 
I think you made these up. :( by Zseni 07/08/2007, 12:48am PDT 
Mission Accomplished! by Anonytard up up and AWAAAAAAaaayyyy 07/11/2007, 6:08pm PDT 
Princess Superstar - My Machine by Worm 07/03/2007, 2:49pm PDT 
I now think CEO is a better album. by Worm 07/05/2007, 10:05pm PDT 
Re: RECOMMEND ME SOME MUSIC! by Fullofkittens 07/03/2007, 5:29pm PDT 
Thanks FoK! I hope the internet has this available for my thieving! NT by Zseni 07/03/2007, 9:17pm PDT 
The internet had these available for my theiving! I trade you! by Zseni 07/08/2007, 6:23pm PDT 
This shit sucks and is gay like a night elf of ancient ancestry. NT by Jhoh Cable :( 07/08/2007, 7:39pm PDT 
Go back to bed, honey. Auntie will bring you a glass of water soon, mmkay? by Zseni 07/08/2007, 9:35pm PDT 
high five, air guitar NT by Duh Gay Ball Bruddas 07/08/2007, 10:29pm PDT 
This wasn't secretly me making fun of zensy (it was someone else). by Jhoh Cable o_O 07/11/2007, 12:38pm PDT 
I stopped downloading music but I may have to buy that second one. by Fullofkittens 07/08/2007, 11:04pm PDT 
Re: I stopped downloading music but I may have to buy that second one. by Zseni 07/11/2007, 3:11pm PDT 
Stick a fork in music, it's done. NT by music fork sticker inner 07/11/2007, 3:45pm PDT 
Blame it all on my roots I showed up in boots and ruined szense's black tie affa NT by music fork sticker inner 07/11/2007, 3:46pm PDT 
more bossa nova by Fullofkittens 07/11/2007, 7:28pm PDT 
I hate to do this by Fullofkittens 08/26/2007, 9:15am PDT 
Thank you, now I can't get "deepa deepa da" out of my head NT by Entropy Stew 08/26/2007, 3:02pm PDT 
How can I download some of your music, Zseni? I trust it will be very good. NT by Quentin Beck 07/03/2007, 7:12pm PDT 
Soulseek, Bit Torrent. by Zseni 07/03/2007, 9:16pm PDT 
This is why music is dead. NT by Jhoh Cable o_O 07/03/2007, 9:38pm PDT 
This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but ch-check it out. by Jerry Whorebach 07/04/2007, 1:02am PDT 
Re: This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but ch-check it out. by Zseni 07/04/2007, 8:13am PDT 
No NT by Jerry Whorebach 07/04/2007, 9:29pm PDT 
I recommend Rock Band by Fussbett 07/04/2007, 5:01am PDT 
Re: RECOMMEND ME SOME MUSIC! by Jhoh Cable o_O 07/06/2007, 5:21am PDT 
For those still on the fence by Jerry Whorebach 07/06/2007, 5:55am PDT 
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