Tag Archives: Afro-Brazilian

If one were to consider a geographical area in Brazil that resembles the Mississippi Delta with regards to creating a lion’s talk about of influential performers, an excellent case could possibly be made for the spot of Bahia in Brazil’s northeast. The set of Bahian performers can be formidable: Caetano …

Bahia Dark was a short-lived music group featuring Brazilian vocalist, songwriter, percussionist, guitarist and vocalist Carlinhos Dark brown and his ten-piece drum outfit, Olodum. Joined up with by American jazz music artists including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Bernie Worrell, Henry Threadgill and maker Expenses Laswell, the group documented one memorable …

Beth Carvalho was created within the working class suburb of Gamboa but grew up in the centre class South Part. At age seven, she was carrying out in novice displays in a number of Carioca radios, just like the Nacional. At exactly the same time, she researched musical theory in …

Having had a promising starting among the big voices of MPB, Simone has recorded a lot more than 31 albums, increasingly abandoning the greater activist repertory of compositions by João Bosco/Aldir Blanc, Geraldo Vandré, Chico Buarque, and Milton Nascimento and only mainstream romantic tunes, with which she’s enjoyed international achievement. …

The riotous party music played by international ensemble Fumaça Preta (pronounced “Foomassa Pretta” and meaning “Dark Smoke”) combines deep, fuzzy psychedelic funk inspired by from Brazilian macumba, batacuda, and latter-day tropicalia to James Dark brown, analog electronica, Turkish psychedelia, garage rock, and post-punk. Through his many moves, Portuguese-Venezuelan manufacturer and …