Brazilian Music Appreciation Thread

Well, I've just finished to read Caetono Veloso's book "Tropical Truth"... Very interesting and instructive, especially when explaining the importance of popular culture, poetry, cinema and politics on the Brazilian musical scene... Highly recommended!

Atkingani wrote: andrea wrote: Well, I've just finished to read Caetono Veloso's book "Tropical Truth"... Very interesting and instructive, especially when explaining the importance of popular culture, poetry, cinema and politics on the Brazilian musical scene... Highly recommended! http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0306812819/ref=s9_asin_image_1/104-7429411-5937533?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=00J6E1TDE41AFBRQ1S0N&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240801&pf_rd_i=507846   Now I recommend you coming here, andrea, to check the places & people cited by Veloso!

@ andrea: Caetano Veloso is sometimes (or many times, according to others) "pretentious, luring and self-indulgent", ops... isn't it what outsiders say about prog?  In fact, Veloso collects fans and foes easily with his professoral posture. Probably he doesn't like prog-rock but he was neatly influenced by the genre; anyway, his partner Gilberto Gil was more influenced by prog (at least in the late 60s & early 70s) altogether with Mutantes and other names of the Tropicalismo movement.

However, the main progressive influence IMO can be felt in the Clube da Esquina movement, led by Milton Nascimento and friends, which was extremely fertile in the 70s, echoing until today. This influence came mainly from symphonic prog although folk-prog & jazz-fusion have their quotas too.

Edited by Atkingani - May 27 2007 at 14:23

Atkingani wrote: @ Progger58: great list (however I don't know Duofel and Hélio Delmiro and cannot remember Gudin's work * ).

I managed to get this album

I have my doubts, he's definitely progressive, no doubt; but we're discussing how much "rock" there is in his music to consider him a prog rock artist; at least from what I heard there's not much rock, but perhaps there are more rocky albums in his somewhat extense discography.

Egberto Gismonti's early stuff is very progressive indeed. "Academia de Danças", for example (released in 1975), is genuinely progressive rock at the best!!

Atkingani wrote: JG, Gismonti is being evaluated to be included in the ProgArchives!   EDIT: by the way, I'm really sure that the Club da Esquina movement led by Milton Nascimento & friends, in the 70s and 80s are "real prog". Check this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW0oVxWYOA8

Those forms of prog were also somewhat influenced by rock (whatever rock is anyway, perhaps also measured by the type of instrumentation) what I know is that from what I heard Egberto is not exactly jazz-rock artist but more of a world fusion/latin fusion artist with some avant and symphonic tendencies, I have to listen further though, because I only heard about three albums by him only. I think that Airto could also merit being here, because he used jazz-rock formatting many times during his career, but he also is a figure in world music and world jazz.

Atkingani wrote: Probably a surprise for many... the most Brazilian of the musical instruments: the 10-string guitar (the "viola caipira" or simply "viola"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnKXb_Ywk8g&mode=related&search=   The "viola" fever is so great that there are many orchestras composed only with this instruments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ter7FWSJsNU   Man, I love this sound!!!