Joy From Brazil: Gryner E Jardim

Rafael Gryner e Leandro Jardim -
Sementes Musicais Para Um Mundo Cibernético (Seeds For A Musical Cybernetic World)

 

Sementes Musicais Para um Mundo Cibernético by Gryner e Jardim

 Download from Musicoteca or Um Que Tenha 

Just as the seed needs water, the song requires a listener. Like a small grain that blossoms into a tree, the song desires to transcend its own brevity. Inspired by these thoughts we invite you to listen to our E.P. Six songs that require no more than 16 minutes of attention, because they wish to be perceived as an integral work. A work that, worry not, intends to suit these hectic times we live in. So faced with the fleeting time in our world comes the significance of being brief.

Here we find ourselves on the web, contemplating all that is cyber and governs our world today. This is the source of inspiration for our arrangements, instrumentation, chants and effects.

And so our task, to get the rawness of a seed, those that grow into trees to turn into guitars, mix it with the electronic, virtual, digital world, appearing ever so fiercely to compete with our notion of reality - and there you go – these are our proposed aesthetics.

An aesthetic in service art itself, the art of songwriting, the art of brazilian songwriting, passionately invoking everything that was done up till now, and why not? moving on.

So now we open this door, reach out a hand, and invite you to witness our way of re-processing old emotions, those that happily afflict everyone on this world, and enjoy these seeds which hopefully will flourish within the listener. 

 -- Rafael Gryner e Leandro Jardim

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Music License: © All Rights Reserved
Artist Location: Brazil

New Sounds of São Paulo, Brazil

Sounds and Colours is a magazine promoting South American music and culture. Their compilation Nossa, Cara! New Sounds of São Paulo showcases some of the best sounds coming from Sao Paulo.

Sounds and Colours writes:

Nossa, Cara! New Sounds of São Paulo is a labour of love highlighting what we think are some of the most exciting artists to be found anywhere in the world, never mind stacked up on top of each other in the same city.

Nossa, Cara! New Sounds of São Paulo in partnership with Brasil Music Exchange features a wide variety of music being made in São Paulo today. M. Takara 3, Psilosamples and Guizado represent some of the exciting electronic music coming out of the city. Chankas and Bodes e Elefantes make music which has a fearless approach to sonic exploration. The sounds of north-eastern Brazil are represented by Iara Rennó, Juçara Marçal e Kiko Dinucci and Metá-Metá (featuring Juçara and Kiko with added Thiago França). R. Brandao and Lurdez da Luz show the way forward for São Paulo hip-hop. They are joined by Tulipa, Bruno Morais and Lulina, who continue the MPB tradition in delightfully absurd ways, Karina Buhr, Juliana R and Bárbara Eugênia who bring a number of new ideas to the Brazilian cantora tradition, and Rafael Castro, who confounds with each new slice of dexterous folk or rock he puts to tape. 

Nossa, Cara! New Sounds of São Paulo is available from the Sounds and Colours website and from Bandcamp.

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Music License: © All Rights Reserved
Artist Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Cape Verde Traditional Music

Mendes Brothers Ramiro and João are a duo from Cape Verde, the nation of islands in the Atlantic 350 miles off the coast of Africa. They are accomplished musicians, and Ramiro has written songs for fellow celebrity performers, such as the legendary Cesária Évora.

Among the Mendes Brothers recordings shared on Jamendo is their 1995 album Bandera. In his Allmusic review of the album, Mark Romano writes:

Bandera is an old and sacred Cape Verdean music style that has been preserved for over 500 years. The music is performed exclusively during the saints' festivals. There are two or more drummers, an entourage of call-and-response chanters, and masked dancers. Bandera is set on a beautifully syncopated 3/4 rhythmic pattern with a very simple and repetitive melodic structure.

This is the first time that bandera was transposed from its traditional music format to contemporary expression. The brothers have interpreted this ancient music and have done it admirably. With updated technology they have brought this music to a wider audience. The tracks are deeply rooted in the traditional rock bed of West Africa but also swing with a thoroughly modern intensity. The semba/ coladera tracks combine Cape Verdean coladera dance rhythms with Angolan semba. The mixture results in extended fiery marathons, percussion-laden with riffing horns. This is Cape Verdean music at its finest, with plenty of percussion and bass accompanied by call-and-response vocals and some great chops on the horns. Highly recommended.

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Music License: © Creative Commons BY-SA
Artist Location: Cabo Verde (Cape Verde, officially the Republic of Cape Verde)

Planet Hopping Week: Brazilian: Various Artists

Continuing on our globe-trotting adventure, stop four on our Planet Hopping Week is Brazil.
 
Contemporary composer Aldo Brizzi wrote the music for Brizzi do Brasil, an album of songs written for Brazilian and Portuguese artists, such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Teresa Salgueiro of Madredeus, and Carlinhos Brown. 

Italian born Brizzi lives in Salvador Bahia. He writes:

The original idea that inspired this recording was to write a musical based on the libretto of the Mexican poet Francisco Serrano, a story about Orpheus who descends into hell, and who, instead of meeting Eurydice, encounters Alice in Wonderland.

I prepared four demo songs for the producers of the project, and these were a bit removed from the usual projects for which I’m known. I proposed the idea to Alan Foix, director of a studio in Paris which received subvention from the Ministry of French Culture, and he became enthusiastic about the project. From him I obtained space and support to record some pieces. It was during the World Cup in France, and the presence of many Brazilian artists in Paris helped.

The original release of the album, Brizzi do Brasil, is available for free download at last.fm, and the reissue is available for purchase from the usual music sources

ALBUM: Official Site | Making of | Song Info + Lyrics | last.fm | Amazon | Amazon (reissue)

BRIZZI: Official Website | last.fm | Facebook | Amazon | myspace | YouTube

Music License: all rights reserved
Artist Location: Brazil; Italy

Fonogramaticos 13 and 14

Club Fonograma, the fun source for music of Central and South America, offers you two new Fonogramáticos, their periodic compilations.

• Volume 13: Sebastián, 25 tracks, "Dark Iberoamerican Surf"
• Volume 14: Historias del Desencanto (Stories of Disenchantment), 26 tracks

Pop, rock, electro, folk, dance, soul, remixed classics such as Pedro Infante, and more treats. There is even a cover classic Blondie song "Don't Leave Me Hanging on the Telephone" on volume 13. These latest volumes are as interesting, fun, and catchy as ever.

The compilations represent artists from Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Chile, USA, Peru, Panama, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Brazil.


genres:  pop, rock, electro, folk, dance, soul, remixed classics
license: all rights reserved

New from Axial

Brand new free album from Axial (São Paulo, Brazil) just released!

Axial are long-time favorites at Oddio. Axial are Brazilian artists who blend soft vocals, organic sounds, synth beds, and electro glitches with gorgeous results.

License: Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike

Weekend Sunshine

Here are five collections of free and legally shared tunes to bring sunshine to your weekend! There is something here for everyone and something for any occasion. Feast your ears!

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MEU CORAÇÃO É BRASILEIRO

ABOUT: Brazilian flavors from old traditional folk songs to favela funk
TAGGED AS: funk carioca, favela funk, baile funk, pop, folk, brazil, afro-brazilian, brazilian

TOYLAND

ABOUT: Bouncy, boingy, squeaky, squirmy, twinkling, sparkling! Welcome to a wonderful world of toys, ear candy, and giggles brought to you by Thiaz Itch, El Zoologico, Gangpol & Mit, Cindy Sizer, Lawrence Power, The Bran Flakes, Christian Bjoerklund, René Vis, 8bit Betty, Valzi & Zinger, and Bubblyfish!
TAGGED AS: synth pop, novelty, pop, experimental pop, toyland, toys, chip music, children, childrens music

KAIRAKUDA: AFRICAN WATER

TAGGED AS: international, world, african, africa, north african

UPDATE 06/14/10: Just learned that Kairakuda has a second African mix that you might also enjoy.

MACEDONIA: THE HARMONIC EQUIVALENT OF RUN-ON SENTENCES...

ABOUT: "... made with a road trip mixtape aesthetic in mind, but it should work as well for office cubicle therapy. Be it hip-hop or minimal techno, be it quirky and upbeat click and glitch-laden electronics, from the smooth and introspective to the edgy and erratic"

JASON: INTERNATIONAL SOUNDS 2009

ABOUT: Argentina, Mali, Haiti, Eastern Europe, India, and performances on Transpacific Sound Paradise

Many more to come! Hopefully some by YOU.

New Breed of Brazilian Artists

If yesterday's post about Mombojó has piqued your interest in the new breed of Brazilian artists, you might also enjoy the free albums available from Brasil Música e Artes. They offer free compilations of new music from Brazil from the traditional to the avant garde. They also offer two great albums from forró artists Naurêa (album: SAMBAIÃO) and the legendary Gilberto Monteiro (album: GILBERTO MONTEIRO). Enjoy!

License: traditional copyrights

Mombojó is also offering their latest album AMIGO DO TEMPO for free at their website right now.

License for AMIGO DO TEMPO: unknown, not stated

Manguebeat from Mombojo

The manguebeat movement is a cultural movement created circa 1991 in the city of Recife in Northeast Brazil as a response to the city's cultural and economical stagnation.

The original movement named itself mangue bit, "mangue" for Recife's mangroves and "bit" to the computer bit central to the movement's electronic music influences. Since then, mangue bit has been more commonly called manguebeat.

The stylistic origins of the music are in maracatu, punk rock, hip hop, samba, Brazilian folk music, and psychedelic rock. The first wave appeared in the 1990s. Mombojó is part of the second wave of the manguebeat movement. They were featured in MTV's coverage (Sintonizando Recife) of manguebeat along with fellow bands China and Maquinado.

Enjoy Mombojó's album NADADENOVO at the FMA. Here is a taste.

Nadadenovo by Mombojo is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Brazil License.

Charles-Valentin Alkan's Opuses 25 and 31

Brazillian pianist Felipe Sarro performs Opus 25 Alleluia and Opus 31 Préludes by French Romantic composer Charles-Valentin Alkan.

Alkan, one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day, was a friend and contemporary of Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin. He was a child prodigy, entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six. Alkan was a favorite of his teacher, Joseph Zimmermann, who also taught fellow composers Georges Bizet, César Franck, Charles Gounod, and Ambroise Thomas. In his twenties, Alkan was a famous virtuoso and teacher in elegant social circles. Liszt once stated that Alkan had the finest piano technique of anyone he knew. This Romantic composer was a luminary of his time.

Felipe Sarro began his musical training at the age of eight and studied at Academia Musical Fátima and Santa Cecília Musical Conservatory. In this album on the FMA, Sarro performs Alkan's Opus 31 Alleluia (1844) and Opus 25 Préludes dans touts les tons majeur et mineurs (1847) in entirety.

image: Alkan's music frequently displays idiosyncratic features, including nonstandard key signature and pedal notation, as seen in the above image showing an extract from the 2nd movement of his sonata Les Quatre Âges.

album license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License

Tuesday's Dozen

Tuesday is a real good news day. Here you have a new set of 12 free and legal collections and CDs to get you through the work week! Eat up and be sure to spread the love by supporting these artists!

Jalikebba and the Toubabs Jalikebba Kuyateh performs on the kora at the Tanji Village Museum in his homeland of Gambia [folk, Africa]	Gepel Argentinan jazz combo shares their fantastic Moducué CD, showcasing popular Latin themes within traditional cool jazz (website) [jazz]	Jordan O'Connor Canadian bassist and film score composer offers his improvisational solo bass album Lebreton online [jazz, bass]
Dead Heart Bloom two gorgeous CDs of "music with the eclectic eccentricity of Beck and the dramatics of David Bowie" and you'll hear Nick Drake there, too [pop, acoustic, rock]	Hedgehog Brazilian electro artist, aka The Mechanical God, best known for his breakbeat work, shares lounge CD (blog, myspace) [downtempo, jazz, lounge, Brazil]	Plastique Noir fans of Bauhaus won't want to miss this goth Brazilian group on German netlabel afmusic (band's myspace) [gothic, post-punk, rock, industrial]
Ryan Hoyle the drummer for Collective Soul and many other artists shares works from his portfolio [pop, rock]	JazzCorner.com offers fantastic podcasts featuring and interviewing jazz legends and up-and-comers [jazz]	The Weird Weeds This Is Not What You Want EP, "took all of 30 seconds... to fully blow my mind" - Portland Mercury [experi, pop]
Mikseri Finland's answer to MP3.com, IUMA, Soundclick, etc.; pages translate with a click; cool, vast resource [varied]	Nichole and the Dreamcatchers 12-yr old Nichole and some adult friends offer up this bizarre and beautiful xmas CD [kids, odd, varied]	Pr1me shares his entire The Transformation: Perception Is Deception CD, preview tracks on myspace profile [soul, hip hop, rap]

Tuesday Means Another Dozen

Tuesday is a real good news day. Here you have a new set of 12 free and legal collections and CDs! Eat up and be sure to spread the love by supporting these artists!

Axial Brazil artists who blend soft vocals, organic sounds, synth beds and electro glitches generating a gorgeous result [Brazil, folk, electro]	Pueblo Nuevo inspiring netlabel in Santiago, Chile, founded by Mika Martini and djef featuring Chilean electronic artists [electro]	VA - Tribute to a Love Singer reinterpretations that only share the lyrics the original love songs by the masters [varied]
NullRepublik Records Argentinian netlabel and Synthfonik Fest organizers with focus on artists from Argentina [electro, synth]	Schilli-San - Smooth Situations two years after its release, this 7-song CD still pops up in regular play at the Oddio House [downtempo, urban]	John Frusciante singer songwriter guitarist best known for his work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, shares his demos [rock]
Luv sound growing, thoughtful netlabel offering electroacoustic, drone, microchip and other styles [varied]	Error! Lo-FI Spanish netlabel is the lo-fi folk pop subdivision of Error! Records [lo-fi, folk, pop]	Brunk from Belgium comes this fine, "DIY lowbudget homerecording, w/o any musical restrictions or stylistic premises" [guitar, lo-fi, pop]
D-Trash Canadian label shares its netlabel of more than 100 free breakcore, industrial and digital punk full-length releases	Morning Zephyr three piece playing violin, piano, double bass and drums offers three releases of subtle pieces [folk, jazz, experi]	Kip Jones the violinist and pianist of Morning Zephyr shares works from his other bands and field recordings [folk, jazz, field]

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Chico Correa and Electronic Band

Chico Correa and Electronic Band

Beautiful mix of organic and electronic works and all with a distinctly Brazilian flavor. It is right up there with Bojo. I am in deep love with this 13-song release right now.

Brought to you by Japanese netlabel Bumpfoot and the Internet Archive.

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