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MUSIC: Brasil, Brasil
On: BBC FOUR
Date: Friday 23rd november 2007
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
*From Samba to Bossa (Part 1 of 3).*
Comprehensive review of Brazilian music in a three-part series which tells the story of the styles and the artists that have captured the world's imagination for decades.
The series starts in the days of slavery, when an estimated 4 million Africans were forcibly moved to Brazil, and traces the development of samba from the poor black areas of Salvador and Rio, where it was initially banned, to its fusion with European styles and its move to the mainstream.
The programme follows the career of samba's most successful and glamorous international star, Carmen Miranda, and the growth of the samba schools that dominate the Rio carnival. It traces the fight-back by musicians from the poor Northeast, who used a rival style, forro, to sing about the harsh realities of their lives, and shows how politics helped the development of a sophistcated new samba-jazz fusion, bossanova, from the Fifties, that was to bring international success to Joao Gilberto and Tom Jobim.
The programme ends with the military coup that ended the optimistic, easy-going bossa era.
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MUSIC: Brasil, Brasil
On: BBC FOUR (eng) (28)
Date: Friday 30th November 2007
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
*The Tropicalia Revolution (Part 2 of 3).*
The second programme in the series covers the military era in Brazil, from 1964-85, and discusses the role that musicians played in leading the fight-back and how they suffered as a result. The era began with the left-wing protest movement headed by singers like Nara Leao, that was matched against rival styles that ranged from the passionate singing of Elis Regina to the rousing pop songs of Jorge Ben with television song contests developing into a battle-ground between supporters of different styles.
All this changed in the late Sixties, with the emergence of the experimental tropicalia movement, determined to shake up Brazil just as military hardliners took control of the government. The programme chronicles the careers of the tropicalia stars, from Os Mutantes to Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, who were both jailed and exiled to Britain (and includes never shown footage of them both performing at the Isle of Wight festival). It describes the military censorship campaign against such leading musicians as Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento, and even Jorge Ben. And it shows how black musicians in Bahia state responded by developing new, and often militant black styles like samba-reggae.
Writer and Producer: Robin Denselow
*Track listing*
# *Sina de Caboclo - Nara Leão*
Influenced by communism and a desire to use music for social change Nara Leão swapped the lyrics about the sun and sea that characterised Bossa Nova for lyrics about the hunger and hardship of the poor. This kind of music became known as the "protest song".
/Try:/ Nara Leão's album Opinião which kick started the movement or Maria Bethania who became famous for her passionate rendition of songs like Carcará. Geraldo Vandré's Pra Não Dizer Que Não Falei Das Flores (Caminhando) was the anthem for the left wing students.
# *Acender as Velas - Zé Keti*
This is Samba do Morro, Samba from the hill, at its best and was considered by the left wing students to be the "authentic" music of Brazil as it was produced by the "real" people and told of their suffering and poverty.
/Try:/ Zé Keti's album Sucessos or the work of Cartola, another famous Samba do Morro exponent whose beautiful songs Alvorada and Preciso me Encontrar became known to the world on the City of God soundtrack.
# *Fool on the Hill - Sérgio Mendes & Brasil 66*
Sérgio Mendes became the most successful Brazilian artist in the United States by feeding the demand for easy listening lounge music.
/Try:/ Other jazzy lounge artists like Quarteto Em Cy, Marcos Valle, and Astrud Gilberto.
# *A Banda - Chico Buarque*
Famous for his clever lyrics and simple style Chico Buarque became a super-star in Brazil in the 1960s and then came back radicalised from exile and was the most outspoken critic of the military dictatorship in the 1970s.
/Try:/ Cálice, his most famous song criticising the military, Samba de Orly, a reference to the Brazilians in exile in France and the beautiful Valhsinha.
# *Upa Neguinho - Elis Regina*
For many Elis was the best singer in the history of Brazilian music, famous for her passionate performances and wild lifestyle.
/Try:/ The brilliant rendition of Caetano Veloso's Cinema Olympia. Or other great songs like Ih! Meu Deus de Céu, Na Batucada da Vida and Maria Rosa.
# *Tropicália - Caetano Veloso*
Like a manifesto for a movement, this song announces that a new generation of artists, the Tropicalistas, are going to do things differently - combining the sound of The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix with the tropical sounds of Brazil to create a radically new fusion.
/Try:/ Other Tropicália standards Bat Macumba by Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé's Jimmy Renda-se, and Gal Costa's Tuareg.
# *Ando Meio Desligado - Os Mutantes*
Beck and Devendra Banhart are two artists who cite Os Mutantes as a major influence. It is easy to see why with their idiosyncratic and playful style, making them one of the most interesting psychedelic bands of the era, anywhere.
/Try:/ A Minha Menina, El Justiceiro, Ave Genghis Khan and Rita Lee.
# *Aguas de Março - Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim)*
João Gilberto may have defined the Bossa sound but it was Tom Jobim who was the greatest composer. In his early career he collaborated with the poet Vinícius de Moraes, a hugely successful partnership which produced amongst other things, Chega de Saudade and Desafinado. Aguas de Março comes from a later period and shows his genius for capturing the spirit of Brazil.
/Try:/ More songs by Jobim and Vinícius, A Felicidade, Agua de Beber and of course the hugely famous Garota de Ipanema. Other Jobim songs like One Note Samba, Corcovado (Quiet Night of Quiet Stars) and don't miss Elis Regina's beautiful version of Aguas de Março.
# *Maria Maria - Milton Nascimento*
Milton Nascimento has a unique style infused with the sound of his mountainous homeland, Minas Gerais, Gregorian Chant combined with Brazilian rhythms.
/Try:/ His beautiful album Clube da Esquina from 1972.
# *The music of the Bloco Afros*
Olodum, Ilê Aiyê, and Filhos de Gandhi are three of the more famous Bloco Afros that function as community centres in Salvador and parade during Carnival time. They are best seen live for the full effect of the drumming but some of them have recorded as well.
/Try:/ Ilê Aiyê's album Black Chant and Olodum's Liberdade.
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MUSIC: Brasil, Brasil Ep 3 of 3
On: BBC FOUR
Date: Friday 07th November 2007
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
*A Tale of Four Cities (Part 3 of 3).*
The final programme examines the widely varied musical scene across Brazil today, and the way that songs still have a political importance in highlighting the gulf between rich and poor, black and white.
It shows how musicians like Chico Science in the northern city of Recide reacted against the American-influenced rock scene of the Eighties, to create their own new fusion, in which rock and hip-hop were mixed with local traditional styles like maracatu.
In Sao Paulo, it examines how Racionais MCs created a new, Brazilian form of hip-hop that made them heroes of the poor, predominantly black suburbs, the favelas. Meanwhile in the smart down-town area, producer Suba created a new style of electronica and achieved international success through his work with Bebel Gilberto.
In Rio de Janeiro, there were similar divisions: here, the city's funk clubs were closed after disturbances, and the music moved to the rough favelas, now often a battle-ground between police and drug gangs. The programme examines how funk and hip-hop have developed in the favelas, and how bands like AfroReggae have tried to bring social change in the most lawless parts of the city.
It shows, too, how samba has continued to develop in Rio, developing a new following both through hip-hop fusions and the return to fashion of old-style big band samba. The programme ends in a fourth city, Salvador, where the axe pop style dominates the spectacular carnival, but black musicians complain they are being left out.
Writer and Producer: Robin Denselow
*Track listing*
# *Orgasmatron - Sepultura*
Apart from Sepultura, Brazilian rock is little known in the rest of the world but there is a thriving scene especially in the south.
*Try:* Soulfly which was formed by Sepultura's lead singer after it disbanded or try other, less heavy rock groups like Skank or the experimental Pato Fu.
# *A Cidade - Chico Science & Nação Zumbi (CSNZ)*
CSNZ and Mundo Livre S/A were the two most innovative bands of the Mangue Bit scene and their unique sound came from their combining foreign rock and hip hop influences with regional rhythms. DJ Dolores does the same to great effect using electronic beats.
*Try:* CSNZ's brilliant album Da Lama ao Caos from 1995, Mundo Livre's Bit or the DJ Dolores and Instituto album Narradores de Javé.
# *Siba e a Fuloresta - Bringa*
Siba, like other members of the Mangue Bit movement, is interested in exploring the sounds of his region Pernambuco and used the rhythms of Maracatú and Ciranda in his work.
*Try:* Siba e a Fuloresta's album Fuloresta do Samba or some of the compilations which celebrate the diverse sound of Pernambuco like What's happening in Pernambuco?
# *Diário De Um Detento - Racionais Mcs*
Brazil has a huge rap and hip hop scene, headed by the Racionais Mcs and MV Bill, and has become one of the ways in which a generation of urban people have been able to voice their criticisms of the inequality and racism in Brazil.
*Try:* Other hip hop artists like Rappin' Hood, Gabriel o Pensador, Sabotage and Marcelo D2
# *Tantos Desejos - Suba*
Suba was one of the most influential figures in Brazilian music in the 1990s creating a uniquely Brazilian electronic sound. Some of the most innovative electronic music in the world is being made in Brazil.
*Try:* Ramiro Musotto and Bruno-E, two highly acclaimed electronic artists.
# *So Nice (Summer Samba) - Bebel Gilberto*
Bebel Gilberto has updated the soft, Bossa Nova sound of her father with modern electronic sounds creating one of the most commercially successful Brazilian albums ever, Tanto Tempo.
*Try:* Other female singers who have added their own quirky touches to the Bossa sound, CéU, Cibelle, Patricia Marx and the super famous Marisa Monte.
# *Brazilian Funk*
From the Rio favelas, Funk or Baile Funk as it is becoming known in the rest of the world has become very fashionable recently with artists like M.I.A recording funk songs.
*Try:* Bonde do Role and Tetine whose album Slam Dunk presents Funk Carioca is a great introduction to the genre.
# *Carolina - Seu Jorge*
Seu Jorge became famous for his part in the amazing film, City of God but he is also a singer with a charismatic voice who has updated the samba sound.
*Try:* Bezerra da Silva, Seu Jorge's hero, who has been often been labelled as gangster samba for his lyrics that portray the reality of the favelas and the problems of gangs, arms and drugs.
# *Te Convidei pro Samba - Domenico Moreno Kassin*
The perfect example of how Brazilian music can blend, in the style of Tropicalia and Mangue Bit, various different influences to create an eclectic style.
*Try:* Max de Castro and Ed Motta, two diverse artists who blend samba, bossa nova, soul, electronica and hip hop
# *Chupa Toda - Gilberto Gil & Ivete Sangalo*
This is Axé, the music of Ivete, Brazil's biggest star and is a kind of pop music which outsells almost everything else in Brazil. Carlinhos Brown is also associated with Axé as he is from Bahia and he has produced some of the more interesting music labelled as such with his group Timbalada.
*Try:* Another huge star, Daniela Mercury or Margareth Menezes who has a wonderful, soulful voice.
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