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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Brunch Tunes: David Byrne's Brazil Classics Vol. 1, Beleza Tropical"



I'm getting my Brazillian groove on and cooking pancakes as I write this!

David Byrne's Brazil Classics, Beleza Tropical preceded the height of popularity of Tropicalia during the latter part of the 1990s. Performers include like Beck, Dios Malos and others were as influennced by tropicalia as they were American songwriters. This compilation includes such influential Brazilian musicials as Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, and Jorge Ben and their recordings from the 1970s and '80s. This album is a wonderful portal into a world of inspired and brilliant music. Byrne deserves some big credit for conqureing one of the main challenges inherent in the World Music genre in the late 1980s: access. Expertly chosen, David Byrne's Brazil Classics Vol. 1, Beleza Tropical is an absolutelu essential part of a music collection. Subsequent collections cover Samba and Forro.

Listen to these great Brazillian classics:
Jorge Ben's Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)
Caetano Veloso's Um Canto De Afoxé Para O Bloco De Ilê (Ilê Ayê)
Gilberto Gil's Quilombo, O El Dorado Negro
Nazaré Pereira's Maculelê


React: Do you recognize the part of Quilombo, O El Dorado Negro which was sampled by the Beastie Boys?

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