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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JAMES MCMURTRY: TOO LONG IN THE WASTELAND (Columbia). A fine debut album that fixes a bleary, jaundiced eye on the back roads and byways of small-town life. McMurtry turns a lyric with irony and precision, even if his voice can't carry a tune as far as the barn door...
Earlier this year Byrne, the leader of Talking Heads, assembled a sampling of 1970s Brazilian pop on the Fly/Sire Records album Beleza Tropical: Brazil Classics Vol. I. This month a follow-up collection, O Samba: Brazil Classics Vol. 2, is due to appear, along with Rei Momo, Byrne's solo album based on Brazilian and other Latin song styles. Simon is planning to include Brazilian- inspired material in his next album, scheduled for release in early 1990. Gabriel, whose new Real World label focuses on non-Western music, based his score for the film The Last Temptation of Christ...
...tribal dances are blended with European sounds to create the insistent samba; the afoxe, associated with the Afro-Roman Catholic Candomble religion; and the chugging, accordion-dominated forro, which blends African rhythms with Portuguese folk music. Says U.S. guitarist Arto Lindsay, co-producer with Peter Scherer of the latest album by an eminent Brazilian performer, Caetano Veloso: "In Bahia and the north you find the purest African rhythms, some of the most innovative in Brazil." Notes Byrne: "Bahia may be to Brazil what New Orleans was as the birthplace of jazz -- a source of musical ideas that are later refined...
...buoyant music of the student generation that emerged during a period of military dictatorship after 1964. That style advocated the rights of blacks, reintroduced strong Afro-Brazilian rhythms and made prominent use of electric guitars. Veloso projects intimacy in personal, deeply reflective songs such as those on his new album, Estrangeiro (Stranger). Gil, whose lyrics can range from overtly political to dreamily poetic, is a versatile stylist whose repertoire ranges from reggae to rock to electric variations onsamba...
...everything, it seems, from teapots to hubcaps to sewing machines. Singer- songwriters Djavan, 40, and Ivan Lins, 42, are purveyors of easygoing, soulful music in a sophisticated urban style. Djavan, who hails from the northeastern state of Alagoas, began making records in the mid-1970s; his most recent albums have included songs in English. Lins' songwriting is freighted with rich chord changes; like Djavan, Lins is aiming for mainstream crossover appeal abroad. With this in mind, he sings in English on this year's Love Dance, his latest album release...