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...recordings and in concert, her low, tremulous instrument is backed by a band consisting of a 12-string Portuguese guitar and a Spanish guitar, the traditional fado instruments, and a bass guitar. The 12-string guitarist, Custodio Castelo, is Branco's husband as well as her chief collaborator in songwriting. She presents him with a poem she likes, usually Portuguese, and the two of them craft it into song...
...generation and new technology. In Tijuana, Mexico, young DJs are crossing traditional norteno (a polka-like music) with not-at-all-traditional techno to create a fresh genre, Nortec. In Bogota, Colombia, the rock duo Aterciopelados is mixing old-time accordion-driven vallenato with clubland drum-'n'-bass beats. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the great chanteuse Marisa Monte is smoothly blending samba...
...this tradition, De Castro brings a sound that fluidly, intelligently and winningly blends disparate genres--samba, bossa nova, drum 'n' bass, hip-hop and soul--into futuristic music that echoes the past. On his debut album, Samba Raro (released last year on the Trama label), De Castro's lyrics, all in Portuguese, have an engaging, understated simplicity. The title song compares the movement of a beautiful woman to a samba (Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes made a similar comparison on their bossa-nova standard The Girl from Ipanema). Another song, Pra Voce Lembrar, tells the story...
Invisible Downtown took the makeshift stage next. The band, made up of Joseph S. Bell ’03 and Michael J. Palmer ‘03, vocals and guitar, Matthew J. Kamen ’03, bass and Travis M. Beamish ’04, drums, describes itself as “an edgy indie power pop quartet,” but this is an indie power pop quartet that isn’t shy about spontaneously breaking out with “Bust a Move...
...rock extravaganza” fronted by Jeffrey E. Heck ’03 (but just call him Jeff Heck). There is a very good reason why the group is also known as Jeff Heck and Second Act, which also consists of Warren S. Adler ’03 on bass, Gabriel J. Jostrom ’04 on violin and Josh Rowe from the Berkeley School of Music on drums. Heck has an amazingly full and expressive voice that comes across best in a live performance. His temporary lapses of memory (discussed below) deserve to be summarily forgiven...