Word: brazile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 25 years ago, Desafinado and The Girl from Ipanema swayed the world to the sinuous sound of bossa nova. Now a new generation of musicians is discovering the old seducer: Brazil. Some of the world's leading pop stars -- David Byrne, Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel among them -- are intent on weaving novel strands of ethnic music into a fresh, global sound. They have been flying down to Rio for inspiration and coming back laden with rhythm...
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...
...drummer didn't pass out from sheer exhaustion. An inspired combination of South American salsa and merengue styles, country and western twangs and violin concertos, Rei Momo has an almost thoroughly upbeat effect that is certain to make you dream of spending next year's Carnival in Brazil...
...front of sellout crowds. Since the bigger kids always used to hog the baseball field, we first-graders would have the large field in the back of our school (San Benito in Humacao. Puerto Rico) all to ourselves. There were about 15 of us and every game was Brazil against Argentina. Problem was, everyone wanted to be Pele; no one liked the Argentines...
...burning of the forests goes on much longer, the damage may become irreversible. Long before the great rain forests are destroyed altogether, the impact of deforestation on climate could dramatically change the character of the area, lead to mass extinctions of plant and animal species, and leave Brazil's poor to endure even greater misery than they do now. The people of the rest of the world, no less than the Brazilians, need the Amazon as a functioning system, and in the end, this is more important than the issue of who owns the forest. The Amazon may run through...