Word: brazilianizing
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...says his album "Samba Raro" is a tribute to the artists of the past he feels deserve recognition, including Edison Machado, Eumir Deodato, Moacir Santos, Jorge Ben and Baden Powell. Each song focuses on a different act or group of acts; the title track, for example is dedicated to Brazilian acts from the '60s. While he draws from the past, he's also looking to the future and considers the album his "way of baptizing the style" he's developed...
...five minutes and the translator's answer would be "yes" or "no." You know that phrase "something was lost in the translation?" I was living it, baby. Castro, who is 28 and was born in Rio, says he thinks Rock in Rio will have a major impact on Brazilian artists. In past megaconcerts, Brazilian artists have taken a backseat to international ones. "There's a certain segregation when it comes to megashows to give foreign performers more credit," says de Castro. Rock in Rio, he believes, will place Brazilian acts alongside big foreign stars where they belong. That...
...Sabastiao do Rio de Janeiro, a modern cathedral built in 1960 that looks like a huge brown traffic cone. Inside, the pews are semicircular in shape, radiating from the center like wooden ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. In the 1800s, despite the supression of Afro-Brazilian religions, followers of such faiths would secretly worship West African deities during Roman Catholic rites. For example, someone might act as if they were praying to the Virgin Mary when they were really praying to Iemanja, the goddess of the sea. The tour guide doesn't tell us any of this...
...first places we pass by is the site of the old Garota de Ipanema, the Brazilian bar that was named in honor of the famous song "The Girl from Ipanema," which Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes wrote in 1962. From my seat on the bus, I can't actually see the sign for the bar, but I recognize the outside from pictures. It turns out there actually was a "girl from Ipanema," Heloisa Eneida Pinto, and she used to stroll "like a samba" past the bar every so often on her way to Ipanema Beach, and her "tall...
...look at Cristo Redentor I think of Catedral de Sao Sebastiao and then all those Afro-Brazilian worshipers thinking about their own gods during Christian ceremonies. I wonder if it's possible, just possible, to come to Rock in Rio, to worship at the temple of the Gods of Pop, and really be praying to wilder, more radical spirits. Or if this whole Rock in Rio thing is just another big piece of unredeemable commercial crapola and we are all going to hell anyway...