Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...record-company executives are crooning the same refrain. At Polygram, vice president Richard Seidel is overseeing a new "Brazilian Wave" series that includes anthology albums for a number of major Brazilian pop stars. Celluloid, an independent U.S. label, has launched a subsidiary called Braziloid, dedicated to musica popular brasileira, a term used by Brazilians to refer to the country's diverse contemporary sounds. CBS Records is promoting Brazilian stars like Djavan and Rio de Janeiro-born vocalist Milton Nascimento as pop acts...
...rhythm -- lots of rhythm -- that accounts for the new craze, and a good deal of the beat comes from the state of Bahia. There, in the Brazilian equivalent of the American Deep South, African 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...
...Brazil's other top performers. Bethania's brother, Veloso, 47, is -- along with Gilberto Gil -- one of the main exponents of tropicalismo, the 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...
...Byrne has spent time and research finding the right New World instruments to perfect Rei Momo's South American flavor. His use of Portuguese and Spanish lyrics in such cuts as "Make Believe Mambo" and "The call of the Wild" likewise lends the album the convincing authenticity of a Brazilian release...