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Events included the cha cha, rhumba, mambo, swing, samba, jive, waltz, fox trot and quickstep competitions...
...invite his erstwhile partner Art Garfunkel to join him. Simon, now the Midas of polycultural pop, seemed determined to banish the ghost of the folk-rock sound that made him famous. Backed by a 17-piece band, he kicked off the show (broadcast live on HBO) with the rousing samba tattoo of The Obvious Child, from his album The Rhythm of the Saints, and kept up the momentum with 2 1/2 hours of undulating, Afro-Caribbean-flavored music. The older songs that were included were transformed, including a reggae-tinged Bridge over Troubled Water and a percolating version of Cecilia...
Byrne, the lead singer of the Talking Heads, said his dissatisfaction with the disco music of the 1970s led him to the investigation of "tropicalismo" that culminated in Rei Momo, his new solo album and the compilation albums Beleza Tropical and O Samba...
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...
...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...