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<channel><generator>iloblog 1.0</generator><title>Do Brasil Feed</title><link>http://dobrasil.brasilatino.com/</link><description>Reviews and information about the music of Brazil. Feel free to join the blog if you have opinions and info about brazilian music, you wish to share.
</description><item><title>Nara Leão</title><link>http://iloapp.brasilatino.com/blog/dobrasil?Home&amp;post=3</link><description><![CDATA[     
 Nara Leão, the famous muse of bossa nova, was a young girl living in Copacabana in the late 1950ies. In her parents flat she hosted the informal music gatherings of young musicians including herself, her former boyfriend Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra and João Gilberto, Luis Eça and others. These gatherings became crucial for the development of a new music style, that ended up being called Bossa Nova. Nara became one of the leading female figures in this new Brazilian music, and maintained a special position until her death in 1989.  
 I have stumbled upon two series of documentary clips, all uploaded by  Serva , that celebrates Nara in connection with 20. anniversery of her death in 2009. One series is "Sarau Nara Leão" that in the form of an informal meeting in a TV studio with Roberto Menescal, singer Fernanda Takai and others pays hommage to Nara, taking of her, singing her songs, showing smaller clips of her performances. Theres is 5 episodes in the series.  The other series "Por Toda Minha Vida" is a documentary film, uploaded in 7 episodes, where original clips are mixed with commentaries from central figures of bossa and her life, and with actors recreating important episodes from her private life. 
   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:19:20 +0100</pubDate><category>The Youtube Tour</category></item><item><title>The YouTube Tour</title><link>http://iloapp.brasilatino.com/blog/dobrasil?Home&amp;post=2</link><description><![CDATA[ Every week I spend some time browsing through Youtube in search of interesting clips of brazilian music. I will share my experiences here with a theme for each posting  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:17:41 +0100</pubDate><category>The Youtube Tour</category></item><item><title>Chico Buarque: Chico</title><link>http://iloapp.brasilatino.com/blog/dobrasil?Home&amp;post=1</link><description><![CDATA[   Chico Buarques new record Chico is his first studio record in 5 years. 48 years have gone since his record debut in 1964 (2 years after my birth!), but Chico seems as vital as ever. All songs on the album seem to open little worlds of their own, playing with words, names and places, making references to music styles, sportsidols and fellow musicians. Besides making music Chico is one of Brazils most acknowledged writers and playwrites and you can really sense the literate side of him all through this record.   But that can be said about all of his records. To me the real revelation about this new one is the music. I think it's highly original, very sophisticated, and it also seems more solid, kind of self-assured than anything I have heard from Chico before.   You can see videoclips of the other songs by searching "chico bastidores" on youtube. There is also a kind of "making of" named "Dia Voa" (Day Flies) documenting the intense effort that has been put into this talbum. Chico talks about the albums creation, from his first musical sketches recorded in the Garage Band software he stumbled upon by incident, to the long rehearsing and developing process with the key musicians, the settling for the final arrangements, and the studio recordings with invited guest musicians.  Chicos wonderful humour and selfirony runs through it all, as he laughs of his ability to forget and alter guitar chords almost immediately after learnig them.   In the end I sense from the documentary and certainly also from the album itself, that more work has been put in to this album than usual. Everybody has had a real good time with it, and I am certainly having a good time listening.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:40:50 +0100</pubDate><category>Review</category></item><item><title>Beth Marques: Bordadeira</title><link>http://iloapp.brasilatino.com/blog/dobrasil?Home&amp;post=0</link><description><![CDATA[ A new name in brazilian song has emerged. Beth Marques, releasing her debut album Bordadeira on the Rob Digital label. Beth Marques is definetely a skillfull singer, and the backing is in the hands of some of the very best younger musicians in Brazil today. Ze Paulo Becker is producer, arranger and plays a part in composing most of the songs. The style is modern, slightly jazzy MPB, with hints of samba and Nordeste inspirations with drops of baiao and samba de roda, the latter brought in in particular by wellknown bahian songwriter Roque Ferreira. As mentioned, the backing is really exquisite, and the compositions in general are quite good. Only thing lacking is some more depth in Beths Marques interpreting. She seem to fall in a very common trap for younger singers, seeming so very keen to get the melody in focus with a beautyful voice, that the storytelling falls somewhat behind. But a nice record it is, displaying musicians such as Carlos Malta (flutes), Kiko Horta (accordeon), Gabriel Grossi (autoharp), Rogerio Caetano (seven-stringed guitar), Beto Cazes (percussion) and of course Ze Paulo Becker (guitar).You can listen to tracks at Beth Marques website  http://www.bethmarques.com.br/bordadeira/  .   
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