Although I realise that most of our visitors find samba a bit
difficult to listen to I can’t resist posting some of the stuff.
Ever since I heard Dona Ivone Lara first time I got captured
by her pleasant voice and music. Personally I think the best
samba was made a bit earlier but Dona Ivone Lara managed
to keep alive the sound that I like so much. If you are into
Brazilian samba do not miss this one, I strongly recommend
you give it a spin, who knows what will happen depois..

Então gente, se você gosta de samba, não se esquece de
baixar ese disco aqui. Dona Ivone Lara com a voz deliciosa
dela esta aqui pra fazer vocês feliz. Eu fiquei muito e espero
que vão também. Pega rapido e pasa para os seus amigos..

tracks;

1 Roda de samba pra salvador
2 Prea comeu
3 O samba não pode parar
4 Lamento do negro
5 Nasci para sonhar e cantar
6 Sambas de terreiro ( prazer da serrinha )
– Serra dos meus sonhos dourados
– Orgia
– Alegria minha gente
– Eu ja jurei
– Me abandonaste
– Meu destino é sofrer
– Chorar não resolve
– Serra dos meus sonhos dourados
2 Coração porque choras ?
3 Vejo em teus labios risos
4 Uma rosa pro cartola

Goodmorning groovers, it has been a long time since I’ve
posted some samba. I know that most of our visitors don’t
like it a lot but I am a sucker for good samba. I also know
that some of our frequenters do like it, in fact one of them
specifically asked me to post more Brazillian material. So
here is an lp by a very popular group, we had four of their
albums in the past.

Remco, check these out, I’m sure you’re gonna like what
you hear, take your guitar and play along..cheers..

tracks;

1 Saudade e flores
2 Samba do “Arnesto”
3 Cabeça que não tem juízo
4 Tragédia no fundo do mar
5 Pra que tristeza
6 Mulata faceira
7 Boato
8 Canto de amor
9 Buchicho
10 Complicação
11 Quem me dera
12 Não sei de nada

For those who like to listen to laid back Brazilian music
from the sixties and seventies, I made us this compilation.
Before you start commenting, let me be the first to say;
You’re right, this is not only bossa nova. This comp also
contains some samba, chorinho and MPB for instance. I just
picked a nice cover from the pile of Loronix material, after
all, it was made under the spell of Zecalouro who taught us
so much about this wonderful almost forgotten music.
Consider it another tribute to Loronix and Zeca,
Hope U like..

tracks;

1   Elis Regina – Folhas secas
2   Thelma – O que é que a bahiana tem
3   Nara Leão – Minha nega
4   Sambalanço Trio – Samba pro pedrinho
5   Sylvia Telles – Com você
6   Elizeth Cardoso – Na cadência do samba
7   Maria Bethania – Trés apitos
8   Abel Ferreira – Chorando baixinho
9   Dorival Caymmi – Eo não tenho onde morar
10  The Bossa Three – Blues walk
11  Astrud Gilberto – Você ja foi a bahia
12  Ed Lincoln – Cochise
13  João Gilberto – O samba da minha terra
14  Djalma Ferreira e os Milionarios do Ritmo – Drinkando
15  Claudette Soares – Bom tempo
16  Milton Banana – Cidade vazia
17  Celly Campo – Banho de lua
18  Alberto Mota e seu Conjunto – Samba triste

Long time since I posted some samba. I really got in
the mood for some Brazillian stuff the past few days.
Here’s an album I had waiting for quite some time.
I think Joel Teixeira is a very underrated sambista.
From the very beginning I heard his music I was
convinced of his skills. 12 great samba’s
for lovers of the genre.

tracks;

1   Um sorriso amigo
2   Minha terra
3   Simplesmente saudade
4   Surra de amor
5   Não haverá outra vez
6   É madrugada
7   Fica combinado assim
8   Um novo amanhecer
9   Hoje sou felicidade
10  Violência
11  Quero ser feliz contigo
12  A saudade dela

Okay, let’s do some samba. Carnaval is over more or less but
that doesn’t matter with this timeless music. In the series ‘Música
Popular Brasileira’ this is a collector of various sambas from the
early seventies. It concerns songs used by the Samba schools
from Rio de Janeiro from 1970 to 1976. baixe rapido e escuta..

tracks;

1 Carlos Cachaça – Não me deixaste ir ao samba
2 Geraldo Babão – Nega, o que queres de mim ?
3 Alcides Lopes – Cidade-mulher
4 Jamelão – Exaltação à Mangueira
5 Clementina de Jesus – Moro na Roça
6 Elza Soares – O mundo encantado de Monteiro Lobato
7 Conjunto Velha Guarda da Portela – Vida de fidalga
8 Conjunto Velha Guarda da Portela – Quantas lágrimas

It must have been somewhere early 2006, a close friend introduced
Loronix to me, the first music-blog I learned about. I was sold right away,
when I found out how it worked blogging took over a part of my life.
Every morning I browsed through a load of blogs and always started
with Loronix. What would Zecalouro have for us today ? Any samba ?
I got totally hooked. When I visited relatives in Rio de Janeiro in february
2007, I could not resist to cantact Zecalouro. On tuesday february 27th
we went on a small city trip. I picked him up at his home and we went
to some of the recordshops he used to frequent and had lunch in a ‘Comida
a Kilo’ restaurant. We talked a lot about music and had a wonderful afternoon.

Zecalouro had really infected me with this blog-virus, no serious, he inspired
me so much, in may 2008 I could not keep it anymore, the birth of the
Global Groove was a fact and I still hold Zeca responsible for that..

As many of you know, Loronix is off the air for more then 2 years now.
Untill today nobody knew why and what happened to Zecalouro. I had also
failed to get in contact and did not know what was going on. Last week I
had the idea of making this tribute and gave it another try to reach him.
Due to health matters Zecalouro was forced to stop his once so popular
music-blog. I had a brief contact with him. Fortunately he is doing much
better now, working as a musician as he once did before.
His life, his blog, his decision..

I dedicate this compilation, fully inspired by himself, to Zecalouro and Loronix !
I respect your choice in life Zeca, however, Loronix was of such richness in
Brazillian music, it will be sadly missed till eternity.. que saudade..

tracks;

1 Anna Lucia – Cheiro de saudade
2 Elizeth Cardoso – Quem sou eu
3 Moacyr Silva – La barca
4 Alberto Mota e seu Conjunto – Samba toff
5 Thelma Soares – Samba do carioca
6 Batatinha – Fora do meu samba
7 Lais – Patinho feio
8 Angela Maria – Quando a noite vem
9 Ed Lincoln – The blues walk
10 Bossa Trés – Menina feia
11 Marilia Medalha – Pressentimento
12 Billy Blanco – Camelo
13 Manoel Conceição – Disse me disse
14 Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 – So nice
15 Walter Wanderley – Telefone
16 Astrud Gilberto – Baião
17 Dóris Monteiro – Meu refrão
18 Meireilles & Os Copa 7 – Sombrero sam
19 Luiz Bonfá – Sambolero
20 Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’65 – O morro
21 Wanda Sá – Aruanda
22 João Roberto Kelly & Luis Reis – Cara de pau

Yesterday we had us another very nice gathering in the
park. Most of you are not able to come and visit me in
Amsterdam, I understand. Fortunate were a few who live in
my neighbourhood. Very nice to meet like that, in a relaxed
atmosphere out in the open. I want to dedicate this post to one
visitor in particular. Rogier, this one’s for you. I was happy to
meet you and am looking forward to our next. We spoke about
Brazilian music and the coming events in our Netherlands capital.
I need to say something about the subject of today’s post. Like all
Brazilian artists, to my opinion, Jair Rodrigues made far too many
records. Brazilians tend to play each others songs without exception.
The result is that more than half of it is undesirable. I am very sorry, do not
misunderstand me! I am a lover of good samba but the ballads for instance,
are really not made for me. I’ve been looking to find some of the samba’s
on this record for years and finally found them on my trip to Salvador last april.
To my humble opinion, ‘Não bota no meu’ and ‘O carioca’ belong to the
hottest samba’s ever. So being honest, I have mixed feelings about
this LP, but since it contains these hits, I feel obliged to post it.
Focus on side one and you’ll be dancing around the house all day.
Só um pouco de besteira você vai agüentar, ..hein.. ? Escuta..!

tracks;

1 Não bota no meu
2 Sonho nordestino
3 O carioca
4 Êta fuzuê
5 Na boca da avenida
6 Todo Brasileiro
– Dona Maria
– Maria pé de boi
– Prepare o limão
– Pagode Japonês
– A feijoada
– Menina Baiana
7 Majestade o sabiá
8 Papo informal
9 Coração de malandro
10 Sonho e vida
11 Pega prá capar
12 Eu sou de você

Woke up with a samba feeling today. This 1981 LP by
Alcione has a lot of the earlier stuff. It sounds well produced
like it should coming from ’81, but the music has a strong 70’s
feel. I think this woman has a unique voice, so powerful, so strong,
I can’t seem to get enough of it. The LP is a bit dusty maybe
but it contains some great songs, track 12 even has
an African title and touch, rare, hope U like.

tracks;

1 Sem perdão
2 Força do amor
3 Pintura sem arte
4 Marcas no leito
5 Sangue novo
6 A volta da gafieira
7 Novo amor
8 Minha filosofia
9 Ave coração
10 Luto
11 O papeiro é meu
12 Nzambi-Muadiakime

A sunny saturday with sunny music. I have been asked to post
some of that samba I brought home lately and It’s my pleasure
to do so. I am not so fond of them over-produced types of samba,
you know, with violins and huge orchestration.
The beauty lies in simplicity and strong lyrics if I am concerned.
The samba of Bezerra is perfect in that aspect, simple but effective
instrumentation and lirycs that really stand out to my opinion. He sings
about the people’s daily problems including his own. Crooks, thieves
and dopeheads are often subject in his always mocking songs. This
uncut samba with it’s delightful rough edges is like candy for the purist.
6 songs by Bezerra da Silva and 6 by Reyjordão, enjoy.

tracks;

1 Mulambo só
2 Mulher da melhor qualidade
3 Meu pirão primeiro
4 Cara de cruel
5 Todo enrolado
6 Velha demais
7 Matemática do feijão
8 Boi que morre na minha fazenda
9 Greve dos ladrões
10 Lei da madeira
11 Caboclo porrete
12 Tô com poderoso

Noël Rosa’s music is loved all over Brazil. His songs
have such strong lyrics, they are like Brazilian blues.
Although about 80 years old, the themes never get
boring and even today find plenty of listeners. The tracks
I recorded from from this 10″ record were polished somehow
in 1970 but sound like they come straight from the old 78
rpm plates. Lots of crackle and pop but still I could not resist
ripping them. Part from #2 by Maria Bethania and #4 and #8
by Martinho da Vila the songs are from the 30’s. If anyone
has a restoring program, that would be helpful, thanks.

tracks;

1 Aracy de Almeida – Ultimo desejo
2 Maria Bethania – Três apitos
3 Orlando Silva – Dama do cararé
4 Martinho da Vila – Conversa de botequim
5 Aracy de Almeida – Palpite infeliz
6 Marilia Baptista e Noël Rosa – Quem ri melhor
7 Almirante – O orvalho vem caindo
8 Martinho da Vila – Com que roupa