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Various Artists - Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical '2000

Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical
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Album name Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical
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Date 2000
GenreWorld
Play time 01:04:55
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 152; 398 MB
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       Wow when did this first come out? 1989? Over 30 years ago! I listened to
some of the songs yesterday and, well, they hold up, they’re truly
timeless songs. In my notes at the time I wrote about the way this music joined
musical sophistication with memorable pop melodies and often social and
political commentary. Like Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On this
music mixed sensuality with pointed social engagement. I learned that though we
often feel like screaming we can also couch our awareness and frustrations in
beauty and rhythm—which often makes a more seductive and effective
argument than a scream—though a scream can be pretty damn cathartic for
sure. But as beautiful as the songs sound their message was pointed enough that
some of these artists were jailed and forced into exile. Beauty can be pointed.
This kind of writing, like Gaye’s and many others, invites us to rise
above, to be the change we can imagine. The music says that—while the
words might describe the situation as it is, in all it’s pain and
suffering. I saw that songwriting can do this—speak brutally and honestly
and at the same time provide a hint of a way out. I also learned that musical
sophistication like that heard in these songs is not antithetical to acceptance
by a popular audience (many of these artists and their songs were hugely
popular) and to the work being approachable and accessible. This was one of our
most popular compilations. For a while I got used to hearing this record in cool
restaurants and clothing boutiques. The label I was signed to at the time must
have not expected it to sell well, because they made a horrible licensing deal
such that they lost money on every record sold! Beat that Amazon and Spotify! We
were losing money to spread the reach of this music 30 years ago, way before
internet businesses learned to lose money in hopes of gaining market share
before their investors walked away. When this collection came out I realized
that although many Europeans and Jazz fans were already followers of Brazilian
music, many of the fans of Talking Heads and what was called New Wave music had
never heard of these songs or these artists. Like me, many who bought this
collection soon became fans of specific artists. I suspected that maybe here was
a solution to the marketing that lumped the music under the exotic banner of
“world music”—Northern folks were actually beginning to pick
out artists they liked and were following them the same way they would their
local rock and RnB groups. I began to see more non Brazilian faces at the live
shows in NY that I attended. Though this collection represents a special era in
Brazilian popular music these artists have not stood still. They’ve
continued to explore and expand what they do—some of their recent albums
are some of their best. Meanwhile, this music has served as an inspiration for
newer generations of composers and performers. By the way—the record
cover is an optical illusion thought up by the late Tibor Kalman and his studio.
If you flip the record upside down you can see that the young woman’s
hair is not falling straight down—so she’s not in fact leaning
back or swooning quite as much as it appears. She was just leaning back ever so
slightly while standing on a slanted wedge. When the wedge edge was tipped in
layout to be parallel with the bottom of the record cover it appeared that she
was in an extreme ecstatic swoon. Very smart—to visually represent what
the music FEELS like. -David Byrne, 2022 



Tracklist:
1 01. Jorge Ben - Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma) (03:52)
1 02. Maria Bethânia - Sonho Meu (02:52)
1 03. Gilberto Gil - Só Quero Um Xodó (04:53)
1 04. Caetano Veloso - Um Canto de Afoxé Para O Bloco do Ilê (Ilê
Ayê) (03:03)
1 05. Caetano Veloso - O Leãozinho (03:06)
1 06. Chico Buarque - Caçada (03:03)
1 07. Chico Buarque (part vocal Milton Nascimento) - Calice (04:03)
1 08. Lô Borges - Equatorial (03:12)
1 09. Milton Nascimento - San Vicente (02:42)
1 10. Gilberto Gil - Quilombo, o el Dorado Negro (04:42)
1 11. Jorge Ben - Caramba! ... Galileu Da Galileia (02:29)
1 12. Nazaré Pereira - Caixa de Sol (03:27)
1 13. Nazaré Pereira - Maculele (02:29)
1 14. Caetano Veloso - Queixa (04:24)
1 15. Gilberto Gil - Andar Com Fé (03:19)
1 16. Jorge Ben - Fio Maravilha (02:15)
1 17. Milton Nascimento - Anima (04:12)
1 18. Caetano Veloso - Terra (06:43)

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