Brazilian contribution to disco and funk. 70's/80's.

[Blaxman]

If you think brazilian music is only "samba" or "bossa nova"... you're quite wrong! Check it out (if possible to you)some of the following songs. I think that some of it are available in Audiagalaxy.



Banda Black Rio - Miss Cherryl (this song

was made in honor of Cherryl Lynn - on tour in Brazil by that time)



Tim Maia - Racional Culture (awesome funky)



Tim Maia - Descobridor dos Sete Mares (horn driven funk)



Tim Maia - Sossego (mid-tempo horn driven funk)



Tim Maia - Vale Tudo (Disco, disco!!!)



Gerson "King" Combo - Mandamentos Black (quite funky - a James Brown "wannabe")



And many more. I'll post more in the future. I hope you enjoy.



Peace,



Blaxman





Peace,

Blaxman.

[orangefunk]

I love Brazilian music, haven't heard any brazilian disco but there is plaenty of jazz stuff out there like Azymuth (remember Jazz Carnival?)



as an aside I just finished a little Brazilian funk tune meself...



http:\www.lancs.ac.ukugloughranbrasilian_haze192.mp3



I played all the parts.. I guess I was inspired by Azymuth, George Duke and Manfredo Fest..



I hope this kinda music takes someones fancy..



Peace

Orangefunk

[Blaxman]

Orangefunk.



Your answer is not. The tracks listed in my post are very similar to american disco. Banda Black Rio and Tim Maia are looks like Earth, wind and Fire/Kool & the Gang songs. I like azimuth too and... hey!!! I'm going right now check your song. I have some song

that I write with a friend (now living in london), it's instrumental minimalist funk.

(Drums,bass,guitar and some samples)



Peace,



Blaxman



P.S. If you can, hear the listed songs. It's a must!!

[Paulo]

Hello Blaxman!

These artists you mentioned where 70's soul artists. As the time passed they were respected as musicians and had credibility.



But there were others who were not the case: we also had our disco stars: female singers/groups like Lady Zu and Frenetica... and many others, too efemeral to mention who were slashed by the media of the time as "pop overnight passing sillyness" (they were indeed).



Most of the good soul bands Blaxman mention had their 70's albums released on CD for the first time in 2001.



Were are you from Blaxman???

[Fantomas]

I.m not too familiar with Brazilian music, but whatever I've heard, it is good---not to say that all of it is, but what I've heard.

By the way, the Chocolat's first album is very Brazilian sound oriented and it's correctly titled "Brazilia Carnival". The Chocolat's is an European group made up, I guess, of Spaniards, Cubans, and even Brazilians---I guess. I don't know much this group's history but I like their sound a lot.

[Blaxman]

To Paulo:



Alo Paulo, eu sou de Porto Alegre. Bom saber de outro "Brazuca" por aqui. Voce deve ter notado o meu ingles "macarronico".

Tudo bem, o importante e' a musica, certo?



Eu conheco tambem Lady Zu, Uniao Black...e

hoje em dia Funk Como Le Gusta e outros. Eu devo postar mais sugestoes para os nossos co-legas do resto do mundo em breve. E eles terao seu lugar.



Grande abraco,



Blaxman

[Blaxman]

To Fantomas:





Well... the song listed in this post are not typical (regular) brazilian songs, but american style songs (with "musical accent" of course). However, no "carnivals" or no latin rythms are present on it. Some of it has lyrics in english (as seen on the title) and others in portuguese naturally.



Again, I recommend. Listen. They are worthy.



Thanx and peace,



Blaxman

[dj_coolcut]

I'd like to add also, in my opinion, a good brazilian funk (in part disco oriented)lp i own..it's a 1977 same album by Uniao Black. Among the track i prefer Geracao Black, Black Rio and Laco Negro.

[Blaxman]

Yeaahhh, coolcut!!!



Do you know Uniao Black!! Awesome band, the track Black Rio rocks. Great instrumental track. It's a very obscure band even in Brazil where the Banda Black Rio is much more famous and recently was reactivated by the son of its late bandleader.



Peace,



Blaxman

[Bernie]

On 2002-04-11 16:19, Blaxman wrote:

To Paulo:



Alo Paulo, eu sou de Porto Alegre. Bom saber de outro "Brazuca" por aqui. Voce deve ter notado o meu ingles "macarronico".

Tudo bem, o importante e' a musica, certo?



Eu conheco tambem Lady Zu, Uniao Black...e

hoje em dia Funk Como Le Gusta e outros. Eu devo postar mais sugestoes para os nossos co-legas do resto do mundo em breve. E eles terao seu lugar.



Grande abraco,



Blaxman

Blaxman,



Thanks for all the great posts, but please post in English so we can all understand. Thanks.

[JussiK]

Brazil also contributed the singer Gretchen. This woman put out euro-flavoured disco tracks "Freal le Boom Boom" and "Me Gusta Le Cha Cha" and sounded just like she looked like, a mating of Charo and Max von Sudow.

[Paulo]

Fala Blaxman!!!!!



Cara, teu inglês é ótimo. Valeu pela resposta. Eu estou no Rio de Janeiro. Um forte abraço!!!!!!!!



Forgive Bernie. I am just greeting Blaxman in an our language. I couldn't resist. It won't happen again.



Blaxman, there is another brazilian in this board: Boodika... She said she is from Bahia living in New York City, isn't it Boodika??????



Thank you Blaxman

Paulo

[Graham_Start]

Brazilian 60s/70s jazz/funk seems to be very sought-after in my town. There's a shop here that sells these records for huge sums of money; i.e. $100 - $400 Cnd per LP.

[orangefunk]

I sold the fusion LP "Marcos Resende and Index" from 1978 for £60 on ebay last year.. I got it from Brazil for $5!!

[Blaxman]

On 2002-04-11 21:31, Bernie wrote:



Blaxman,



Thanks for all the great posts, but please post in English so we can all understand. Thanks.

I'm sorry Bernie, I just hailed Paulo in

portuguese, was just a hello in brazilian

style.I'll not repeat.



By the way, yesterday I've talk about your

site with another friend of mine and we both

agreeded in one point: GREAT SITE man!!!

You're a hero!! Huge job I believe.



Thanks for all,



Blaxman



P.S. I'm afraid my english is not so good.