Coleta Seletiva #2

Ok, kind of late, but still worth it. This week's Coleta Seletiva was started witha request from Pimpao, that apparently got cheered up by some Caipirinha and discovered the wonders of Mr. Jorge Ben Jor. By the way, I like his music better when he was still called just Jorge Ben... some people say that he changed his name because of numerology, but I also heard that the real reason is that he was trying to start an international career and didn't want people to confuse him with the famous guitarist George Benson. Anyway, after Pimpo's request I went hunting for some of the tracks and felt like listening to some more Brazilian groove, and that's what you get in this edition. There's Banda Black Rio starting the party with the amazing instrumental track "Maria Fumaca", please take notice of the perfect mix between the typical funk bass and the typical samba percussion. After this we head off with Mr. Ben and some of his best tunes, I would say "Errare Humanum Est" is my favorite from these ones. Than Wilson Simonal comes with a version of "Nana", a song composed by Moacir Santos, with lyrics by Mario Telles, and turned into a classic of MPB, recorded by more than 100 artists. And if good versions is what we're after, than Toni Tornado shows us his rendition of a James Brown song in his "Sou Negro". And that's the spirit we go through to the end with highlights from Tim Maia, Bebeto, Trio Ternura, Di Melo and another instrumental gem to close everything beautifully. Definately a good soundtrack for the next party! See you than!



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Coleta Seletiva #1

Ok, I decided to start a kind of fixed section here, which I'll call Coleta Seletiva, and it's basically every thursday or friday I'll put here some of the music that I've been listening during the week. For this first issue we start with Little Joy, band that has Rodrigo Amarante from Los Hermanos and Fabricio Moretti from the Strokes, they just released their first album and it's quite nice. Than we have the new project from Devendra Banhart, called Megapuss, followed by the Fleet Foxes, an american band that does folk music and reminds me of groups like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and The Birds. Death Vessel is the next band, but I don't know much about them, just discovered it today, but I think it's pretty cool anyway. After that we have Wilco, great band from Chicago, so you can say it's my homage to Mr. Obama. And closing this first Coleta Seletiva we have a Leonard Cohen moment, first with himself singing his "Tower of Song" and than with Katie Melua doing her version of "In My Secret Life". Hope you enjoy.

Cheers!

Coxa



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