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I'll use this thread to recommend brazilian music that's not so obvious to non-brazilians (so no Mutantes, Sepultura or João Gilberto), I'll try to only post a few links at once, as opposed to thirty, and mix new and old stuff. My recommendations will be to my taste, so please feel free to add your own. I won't be posting stuff I played in (most of it is in my sig if anyone cares), but there may be stuff I worked on. Over the many years of the original PRF I certainly posted some of this stuff, but I'll count all of that as non-canonical (ha), this new forum was built over the grave of the old one. For this first post everyone is from Bahia:

This involves known names but was not heard enough. Ten years ago Gal Costa released this late period album, Recanto, which was in effect a Caetano Veloso collaboration, he wrote and co-produced the whole record. This is much better than anything else either of them did this century, IMO. The instrumentation is largely electronic, but carries little in the way of electronic music references, save for a couple spots. It's pretty raw in some ways (not all of them good), and very odd in spots. It was obviously not commercially successful, and Gal abandoned this direction soon after, not before dropping the obligatory live DVD / record for the tour, as it became common practice here since the 90's for large artists. It's a playlist, one song segues into the next.



I mentioned this record before in the new forum, but it belongs here: Jadsa's debut full length, Olho de Vidro, released a couple months back. Very influenced by a lot of underground-ish brazilian music, some of which I'll post links to here eventually:



And a classic, the first 20 minutes of this compilation comprise the eight tracks of the debut Dorival Caymmi album, Canções Praieiras. Sparse, dark and beatiful, just the man and his acoustic guitar, it's borderline doomy, from 1954:

If anyone has a CD-quality rip of Walter Franco's Revolver (which I first became aware of in the previous thread), please, get in touch, can trade ya somethin'. Okay, carry on.

Bernardo wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 8:11 pm This involves known names but was not heard enough. Ten years ago Gal Costa released this late period album, Recanto, which was in effect a Caetano Veloso collaboration, he wrote and co-produced the whole record. This is much better than anything else either of them did this century, IMO. The instrumentation is largely electronic, but carries little in the way of electronic music references, save for a couple spots.

This is awesome. I love Gal and have a two disc collection, but have always found I like her first couple releases best, and then diminishing returns from there. This is a whole other thing. Very bold. I love when artists age and do something minimal and daring the way Tom Waits, or Leonard Cohen did. Very cool, thanks for sharing.

My knowledge of Gal's work is superficial, but I'm pretty sure her discography pays off (with the aforementioned diminishing returns) until the late 70's, you could try going chronologically. Her best loved work is from a little later on than the first couple records.

DaveA wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 8:19 pm If anyone has a CD-quality rip of Walter Franco's Revolver (which I first became aware of in the previous thread), please, get in touch, can trade ya somethin'. Okay, carry on.

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Loving Recanto so far. Thanks!

Selfish bump so that I remember to return to this tomorrow when I gawp at the index. Hello and thank you Bernardo! The 20 second clips I've just listened to of your links tantalise.

Great thread! When I saw you mention this I got inspired to make a similar thread for Swedish music, only I don't know if I'd have enough material to make it worthwhile. In any case I will keep an eye on this one.

This one I was introduced to by Adam Neely's channel. I'll be honest, I have listened to it repeatedly because I'm in love with the chanteuse, but the music is very good! And the dancing!

Really digging this Jadsa album!