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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: De Concierto Con Jaques Morelenbaum

5107 days ago
All About JazzEl violonchelista y arreglista Jaques Morelenbaum estA desde el pasado jueves en Barcelona, tras una semana de ensayos en Hamburgo con la NDR Big Band y el cuarteto de Omar Sosa. MA sico apasionado por la mA sica (parece un truismo, pero no lo es), ... more info

Live review: Seu Jorge and his band Almaz at Club Nokia

5213 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & HissA charismatic pop chameleon and his band subtly but decisively transform cover tunes. For Brazilian musicians, imitation is not only the sincerest form of flattery but sometimes of creativity as well. Tropicália founders Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso... more info

friday morning updates

5215 days ago
Totally FuzzyIshkabibliophile said... A girl group mixtape He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' Bananarama Chains The Cookies Needle In A Haystack The Velvelettes Bhang, Bhang, I'm a Burnout Dum Dum Girls You're No Rock N' Roll Fun Sleater-Kinney Nobody Knows What's Go... more info

Gilberto Gil | World music review

5232 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonThe former Brazilian minister of culture advised hecklers that he "wouldn't be playing the hits – only forró, just for a change", and proceeded to continue the musical experiments that he began back in the 60s. Since the... more info

Points of culture: what Brazil can teach Britain about art | Jude Kelly

5236 days ago
Guardian MusicA series of debates at the Southbank Centre shows how Brazil understands things that supposedly 'developed' countries don't – not least about the transformative social power of artTwenty years ago, it seemed as if Brazil couldn't stop dreaming abou... more info

Céu | World music review

5240 days ago
Guardian MusicHackney Empire, LondonThis is a great time for Brazilian music in London, with those celebrated veterans of the 60s Tropicália movement, Os Mutantes, Maria Bethânia and Gilberto Gil, all appearing at Festival Brazil on the South Bank. But for new m... more info

This week's new live music

5243 days ago
Guardian MusicFestival Brazil, LondonAlmost exactly 40 years ago, a bunch of frazzled Brazilians made their way to the stage at the Isle Of Wight festival, and played an impromptu set. Temporarily displaced from their Ladbroke Grove squat – and more permanently ... more info

Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso in London

5244 days ago
Guardian MusicIn 1969, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso were exiled by their country's military dictatorship. Their years in London influenced Brazilian – and British – music for everIt's August 1970 and there are 600,000 people in a field in the Isle of Wight ... more info

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Sergio Mendes' 'Bom Tempo' and 'Bom Tempo Brasil

5287 days ago
All About JazzEarlier this year the great Brazilian artist Gilberto Gil toured the United States performing what he referred to at UCLA's Royce Hall as a "very simple concert": vocals, cello and two guitars. Gil's contemporary Sergio Mendes takes the opposite t... more info

Album reviews: Sergio Mendes' 'Bom Tempo' & 'Bom Tempo Brasil'

5288 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & HissEarlier this year the great Brazilian artist Gilberto Gil toured the United States performing what he referred to at UCLA’s Royce Hall as a “very simple concert”: vocals, cello and two guitars. Gil’s contemporary Sergio Mendes takes the oppos... more info

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