Brazilian Music and Dance

[Jan 156]

This dance is "forr", everybody in northeast of Brazil love this kind of dance haha.

Maybe you can try like. Well lets go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2oJQhs2KHE

That was a very old post. I only happened to notice your reply when I popped on to see if anyone was enjoying and commenting on Carnaval this year.

I am afraid you are very mistaken – as are many Paulistos and Paulistanos about things in the North (Belem is North, not North-East). I dance forro as well, if not brilliantly enough for social. Belem Calypso is more like a fast salsa to a samba beat (Yes, it's a fast dance, not slow, like forro). You can get an idea from watching the old brega band, Banda Calypso, although the version they dance on stage is a 'show' version. When you go to the big nightclub in Belem, the youngsters dance excellent Calypso, accurately and very fast. But only for the first hour or so while everyone is still fairly sober and the dance floor is not too crowded. (For mongering, that club is also near a very large upmarket mongering club, with disco, restaurant and rooms by the hour or overnight -- one of the best of its kind outside of Sao Paulo.

In answer to my (now exceedingly old) post, yes I found a Calypso teacher. In fact when I saw the post I at first thought it was someone else asking. Well if you travel that far one day perhaps you will enjoy. Though not for Carnaval!

Kind regards.

[Paulisto]

I know this is a very long shot. If you have had Calypso lessons in Belem from a teacher you thought was ok could you send me contact details please? (am looking for intermediate level).

I can look in the newspaper and so on as much as anyone else and have places where I can go to ask, but would quite like to start lining something up before I get there this time. So just on the off-chance that someone happens to have a specific contact . . .

(In case anyone's wondering WTF, 'calypso' is fast dance that's native to Para.)

This dance is "forró", everybody in northeast of Brazil love this kind of dance haha.

Maybe you can try like. Well lets go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2oJQhs2KHE

[Ryjerrob]

No need to comment (specially not as you keep changing your post all the time).
However, I do have to admit that I'm curious about what "truninha" means.

Truninha = Big Daddy!!!!

[Ryjerrob]

There are a ton of videos on YouTube for the song Pernão Sarado by MC Marcio. My favorite is the one below.

I've tried to find a place where I can buy/download that song, but so far am only able to find streaming sites. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-54buJ1_II

http://www.4shared.com/get/HLWoBBz2/...no_Sarado.html

[Bimbo Boy]

I can't help it, every time that I hear this song, I cry :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NCvDg6E3JQ
From a musical point of view, it is a masterpiece. Just a few instruments (caraquinho, cuica, tambor), just the necessary musical notes, not one is superfluous.

Here is a translation of the lyrics :

Eviction in the Favela

When the official representative of Justice,
came there, in the favela.
And against his own wishes, he delivered to Mr Narciso the notice of eviction.
It was signed by an important official.
The notice said that in 10 days the favela must be empty and all the barracks destroyed.
It is an order from above, it is a superior order.
Ôôôôôôôô, my God, it is an order from above, it is a superior order.
Ôôôôôôôô, my God, it is an order from above, it is a superior order.
It is OK Mr important official, it is OK,
Tomorrow I will leave my barrack.
It is OK Mr important official, it is OK,
I will leave this place quickly because I do not want to hear the noise of the bulldozer destroying my house.
For me there is no problem, because I can find room in any place, I will find a way, any way.
Because what I own is so little, I have so few things, that I can carry them in the back pocket of my trousers.
But the other people who are losing their houses, hé, what will they do ?
But the other people who are losing their houses, hé, what will they do ?

[Jan 156]

I know this is a very long shot. If you have had Calypso lessons in Belem from a teacher you thought was ok could you send me contact details please? (am looking for intermediate level).

I can look in the newspaper and so on as much as anyone else and have places where I can go to ask, but would quite like to start lining something up before I get there this time. So just on the off-chance that someone happens to have a specific contact . . .

(In case anyone's wondering WTF, 'calypso' is fast dance that's native to Para.)

[Chezz]

There are a ton of videos on YouTube for the song Pernão Sarado by MC Marcio. My favorite is the one below.

I've tried to find a place where I can buy/download that song, but so far am only able to find streaming sites. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-54buJ1_II

[Jan 156]

Crikey, we get a thread for Brasilian music, why the bitching? Please. Music is something to share. And a matter of personal taste. There's a lot of 'shitty' Brasilian music I like cos of the memories it brings me. Or the dances I had. Or falling over with laughter as people karaoked and mimed to Banda Calypso. Or marvelling at how Sangalo could have a mass concert on the beach with only a day or two's notice and minimal security. Or the street musician selling her albums in Belem. The Ao Vivo music videos in the wh0rehouses there, or the all-nighter bands playing the big venues. The rarer stuff from secluded corners of the street markets. Condomble chants that invoke a gentle purity. The intensity of samba songs in the quadra or as we dance the length of sambodrome. The same roots in old movies or picked up at street fairs. Enjoying the breeze from the balcony as the band warms up in the intimate atmosphere of Rio's CCC. The smile on a girl's face as we realise we both deeply love the same song. I'm not a musician. I'm always interested in what sort of music a garota enjoys. It's a way of relating. Arguing the toss over what is 'good' reminds me of die-hard jazz fanatics who lose any atmosphere by getting heated over technicalities. I'm sure there's a place for that. And it's secondary.

When I was a kid we would have apple fights (throwing tiny hard apples from the trees) with our neighbours in an argument about whether the Beatles were better than the Rolling Stones. WTF.

[Prosal]

I'm curious about what "truninha" means.

You're such a petty quibbler. I'm not surprised though. Wit isn't a quality of yours, isn't it ?

Is a typo all you've found to prove to the world how you're an expert about Brasil and how others aren't, Sperto, my little truTinha ?

[Sperto]

...Spertinho, my little truninha...

No need to comment (specially not as you keep changing your post all the time).
However, I do have to admit that I'm curious about what "truninha" means.

[Prosal]

Many brazilians love those "stupid gooses singing shitty bahianian hits".
Ivete Sangalo has over 12 millions albums sold.
Daniela Mercury sold about the same amount of albums.

And ? ... Leandro e Leonardo sold some 26 millions albums. That's just the proof that many brasilians are burros just good to appreciate commercial shit.

Seems you're part of the mass BTW.

That's a question that occurred to me as well.

I know you have an unfailing and inflexible love for everything brasilian (admittedly especially for the faveladas involved in low-end mass prostitution) and you don't suffer to hear anything negative about Brasil but I didn't know you cared that much, Spertinho, my little truninha. Nonetheless, thinking about it, maybe you have come to the conclusion that you're a true ISG icon, that this is your board and that you have some moral right to chide anyone who dare to offer about this coutry other perspectives from the usual ones that and your twin mongers promote.

Sorry to participate to this - good - thread and disturb you in your virtual kingdom, but I reiterate : yeah, axe is just commercial shit, a music for burros.

Why don't you complain to Jackson that I dared to say bad words about Ivete ...an intolerable behavior ...ask him to ban me for this provocation. lol

[Sperto]

...Ivete or Daniela, those stupid gooses singing shitty bahianian hits.

Many brazilians, and foreigners, love those "stupid gooses singing shitty bahianian hits".

Ivete Sangalo has over 12 millions albums sold.
Daniela Mercury sold about the same amount of albums.

Another popular Axé band is Chiclete com Banana, they have sold 13 millions albums.

Why can't I resist to post about brasilain music ?

That's a question that occurred to me as well.

[Buscemi]

Any Nação Zumbi fans here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPB0T...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppXKPUpenBQ

[Prosal]

Old School Samba.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xTTCFrAlg

Martinho owns a small bar in Rio, in Vila Isabel, named "Botequim do Martinho".

[Prosal]

Why can't I resist to post about brasilain music ?

Still bahiana music, but better than axe. More progressive. Carlinhos Brown. He's an idol in Bahia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94D1S...elated&search=