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07-05-09 18:17 #20
Posts: 97Bebel Gilberto has a few geat remixes of classics.
Check out Suba, "São Paulo Confessions", as well!Originally Posted by Meteko
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07-05-09 16:08 #19
Posts: 554Bebel Gilberto has a few geat remixes of classics.
Check out Suba, "São Paulo Confessions", as well!
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07-05-09 11:00 #18
Posts: 57Originally Posted by Phunluv
yet not to much dammage to your educated ears.
.Rosalia de Souza : 'garota moderna'
.BossaCucaNova : 'revisited classics' -and folowing albums
.Alexandre Capparoz : 'sexy70- sacanagem'
.Los Amigos Invisibiles : 'gozadera' - and the next two albums
.Yerba Buena : 'follow me'
.Zuco103 : 'outro lado' and the live album
. on a more classic note : the latest Seu Jorge (AmericaBrazil),
Trio Mocoto, or even Curumin
enjoy,
M
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07-04-09 18:15 #17
Posts: 1428FYI: gpguia
It's not down. I tried several proxy sites to access gpguia and keep getting 403 error, access forbidden. Looks like they've been more successful at blocking access to it from outside Brazil.
A quick search found one proxy site that gives limited access: http://www.projektorimusic.com
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07-03-09 20:21 #16
Posts: 262Originally Posted by Christopherd
I figured the stuff of Jobim, Veloso, and some of the other older-school are like the "gringo stereotype" of Brazilian music, i.e., Corcovado and the Girl from Ipanema, so I just want to avoid anything corny on the playlist that might kill the mood.
Thanks again and hope everyone has a great 4th of July. Fire up that grill!
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07-03-09 14:00 #15
Posts: 2345Originally Posted by Phunluv
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07-03-09 13:34 #14
Posts: 2345Originally Posted by Phunluv
I was in Belem earlier this year (musically a very rich place) and a band called Pixote was pretty popular for dancing and listening to in the sleaze houses. Their Ao Vivo album is easy on the ear and easy to dance to. Some of their stuff sounds more like pagode* I think but the differences can get a bit blurry to my non-Brasilian ear. The Super Vetron collections were also quite big, although I personally find them a bit irritating.
ie sort of like very slow laid-back samba (wot I can't do)
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07-03-09 07:25 #13
Posts: 262Thanks for the input
Thanks for the advice fellas. I'll think I'll just take a few classes of each genre and then see how it goes, how I feel about it.
I agree with what some others said, that the gdps are more interested in my wallet than my dance skills; I just want to add a skill that might come in handy now and then.
I also agree about the language thing being more important. I'll definitely spend more energy working on that than on anything else before my next trip.
Some other guys mentioned the differences between forro and salsa. I'll have to agree. I've danced too much salsa over the years so I know I'll have some challenges adjusting to the forro basic step.
On a similar topic. . . while I revere the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, I'm assuming that music is considered old-fashioned by your average GdP.
Any recommendations of music I can purchase or download to play on the laptop when I bring a garota over? I usually have some generic house/techno already programmed but it would be cool to know what these girls really dig, although I don't really care for that baile funk stuff. I'll play a couple of funk tracks if I have to, but then I'll go back to the house tracks that I know have been global hits, or even some rock (U2, etc.) or 80's classics.
By the way, I just ordered a CD from Amazon of Martinho da Vila. I love that song of his Mulheres, I want to learn how to sing that, lol. I'm hoping some GdPs dig that kind of stuff, but if not, I'll adapt as always. . .
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07-03-09 06:56 #12
Posts: 97Originally Posted by Christopherd
That phrase 'supportive to a fault' echoes with me.
I don't mind people giggling at my whitey moves. But I don't want my moves stopping anyone from doing their thing.
(I have a favorite dance partner in Santiago de Cuba, raw, untrained talent, a thing of beauty, who never stops no matter what I do. And of course she smiles and laughs the whole time. It's heaven.)
Can you (or anyone) also suggest accessible forro tunes or musicians?
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07-03-09 01:04 #11
Posts: 2345Originally Posted by Pelongera
I've also been to the Carlinos de Jesus school in Botafogo, which has the advantage of location if you're staying in Rio - just a 100 yards or so across the road from Rio Sul. But it's very much more 'posh'. There's great deals on dance wear (esp shoes) but I prefer CCC. When I arranged private classes with Rosangela she offered to teach me at my hotel (Ibis - across the road) to save costs. As it turned out, we managed to get the use of the empty studio below the jazz club if I came at a time when staff were there (in the kitchen) but when no-one else was using the studio.
So my personal recommendation would be for CCC, whether private or classes. I liked the teachers at Carlinos as well but the ones I had for forro were more like excellent dancers who happened to teach - Rosangela, on the other hand, was serious about the technique of teaching.
Of course, other people's experience may be quite different. And a lot depends on where you're staying. There's also other teachers that aren't associated with these bigger schools - some are really great - but it's a case of tracking them down as some have little fixed teaching pattern/place or even the same mobile phone number from one month to the next.
I hope you find what you want - and perhaps you will have some tips of your own afterwards - I'm always keen to hear.
of course, if you manage to find a GDP with something between her ears as well as her legs, you may get some unofficial tips. This only works if they have no agenda - eg they've already been paid and aren't stalking you for other goodies. VM girls can be fun cos they'll laugh at you when you screw up so you know you've got it wrong, whereas a teacher is sometimes 'supportive' to a fault. I'd always practice the supposedly 'cool' stuff I'd learnt with the happy putas of the succulent village lol . . .
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07-03-09 00:58 #10
Posts: 142Originally Posted by Christopherd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp6qPjSOoD4
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07-02-09 16:21 #9
Posts: 97Originally Posted by Christopherd
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07-02-09 15:35 #8
Posts: 63Originally Posted by Phunluv
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07-02-09 14:57 #7
Posts: 2345The dance of NE Brasil is calypso. Kind of very fast jive with footwork similar to samba and some distinctive moves. But I don't know of it being danced outside of Para - Belem and so on. The Rio dance teachers I've met won't even touch it.
But forro is everywhere. I think brasilians learn forro when they learn to breathe.
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07-02-09 14:43 #6
Posts: 2345I don't count myself as an expert by any means, but personally I think forro is a good skill to have in Brasil and I'm always trying to improve. Mostly with non-gdps perhaps, but it can go down well if you slum in VM for a long time. It is also a sort of base communication and can cover cracks in language. Few people in Brasil can't do a basic forro although a few -esp Paulistas - might think it's beneath them.
I found dancing salsa more a hindrance than help when I started forro, but that's cos of the similarity. The way the beats are used is different and it's very much more relaxed and informal I think. The two are quite different.
You can also dance salsa in Brasil though it's more of an elitest thing, something you dance at salsa clubs. Whereas forro is for any bar or concert where appropriate music is playing.
ps if you're dancing with a girl in a bar who does samba, you can dance salsa (if she doesn't mind) as she dances samba - the two can work to the same music. And lucky you dancing salsa in NYC btw.