BrazilianMusic

Quora Answer : Music recommendation: can anyone recommend Brazilian music?

Jan 17, 2018

There is, actually, a hell of a lot of excellent Brazilian music.

But some pieces of Brazilian music aren't just excellent; they are perfect. They're like Platonic solids, you simply cannot imagine any change that could improve them.

Rosa, composed by Pixinguinha. Sung here by Marisa Monte.

Deceptively simple, but try to play it or sing it and you realize how complex it is, without sounding gratuitously "clever". Just beautiful, haunting melody. Both wistful and optimistic. It jumps all over the place, but every note is right.

Mas Que Nada - Jorge Benjor.

This, of course, is the ultimate Brazilian party anthem that everyone around the world already knows. But you never need an excuse to listen to it a couple more times. An incredibly flexibly tune that you can do anything with and it's a blast. Everything you think you want from "Brazilian" music.

Let's just hear it again, this time with feeling.

Atoladinha - Bola de Fogo (probably with Tati Quebra Barraco, though I'm not 100% sure.)

This is the definitive, flawless jewel of baile funk. The equivalent of the perfect 2 minute punk single. A full-on blast of raw, youthful energy : optimistic, silly, sexy, braggadocious. No connection with the history of Brazilian music (which is quite refreshing considering how backward looking Brazilian musicians tend to be), just spiky awkward rhythms, random samples that sound like they don't know why they're there or what they're meant to be doing. And shouting! But it's utterly exciting.

O Mundo é um Moinho, by Cartola, sung here by Ney Matogrosso.

The "parents' revenge" song you've always wanted. If you ever feel like laying a bitter, passive-aggressive guilt-trip on your stupid, entitled offspring then Cartola is your man. "The world's a mincer, kiddo! And it's gonna grind your stupid dreams to dust!"

Madeira do Rosarinho by Capiba

Another incredibly beautiful, and awesomely performed carnival (this time Frevo) hit with hilariously banal lyrics. This time the sentiment (of the carnival block after a particularly galling defeat) is "we wos robbed! we're the rightful winners whatever the judges say".

Still, those girls from the Bloco de Saudade make it sound so classy.

Quora Answer : Can you tell me the name of the 60s/70s Latin American (possibly Brazilian) rock, pop, folk band that was active during the revolution and have a YouTube video where the lead singer is shirtless? I recall their makeup is said to have inspired Kiss

Aug 24, 2019

You are probably thinking of Ney Matogrosso / Secos & Molhados - Sangue Latino

Ney Mattogrosso is kind of like Brazil's answer to a hybrid of Iggy Pop and Marc Bolan.