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    Posted: January 10 2011 at 23:07
Anyone ever give this music a listen? I love the guitaring/classy style of it all and the brazillian language sounds so great with the vocals. Youtube is down right now otherwise I would post some songs.

Got any nice bossa nova recs?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2011 at 23:11
Portuguese language, Brazilian variant.

João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto are your ideal starting points.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2011 at 00:19
All I can think of is Casio keyboard drum beat presets. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2011 at 01:59
Originally posted by StrengthandWisdom StrengthandWisdom wrote:

Anyone ever give this music a listen? I love the guitaring/classy style of it all and the brazillian language sounds so great with the vocals. Youtube is down right now otherwise I would post some songs.

Got any nice bossa nova recs?

From my days in Brazil, these were ... a dime a dozen ... so to speak, just like progrock or anything else.

But if you really want to trip down these areas and how some folks took that music and went further with it, you might check out the early stuff by Egberto Gismonti, which is considered "jazz" in many circles, but hardly fits that mold, with the exception of an album or two. I also used to have a lot of Milton Nascimiento and Airto Moreira ... and of course Flora Purim (Airto's wife at the time - not sure they are still together or not).

Egberto is out there .. he mixes everything and in one album at least (No Caipira) he becomes a modern day Hector Villa Lobos ... 

In general, both bossa nova and samba, are considered "street", or "popular" music, and it is a bit difficult to find a lot of this stuff taken to the next level. Or .. there is always Sergio Mendez!

Good listening!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2011 at 02:00
Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Portuguese language, Brazilian variant.

João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto are your ideal starting points.

Agreed. They pretty much made the term famous outside of Brazil and were always considered a cut above the pop music players.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2011 at 09:31
Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

All I can think of is Casio keyboard drum beat presets. 


You're not listening to the great music composed in the 50's and 60's then.



The quintessential bossa nova recording is, IMO, "Como dizia o poeta", by 'Vinicius de Moraes, Marília Medalha e Toquinho'.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2011 at 07:34
Originally posted by StrengthandWisdom StrengthandWisdom wrote:

Anyone ever give this music a listen? I love the guitaring/classy style of it all and the brazillian language sounds so great with the vocals. Youtube is down right now otherwise I would post some songs.

Got any nice bossa nova recs?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2011 at 09:56
if you want some proggy bossa nova... Canterbury's Caravan diddled with many BN rhythms....
let's just stay above the moral melee
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2017 at 16:22
I have some great bossa nova albums, see on my page
https://myvinylalbums.blogspot.com/
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2017 at 16:24
Here are some of my vinyl albums
https://myvinylalbums.blogspot.com/
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