Brazilian music is the sexiest music in the world.

[BurtWorm]

Why is that?

[bertha katzenengel]

1. I don't know, but (with my limited knowledge of it) I agree.

For some reason I think of Diana Krall's version of "Besame Mucho." I don't even know if that's Brazilian -- sounds like Spanish to me; I don't even know what Portuguese sounds like -- but talk about sexy... :rowr:

[BurtWorm]

3. It sounds a lot like French.

:rowr: indeed!

PS: Think Girl from Ipanema, the original version. (PPS: Not Mrs. Miller's version. :wow: )

[imenja]

7. that's spanish

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Because Beck said so....

Oddly, I was just reading a Rolling Stone interview with Beck where he said that Brazilian music was the best to play during...well....sex.

[BurtWorm]

6. Interesting.

I should be thinking of polka. I'm at work and am losing my concentration...

[imenja]

4. have you ever been to Brazil?

It's a highly sexual culture.

[BurtWorm]

8. I never have.

But I've been listening to a lot of samba lately and I really, really want to go.

[imenja]

9. you definitley should

at least to Rio and Bahia.

What's your favorite Brazilian music?

[BurtWorm]

12. I've been listening to an album called Samba Soul 70!

It's vintage soul samba, like Trio Mocoto, Wanderlea, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Som Tre... I can't remember all the bands, but there's not a clinker on there. Last night I was listening to Os Mutantes, Tom Ze and Gilberto Gil.

PS: And Elis Regina's daughter whose name I forget. Rita Maria? Fantastic voice, different from her mother's but amazing nonetheless.

[imenja]

15. sounds great

I have a lot of Afro-Bahian music and then the classics like Caetano, Maria Bethania, Vinicius, Gilberto Gil, Joao Gilberto, etc...... I also like Jorge Bemjor, Marisa Monte, gosh, there are just so many good Brazilian musicians.

I also have some low brow music, Pagode. But I like it. It reminds me of fun times.

[BurtWorm]

16. Are you Brazilian?

Or just a Brazilophile?

[imenja]

22. Brazilophile

[MrScorpio]

17. I've got that disc too

It's hot!

[BurtWorm]

18. It has an incredible lot of great singing in one collection.

I am in love with Wanderlea. And Elis Regina. And Gal Costa. :loveya:

[MrScorpio]

19. Guanabara is my fave cut

That's a hot song

[Telly Savalas]

24. I have that CD!

It kicks ass!

[progmom]

5. That is a good question - I agree.

Portuguese is SUCH a sexy language when sung.

We need to get Ann Arbor Dem in on this discussion - she is the High Priestess of Brazilian Music.

[sui generis]

10. it's the beat

boring ol western music likes 4/4 beats (ONE two three four, ONE two three four) or 3/4 beats (ONE two three ONE two three), but "exotic" rhythms juxtapose 3 against 4 or 4 against 5, or alternate 3/4 with 4/4 or some variation on that.

So a latin beat might be "ONE two ONE two three, ONE two ONE two three" or "ONE two three four ONE two three", etc.

It's more fun to wiggle your assets to a beat that lets you take an irregular step, and more of a sexy dance when you're wiggling your assets . . .

[babylonsister]

11. Ah, Brazilian music rocks!

It's smoothe and sexy and relaxing and sexy and...

[Squeech]

13. Hemiolas

That's the musical term for holding notes across beats to generate implied polyrhythms, and that's what's going on all the time in Brazilian and (other) Latin musics.

The basic rhythm scheme for most Latin music is 3-3-2 (in eighth notes), which means that in a 4/4 bar, the first note gets held through the second beat, and then in the middle of the beat (the "and" of two) you play the next note, which gets held through the *third* beat. It's easy once you get the hang of it, but it encourages a really sinuous vibe for dancing. (Tango is slightly different: they do play the third beat, as a 3-1-2-2 rhythm.)

Samba is even more complicated, 3-3-3-3-2-2 (16th notes now) against 4/4. Bossa Nova tends to use that rhythm, but more subtly.

Hope that's clear. It's hard to talk about rhythm without actually being there and banging it out on the table.

[BurtWorm]

14. I'll have to test this when I get home to my guitar.

:toast:

[cassandra uprising]

20. damn skippy

it's being that close to the sun i think.

suba, bebel gilberto, and arto lindsay have been by brazilian favs of late.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. You've been bumping Caetano Veloso a bit too my dear

[cassandra uprising]

25. that's also true n/t

[melissinha]

21. Imenja

To answer your question the other poster, Imenja may be brazilian. Imenja sounds like a name that comes from Afro-Brazilian "witchcraft" candomblé, I think there's a goddess Iemanja.. Yeah you are right, pagode is low brow, but its good stuff... lately though I have heard some pagode that features people who can't really create a good melody or even keep a note.

You guys should really listen to the Bahian singer songwriters... Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethania, Gilberto Gil and GAL COSTA (she has the clearest soprano remeniscent of the great Ella)...

You all have convinced me to temporarily turn off Air America for some good musica brasileira.

Here's a link to streaming FM o Dia a popular radio station in Rio de Janeiro... Not necessarily classic and musically superior, but current
stuff.

http://www.musikcity.mus.br/ra/fmodia.html