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Putumayo Presents:Brazilian Playground
Review: When I read that this mix was akin to a Brazilian playground, I was expecting driving rhythms and raw instrumentation…instead I heard a gentler samba side of the creatively rich and musically diverse culture, as if the intention was to calm the children. Inside, photos capture the color of carnival processions and you’ll even find a Brazilian music glossary.
comments / tracks of interest:
#2: begins w/ children’s choir. Song popular in N.E. Brazil
#3: samba w/ gentle vocals & soothing percussion
#5: hello, traditional music w/ electronic beats
#6: forro
*#7: an infectious forro song
#8: feel good rhythms
#9: samba
#12: Gilberto Gil song done acoustically
Alien Chatter
Invasion EP 1&2
Review: Alien Chatter, a L.A., California jam band who, “conveys a sophisticated blend of contemporary jazz piano, and Indian music laced with electronica. The duo consists of Satnam Ramgotra on tabla, percussion and Rodney Lee on acoustic piano, synths, and electronics. Alien Chatter is pioneering the Indo-Jazztronica movement.”
comments / tracks of interest:
you choose for yourself, this isn’t my “cup-o-tea” type of music so it all sounds the same to me.
Amir ElSaffar
Two Rivers
“Two Rivers invokes the Trigis and the Euphrates, whose floods were forces of creation and destruction in the world’s first cities.” ~ (Amir ElSaffar). Recalling the history of his homeland Iraq, his intention with this album is to convey the joy and pain held inside the heart of these memories. ElSaffar musically confronts, “the lawlessness of the land, the struggle for survival, division, and the illusion of otherness.” The sound is traditional at times, and jazzes out now and again.
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