September 12, 2012

Quarteto Olinda | Xinxim no Xenhenhem

Live - the Forró stage - at the Winter Festival of Garanhuns, 2009 .

September 6, 2012

Renato Braz & Bré @ TV Câmara ( 57:52 )



 In his successful career, REnato Braz released, among others, the album " Outro Quilombo", with renditions of songs by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. The work was winner of the Prêmio Visa "Edição Vocal de 2002" and praised by Brazilian critics . In 2003 , Renato was awarded the Quixote - "Best Vocals" in the Prêmio Visa MPB.  ( TV Câmara , 2010 )

August 25, 2012

Na Mira da Musica Brasileira | Bola Preta

One of the two series of " Na Mira da Musica Braseileira" to showcase artists whose careers take shape since 2000s. The pilot project took place in November 2010 at the Ibirapuera Auditorium under the artistic direction of Myriam Taubkin and Gabriel Paiva . The projects are designed to extract the synergy from a group of young and outstanding musicians whose career paths have a wide and diversed musical genres.

August 20, 2012

Cordel do Fogo Encantado | Os Oím do Meu Amor

Cordel do Fogo Encantado - from Arcoverde -  mix different Brazilian musical genres, such as Samba de Côco, Toré Indígena, Embolada, and reisado, with pop-rock melodies. The band derives its name from cordel, a type of handmade illustrated pamphlet literature made by woodcut artists in NorthEastern Brazil. 

Cordel do Fogo Encantado is associated with Pernambuco's Mangue Beat, a musical movement that is repopularizing traditional northeastern Brazilian folkloric musical genres by mixing them with rock and funk music.

Wikipedia

July 8, 2012

Barbatuques | Carcará

Barbatuques is a unique Human Beatbox ensemble, a vocal orchestra whose members strive to turn their respective bodies into real instruments; in-doing-so, the group has become an absolute reference of this particular genre. Handclaps, finger-claps, chest-beating, taps and peculiar vocal effects mingle expertly with singing and a few instruments (Jews’ harp, flute and guitar), to produce rhythms and melodies that are characteristic of Brazil: samba, baião, afoxé and maracatu.( more ) .

Byblos International Festival