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| Baden Powell, Vinícius de Moraes |
M U S I C / WmW
if you want excitement PRESS SHUFFLE!
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1966-1959
Baden Powell
Labareda (Vinícius de Moraes / Baden Powell)
Canto de Xangô (Vinícius de Moraes / Baden Powell)
Tempo de Amor (Samba Do Veloso)(Vinícius de Moraes / Baden Powell)
from Os Afro Sambas 1966
This album was released originally in 1966 in Brasil. A collaboration with Vinicius de Moraes. And it was an absolute landmark in the bossa nova movement.
Violeta Parra
Gracias a la Vida feat. Javiera Parra (Violeta Parra)
Run Run Se Fue P'al Norte feat. Javiera Parra (Violeta Parra)
Volver a los 17 feat. Javiera Parra (Violeta Parra)
from Las últimas composiciones de Violeta Parra 1965
At the age of nine, the young girl started singing and playing guitar, soon composing traditional Chilean music. After getting married to Luis Cereceda in 1952, the singer/songwriter began touring the country, assimilating the natural charm of her native land, which mostly inspired her work. In 1954, Violeta Parra moved to Europe, deciding to settle down in France, where the artist started recording her poetic songs. When returning to Chile in 1958, Violeta Parra got involved in painting and sculpture, extending her artistic skills even more. In 1961, the singer returned to Europe, this time singing along with her daughter Isabel Parra and her son Angel Parra being responsible for keeping their mother's legacy alive.
The foremost exponent of Indian classical music, largely responsible for introducing the sitar to both pop and classical Western audiences.
Rabindra Shankar Chowdery, aka Ravi Shankar, was born on April 7, 1920, in Varanasi, India, into a well-off orthodox Brahmin family. His father, ShyÆm Shankar, was employed as a diwan (minister) by the Maharajah of Jhalawar...
Tala Rasa Ranga feat. Paul Horn
Tabla-Dhwani feat. Paul Horn
Song from the Hills feat. Paul Horn
from Portrait of Genius 1964
Ravi Shankar has been described as one of the greatest musicians on the planet. This record, one of his classic World Pacific albums, clearly lends credence to that statement. But the thing that makes this record interesting is the fact that it contains a unique fusion of Shankar and his group performing with respected jazz flutist Paul Horn. It's an extremely gratifying combination, and Horn plays with a true jazzman's restraint on the five short selections that open the record... Shankar's awesome ability and stamina is matched only by that of his ensemble, especially Alla Rakha on tabla. Essential for any fan of Shankar or Indian music. Awesome.
Eduardo Rovira was an Argentinian composer, bandaneón player, and musical arranger best known for expanding El Nuevo Tango to unpredictable lengths. If it weren't for the Lanusian composer, tango would have probably never met with such intriguing composition techniques like twelve tone and counterpoint.
Simple
Elegía Para el Amigo Negro
Contrapunteando
from Tango vanguardia 1963
1963's "Tango Vanguardia" (Tango Avant-garde) reflects this positively anti-customary thinking.
One of the album's first tracks is the string dominated "Elegía Para el Amigo Negro", this track is a nostalgic reflection of disaster that showcases Rovira's poetic expertness. It is followed by "Contrapunteando" which, like the name implies, is an example of Rovira's strange relationship with counterpoint whose academic realization is by all means amplified by Nuevo Tango's seductive verses... Of course tango music wouldn't be tango music if it went by all the dodecaphonic norms, and that is exactly where Rovira's genius comes in, 12-tone music doesn't lose its whim and nor does Rovira's cerebrally engaging tango ideals.
Replete with intelligently adjoined harmonies, poetic bandoneón lines, and marvellous execution, "Tango Vanguardia" proves itself one of Nuevo Tango's most transcendental achievements.
