Many happenings inspired me to create this podcast. First, I am a composer myself. I use to collect lots of different songs from the many composers in Brazil to study their work, and this gave me the will to show all this amazing music to people. Some years ago I found out a great website on the web, from a great producer who lives in Sao Paulo and keeps a website about pop music in portuguese language. His website is huge and popular, but it lacks many of the best and unknown brazilian songs, since it is focused in the most famous ones. I met people all around the world who loves brazilian music, so that's why I've recorded it in English, an idiom which I love. This is helpful, because I can also study the idiom. Besides, I have a homestudio, which I mounted with the will of producing my own music in the future. And on the top of that, I am a systems analyst and a blogger. After all this, I couldn't live without doing this website. So I put everything together and launched LoungeBR.Our culture was always about music and religion. Different skin colors began to live together in an misterious and awesome land, with different beliefs.There was no formal education to natives or africans, music was the only way to preserve their memory. No literature. No religious symbols allowed by the Holy Church. The portuguese idiom is the only one that has a word to express the feeling of missing something (the homeland, in this case): "saudade". This environment was highly poetic. Many lovely tales mentioning unnatural wild beings all time, everywhere. Dozens of forbidden love stories among the mix between the three skin colors. So much heat and freezing temperatures in the same place. A highly fertile earth that could grow anything you could seed on it. Time to wait for the crop. We had comfort, discomfort, time, passion, love and saudade. And the only way to pass it along, for most people, was through music.Later, all other lands in America discovered their new music also, such as blues/jazz in USA. I think in Brazil it happened first, 'cause the miscigenation happened in a much broader way, and this allowed us to get that valuable 'thing' in African rythms. We have dozens of very different and new rythms spread all over the country because of that. This new music meant 'big news' all over the world. Villa Lobos contributed to erudite, while Jo?o Gilberto and Tom Jobim had a major impact in jazz music, since the legendary Bossa Nova night in Carnegie Hall. Many big music stars, like Sinatra, Bill Evans and Michel Legrand himself, couldn't live without record some brazilian composers.Now, Let me tell you something about the greatest brazilian composers I know. During my childhood, Hermeto Pascoal lived near my house. It was this way for 14 years, in Bairro Jabour, Rio de Janeiro. He is my major idol. Not because I went there to see him, but just because of the opposite - I didn't!. When I became an addicted musician, I couldn't stop listening to his compositions, learning from that and feeling sorry about myself cause I didn't meet him personaly. He is some kind of harmonic and rythmic wizard, the composer of so many beautiful songs such as Ginga Carioca or Can??o no Paiol de Curitiba. His songs are fully inspired in Northeast rythms, such as Bai?o and Maracatu. He was born there. Another of my favorite composers is Guinga. His songs are something to study A LOT! I had already the pleasure to have him as my music advisor. He's inventing yet another very different kind of brazilian music. I am also highly influenced by broken rythms in progressive rock - Gentle Giant and Rush songs mainly. Bossa Nova from Jobim and Jo?o Gilberto, Egberto Gismonti's songs and Yamandu Costa are also part of my daily life. And jazz, of course: Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Sarah Vaughan... Together with the jazzy electronic music, such as Cafe Del Mar, Saint Germain, Jazzanova and a little of house and trance music.In LoungeBR, I am expecting to make more issues over time, bringing some pop music also. I am also planning to make interviews and videos. My wife's new album is being recorded, the very successful singer Manu Santos, who is amazing in her show. "Manu Santos ? uma cantora ?nica", as they use to say here. She is a very good singer indeed, and she's already recorded my first two compositions that I'll feature here in the future. I will get closer to other brazilian music lovers and producers over the web and work something out together with them (you guys, for example). I'll also post some of my compositions in LoungeBR, just to share some of my own music with people all around the world.
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Here you will learn some of the stories about brazilian music and rythms. You will be led over the most famous ones, and I will also introduce a great podcast where you can actually experiment all this stuff.
If you want to know a little bit more about brazilian music, you can visit LoungeBR, the brazilian music website. If you want to know more about the amazing singer Manu Santos, you can watch her freely at Manu Santos, a cantora com o show mais impactante da nova mpb.
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