http://afropopshop.org/New Music From Revista do Samba on Calabash Music2008-11-21T04:53:12ZThe Calabash Music Teamsupport@calabashmusic.comOutras Bossashttp://revistadosamba.afropopshop.org/#album_294582006-12-12T07:40:55ZMusic from Outras BossasRevista Do Samba: "Outras Bossas"
You have to have these three musicians to get to the real essence of this genre. A lady and two gentlemen from São Paulo are the ones music critics and audiences alike tipped their hats to already. The three well-versed musicians have dared another crafty step onto the newly designed samba parquet. The title, “Outras Bossas” doesn’t even sound like samba at first but more like its competitor, bossa nova. But what the “Revistas” are actually doing here is dipping deep into samba’s history. They present their unusual and fiery new ideas with the same saucy wit of the old Noel Rosa epoch in a show-jump over 13 greats of Brazilian music history. The spectrum stretches across 8 decades, showing samba from its venerable traditional side as well as its highly modern one. The lyrical finesse of this band rises up like a kite away from the oh- so-usual commercial samba of today. We meet the rebelliously biting poetry of the 1930’s from Rosa and his contemporaries, the vivacious Chôro "Tico Tico" from pre-samba days, and real melancholy from the favelas with Cartola. A lovely rain forest is awakened in “Samba Dos Animais” by Jorge Mautner and the one-time rock avant-gardist and word artist Arnaldo Antunes contributes a word-playing dedication to a dancer. Last but not least, Leticia Coura can outbid her own composing talent in two “Neo-Sambas”. All the songs are marked by sensitively refined guitar and cavaquinho (ukulele) playing as well as an arsenal of drums and percussion; affable and mischievous vocals set off the lyrics, now and then the arrangements are enriched with a witty burst of horns or a xylophone. In the percussion department, prominence like Dudu Tucci makes a shining appearance.]]>Revista do Sambahttp://revistadosamba.afropopshop.org/#album_56082005-04-12T10:55:32ZMusic from Revista do SambaFrom their own repertoires, Coura, Bianchi and da Trindade have made a collection of beautiful old songs for this first CD. With the lightest of modern sensibilities, Revista do Samba revive the feeling of what samba was like at its height.]]>