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From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.
And I'm Ana Maria Sayer. Let the chisme begin.
Okay, new music this week, Ana. So let's do rock, paper, scissors to see who goes first.
Okay, but here's the thing about us doing rock, paper, scissors, Felix. What? Do you rock, paper, scissor? Or do you rock, paper, scissors, and then go? It's another beat.
I do it in threes. Boom, boom, boom.
Oh, beautiful. Then we're compatible rock, paper, scissors-ers. Okay, ready? Rock, paper, scissors.
I have rock.
I had scissors, I think.
Okay, I'll go first. And I'm excited. Okay, I've been sitting on this first track for a while. It's a compilation of field recordings from Salvador, Brazil from 1980. The album's called Candomblé, Sacred Rhythms of Brazil. And it's like part of the record is all traditional field recording stuff. The rest of the record is like all of these great remixes and reimaginings of these rhythms, but with electronics and stuff. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to play the traditional music first and then an electronic track. But first, here's the traditional. This is Ogum Festa de Xangô from the album Candomblé, Sacred Rhythms of Brazil.
Yeah!
And now I'm gonna play another track. It's a very percussive remix of a completely different song. It's from the Baile Funk DJ Sandrino, who's based in Rio. Check this out, it's called Aluja de Lanza.
There was a project I found a couple of years ago, Felix, that was like a very similar, I don't know what you would call it, experiment or expansion on rather. And it except it was from old recordings from Vietnam. And there's something really interesting about I always find about replacing some of these beats with electronic beats and seeing how they sit. It's a very different shift, I think, in where you feel the rhythm. If you replace it with an electronic beat, where does it start to sit? I think it makes you dance in a different way, it makes you feel in a different way. But there's something really structured and really sound about an electronic beat that comes from a rhythm like that to begin with, because these rhythms, they can stand the test of time.
These beats are really profoundly moving beats, And so I love to hear an electronic beat that is constructed out of something that was initially super raw and acoustic.
Yeah, and there are a lot of people who are like, no, you can't touch that stuff. Leave it alone. Don't even bother trying to remix it. The music stands on its own. There's merits to both. The very, very strict traditionalists versus these people who are doing these remixes. I'm kind of leaning toward the remix crowd, obviously. The album's called Candomblé, Sacred Rhythms of Brazil. We heard a couple of different tracks from the album. Just go out and find the whole thing. It's really, really good.
Okay, Felix, if you're going to take us to Brazil, I have to defend my honor, maintain my brand. I'm going to take us or keep us rather in Brazil. I'm skipping ahead to an album that I just discovered and I don't know how I hadn't found it previously. It's absolutely stunning. It's by a Brazilian artist named Itaio. I hope I'm saying that right. The album is called Catatau, it's his fourth studio album, and this song in particular is called Da Barriga.
Viva a vida no mercado, trabalho em feriado, mas de noite subo a ser, pra tocar o meu samba com doçura, como quem doce e costura os rios da própria terra. No caos metropolitano Já vai passar o meu trem E eu vou embora cantando A fada que dá do meu bem
Get out.
What is the Candomblé compilation and how are field recordings remixed for clubs?
Can we play the next song, please? And here's the next one, Janeiro.
We'll see you next time.
So I had to play you, that is how he intros the album.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–6:26
2
What is the Candomblé compilation and how are field recordings remixed for clubs?
6:26–15:06
3
How do electronic remixes change the feel of traditional Salvador, Brazil recordings?
15:06–28:02
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What makes Ítallo's CATATAU album stand out in modern Brazilian songwriting?
28:02–30:31
5
Which songs from Catatau showcase its jazz, samba and poetic arrangements?
30:31–32:03
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