The sound of the berimbau takes you to a calm place where you can be quiet inside yourself. You can listen to your inner silence. It is like a meditation almost; the sound makes you so peaceful and at the same time it strikes very deep... Something of nature is in that sound.
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Naná Vasconcelos, 1944-2016. (Centro Cultural Kirchner)
Thursday - March 10, 2016 Thu - 03/10/16
 
 
rantnrave:// Is SONY about to dump DR. LUKE? Yes, screamed a headline in THE WRAP on WEDNESDAY morning. But a close reading of the anonymously sourced blockbuster "exclusive" reveals that none of the site's sources actually says that. MATT DONNELLY's piece, artfully constructed with the passive voice ("SONY MUSIC is expected to..." but "It's currently unknown how," etc.) literally says nothing you didn't know before you started reading it. It doesn't quote anyone directly saying what the company plans to do. It does, however, attempt to suggest that SONY management believes KESHA has no contractual case against DR. LUKE or the label "but they can’t afford the ADELEs of the world out in the streets calling the label unsupportive," in case you weren't clear on how sexual assault cases are discussed in corporate boardrooms. The headline, which spread all over the web with no additional reporting by anyone, and which DR. LUKE's lawyer later denied, may or may not turn out to be true, but as of this writing there were no facts to fact-check, so let's just move on... In a very different contractual matter, the producers of NBC's "SONGLAND" did the right thing, belatedly... GEORGE MARTIN on JOHN LENNON: "He was never a person of nuts and bolts. The bitter truth is music is nuts and bolts, you’ve got to bring it down to horse hair going over a bit of wood, people blowing into brass tubes. You’ve got to get down to practicalities." PAUL MCCARTNEY on GEORGE MARTIN: "If you're stuck, if you say to him, 'Eh, excuse me, what are we going to do?,' he'll take the problem. He won't kind of just go. 'ohhhhawwwgggh.' He knows that's his job: 'Well, how's about this?' Work it out some way." If you want to know exactly what a producer can do, and what GEORGE MARTIN did do for the BEATLES, those two quotes, in a way, tell you everything you need to know. We collect interviews, essays and stories in our REDEF MusicSET "REMEMBERING GEORGE MARTIN"... This week we also lost the incomparable BRAZILIAN percussionist NANÁ VASCONCELOS. RIP to him and to ANDREW LOOMIS and JON ENGLISH... BAD BRAINS guitarist DR. KNOW is recovering after nearly dying from cardiac arrest in NOVEMBER. But he's facing massive medical bills. You can help.
- Matty Karas, curator
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MUSIC OF THE DAY
via YouTube
"Africadeus (live 1983)"
Naná Vasconcelos
 
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