rome, embraced by the electrifying beats of the percussion ensemble. “That one’s about bodybuilding on the beach – it’s the most uncool lyric of all time. Nothing can illustrate Tom Jobims place in Brazilian popular music more appos. Then there’s another sub-genre where they’re dancing to Lisa Stansfield and swingbeat records, which as a Londoner is really weird.” This is the baile-charme scene, which dances to the beat of retro funk and soul, and Peterson’s experience of it inspired the disco-boogie cover of Valle’s song “Estrelar”. “If you’re in Rio and you go to a party in Lapa, they will be playing old soul records and boogie records, Earth Wind and Fire, stuff like that. At the moment there’s loads of DJs playing old Brazilian beats and rare stuff like I was 20 years ago.”īrazil’s musical landscape is as vast as the country itself, but the current trend for going back to the future is widespread.
So the whole hip-hop turntablism movement means that young Brazilians have discovered their old music. “But the weird thing is, now you’ve got Jay-Z sampling Marcos Valle. “Brazil’s like anywhere else: they’re always looking for the next big thing,” he continues. All it took was an animated push from the Disney studios to make it a worldwide hit. “They were like, ‘What are you doing? This is what our grandparents are into!’ They wanted me to bring acid house over or acid jazz, which was my London thing.” band was swinging samba with Aquarela do Brasil (Brazil). But when he first got the opportunity to DJ in Brazil, 20 years ago, he wrong-footed clubgoers with his old-school selection. Partly, Brasil is a tribute to the historic sounds and styles that Peterson has consumed obsessively since his teenage years. Many of those artists are huge stars in Brazil but virtually unknown elsewhere: they include the blue-eyed bossa nova maestro Marcos Valle, dreadlocked samba superstar Seu Jorge, sultry actress-singer-poster girl Emanuelle Araujo, and septuagenarian Elza Soares, the Brazilian Tina Turner, who pours a lifetime’s heartache into the album’s tear-jerking highlight, “Aquarela Do Brasil”.
The album features a mix of covers and new songs performed by a stellar roster of Brazilian artists, young and old, and sourced and produced by Peterson with the help of the Rio-based producer Alexandre Kassin. YearAlbumAll Credits Accompaniment Additional Music Composer Co.
However, for those looking for a superior World Cup soundtrack, the standout option is Brasil Bam Bam Bam, by the Sonzeira collective, a new supergroup helmed by the venerable BBC Radio 6 DJ Gilles Peterson. The nation’s TVs, radios and tablets will reverberate with clattering samba rhythms – and there will doubtless be a carnival of compilation albums with Copacabana bikini girls on the cover at a petrol station near you. With the World Cup kicking off in Brazil next month, Brazilian music will be the sound of our summer.
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