Category: music
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Asa Branca – Luiz Gonzaga
08 March 2019 Asa Branca – Luiz Gonzaga Asa Branca – Luiz Gonzaga Written in 1947, Asa Branca is one of the most well known songs in Brazil – I’d be surprised if there’s anyone there who hasn’t heard or doesn’t recognise the unmistakable introduction. By learning this song I also learned the baião strumming…
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Ladainha – Brasília
Ladainha – Brasília On the 21st of November 2018’s music class, Mestre Poncianinho spoke about different types of ladainhas: geographical, historical… And our homework was to write a geographical ladainha. Most of it just came out while still in class and then Mestre Poncianinho helped polish it, how to best sing it and also the…
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Silvio Acarajé – A Saga do Urucungo
25 Aug 2018 – Silvio Acarajé – A Saga do Urucungo I first heard this album about 7 years ago and the first track in particular captured my ears… Still does. He released two great albums, this one and Capoeira Primitiva, a great album to practice the berimbau and learn lesser known toques. Urucungo was…
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Tem areia
(this version doesn’t mention Iemanjá, it’s a shorter version but I can’t find the fuller version anymore, it’s been deleted. This song originates from Ubanda, this version(possibly the one Capoeira version came from?) and this one – in homage to Iemanja, goddess of the sea. There are different versions of it in Capoeira too, and…