By Kika Serra
For the complete playlist click 'Read More' link below This extended, 500th episode of the Caipirinha Appreciation Society show (launched in 2004, the year podcasts were invented) features testimonials from some of old-school artists as well as artists who have been growing and developing their careers in parallel to the show. We hear messages from Juçara Marçal and Kiko Dinucci (Metá Metá, Passo Torto), Skowa (Skowa e a Máfia, Trio Mocotó), Fábio Trummer (banda Eddie, Trummer SSA), Rafael Castro, Andreia Dias (former Dona Zica), Alfredo Bello (DJ Tudo), Felipe S (Mombojó), Alvinho Lancellotti (Fino Coletivo), Marco André, DJ Dolores, Adalberto Rabello (Numismata, Judas), Thiago Melo (1/2 Dúzia de 3 or 4 ),Pedro Luís (PLAP, Monobloco), Romanholli (Picassos Falsos), Tostoi (Vulgue Tostoi), Gilber T (ex-Tornado, current Seletores de Frequência), Alex Sant'Anna (Naurêa), Zé de Riba... 
By MdC Suingue
The word that serves as theme to this episode, 'juiz' - which can be translated both as a 'judge' in the legal system and as the 'referee' in field sports - was chosen because at the time of the live broadcast Sérgio Moro, the judge who manipulated the 2018 presidential elections in Brazil by having the most popular contender arrested, was the subject of a series of journalistic pieces by Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept revealing some pretty obscure interactions between Moro and the prosecution... 
By MdC Suingue
For the complete playlist click 'Read More' link below With a career spanning from 1974 to 2002, the exiled drag duo Les Etoiles is virtually unknown in Brazil. It was created by Luiz Antônio Moraes da Silva and Rolando Faria, both of whom had a singing a carrier in Brazil; Luiz Antonio featuring in albums by Rilldo Hora and Dom Salvador and Rolando as part of Ronald Mesquita’s Central do Brasil. Rolando was recording an album with Central do Brasil in Barcelona when he decided not to go back to Brazil. Soon after he met Luiz Antonio and they formed Les Etoiles... 
By MdC Suingue
Born to a Rio de Janeiro middle class family, she flirted with bossa nova, MPB and even forró. Her singing career was launched in the mid 1960s when she had her first hit, ‘Andanças'. But all that was before she became a full-time sambista and dived into the world of the suburbs, Lapa, favelas and the music from avery different reality from the one she was born into... 
One of the most celebrated supernatural entities in Brazilian culture is Saint George AKA São Jorge, Ogum or Oxossi in Brazil and Sant Jordi in Catalonia.
The guy is not even a saint anymore, but in his day (23 of April) the chap is celebrated in many places around the globe (yes, the globe IS round). He is at the same time the patron saint of cavalry and police, but he is also patron saint criminals and drug dealers; in some parts of Brazil he is Ogum, in others he is Oxossi; some says he is Turkish, others say he is Palestinian, but now we discovered that yet others say that in reality he is Egyptian! Confused? Popular culture is confusing ! ... 
He was the owner of one of the few temples of samba left in Copacabana, a neighborhood that was home to dozens of live music places back in the 50s/60s. Bip Bip was a bar he ran with no intention of becoming rich, but to keep busy and make a decent enough living whilst providing punters with lots of beer, music and culture. He treated the bar as an extension of his living room: you were his guest, to the extent that you were expected to fetch your own beer in the fridge! Since the eighties - when he bought the bar and began organizing his famous ‘rodas de samba’ - his bar acquired a reputation as a point of resistance - culturally and politically. The 19 square meters that initially gathered the likes of Cristina Buarque, Elton Medeiros, Walter Alfaiate and Zé Keti shaped a new generation of sambistas that learned the old songs and are now creating their own repertoire, perfectly befitting their distinguished elders. We too have our personal Alfredinho tale to tell... 
By MdC Suingue
Click for CAS 468 Resistance Sometimes in life we find ourselves in a crossroads of history. Sometimes we don’t even notice there is a crossroads, sometimes it’s so clear and obvious that it scares us. We feel paralized. If we take the wrong turn there is no way back without a lot of struggle, suffering and even risk of death. We know what is the right path, we shout and scream to the crowd moving in the wrong direction,but they seem deaf and blind. The choice Brazil is facing in this 2018 Presidential Elections are cristal clear: Democracy or dictatorship. Civilization or barbarism. Human rights or death squads. Civilian government or Military coup. Freedom of speech or censorship. Religious freedom or fundamentalism. It is obvious that the CAS crew has chosen its side in that struggle, but... 
CAS Cafundó was recorded a week after a long chat with Maga Bo at Caipirinha Libre 128. Click to CAS Cafundó Click to Caipirinha Libre 128 For the show in Spanish we didn’t have a way to properly set up his gear in the studio, so we’ve just played tracks from some of his projects with his label Kafundó Records while he...
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