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by MdC Suingue
for complete playlist, click READ MORE below Well, Nelson Sargento was not a young sambista, he was 94 years old, but it is still hard to accept that so many wonderful talents are still being lost to Covid19. The world of samba has been deprived of many of its artists because of this terrible tragedy that still has Brazil in its grip. Nelson had a long and productive career but his talent was rewarded with a solo album very late in his life. Its a recurrent story with many bambas, not counting the ones that are simply ignored by the industry... We noticed now that in this long and productive career Nelson had moments where he takes part in groups or scenes that we've described in previous episodes of the Caipirinha Appreciation Society. So in this blog post we are proposing an immersion in the history of Rio's samba world... 
By MdC Suingue
For complete playlist click READ MORE below So half the world's deejays are busying themselves with spitting out playlists every few minutes. What could the CAS offer that was different and inspiring? The idea suddenly dawned on us. We had stumbled upon an orisha responsible for all illness: Obaluaiê. A bit of further reading and we realize that he masters epidemic deseases in particular! But not all is doom and gloom about the deity. As a friend puts it: by making one aware of their inescapable death, Obaluaiê makes you behave more responsibly in this life. The fact that he is not one of the "pop-star" orishas means that we only found top quality information about him, making for a top quality show: music- and content-wise. Though we never tire to state that we are not experts, our friends who are seem to have approved. So listen in for all the interesting narratives about this fascinating character in the African-Brazilian mythology. More interesting trivia and videos below. 
By MdC Suingue
For complete playlist, click READ MORE below Man, the world is falling apart and the Caipirinha Appreciation Society podcast blog is late in updating its blog about the music and the times of Mr. Elton Medeiros. Though he passed away back in September 2019, we felt his legacy was not praised enough as the gentleman was not a famous face or voice for the non-initiated, though he was present in many important moments of modern samba and was writing partner to many inspired sambistas. So we decided to pay our homages and make our listeners aware of his life and work. 
By MdC Suingue
For the complete playlist, click READ MORE below In this episode: - you'll learn why we are not engineers . - If you pay attention to the lyrics you'll have the chance to get yourself a precious T-shirt in a pop quiz. Well, one day we have to end the celebrations for our 500th episode landmark, right? I hope you listeners had as much fun listening as we did making this trilogy. We have to praise Kika Serra for having the idea and the patience to compile and classify the bands according to the number of times we've played them over the years. We don’t want to place undue importance on that list, really. Some artists have been with us since the early days of the show, and those naturally have an advantage over more recent discoveries. So we can't say we love this or that artist "more" based on their position on those charts. But they did provide us with great material for three classic shows, no doubt. 
By Kika Serra
For the complete playlist click 'READ MORE' 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... 
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... 
By MdC Suingue
For the complete playlist click 'READ MORE' 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
For the complete playlist click 'READ MORE' below Another giant of Brazilian music leaves this world. This time it’s Beth Carvalho, aka the ‘Godmother of Samba’. A singer known for her silky voice and great repertoire. 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 ! ... 
By MdC Suingue
For the complete playlist click 'READ MORE' below 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... |
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