You will surely recognize the Summer Samba, if not all three sultry smooth jazz/pop tracks:īRAZIL – Upstream into the Pantanal Waterworld This was the post where I included three tracks from one of Brazil’s most famous female vocalists, Bebel Gilberto. Michael Kamen’s literally dreamy orchestrations support Kate Bush’s divinely ethereal vocals:īrazil (Sam Lowry’s First Dream) – Michael Kamen / Kate Bush Plus another version of “Brazil” from the movie soundtrack of “Brazil”. Here is the first of two pieces featuring the expansive landscape and diverse wildlife of the Pantanal, the Brazilian “Everglades” by the Bolivian border. Muldaur nicely includes the accompaniment figure most often associated with the song in the guitar part in the beginning, and whistles sweetly, before making some, ahem, adjustments to the melody here and there during his endearingly “drunken” vocals.īRAZIL – Wildlife Encounters Driving into the Pantanal Our excursion into the wondrous caves of Petar, in the southern corner of the state of São Paulo, is accompanied by Geoff Muldaur’s quirky take on “Brazil”, also featured on the soundtrack of the movie “Brazil”. The Ritchie Family’s ridiculous Disco riff on Brazil (“You got me! You got me! YOU GOT ME!”) accompanies us along the way: ![]() The second Rio-centric piece wanders through the city streets, rich in religious, spiritual and mysterious significance, ending up with the most unusual way to experience Rio’s famous Christ the Redeemer statue you are likely to find on the internet. Here we go to Rio! The Ipanema and Copacabana beaches! The Sugarloaf! And to get into the fun spirit of it all, we’ll lay Old Blue Eye’s take on “Brazil” on the turntable: I will however declare that this piece of absolute loveliness towers above just about all of the other Brazil series recordings in the whole feijoada.īachianas Brasilieras No 5 (Aria) – Heitor Villa-Lobos (Vocal: Heidi Grant Murphy) BRAZIL – RIO DE JANEIRO – Ipanema, Copacabana and the Sugarloaf That I am so much more familiar with Brazil’s popular music than Villa-Lobos specifically or the country’s classical music in general is probably to my discredit. Here is also where the (my mother will lament “only”) example of Brazil’s leading classical composer Heitor Villa-Lobos is included. Michael Kamen’s arrangement of “Brazil”, for the soundtrack of Terry Gilliam’s classic movie “Brazil”, which has nothing to do with the country but is a dystopian satire literally named after the song, envelopes the tune in a sumptuous carnival atmosphere:īRAZIL (Bachianos Brazil Samba) – Michael Kamen We also take our boat through the enchanting floating forests of the Amazon. ![]() But it’s not we who get bitten, it’s the piranhas who become our dinner. This post dives deeply into Piranha infested waters. And when the children sing “la la la” in the end it manages to be totally endearing rather than cheesy.īrazil – Floating Forests, Piranhas and the Sunsets of the Amazon Pink Martini gets the honors of being the first English language version of Brazil I share, not only because of her fine vocals, but also because she delicately captures both a slow ballad and dance-able uptempo approach to the song. The article about the fascinating divide of black and brown waters of the Amazon by Manaus was updated with new, more detailed images acquired a few weeks after the original posting when Ed and I returned to Manaus and got an even closer view of the divide than we had our first time in 2012. ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s because I grew up with the famous English version, but I actually prefer the consistent holding of long notes on one syllable on the opening and ending notes of each line, rather than how in the original these notes are often doubled by two syllables.īrazil – from the motion picture Saludos Amigos īrazil – The Black & Brown Waters of the Amazon Here we hear the song as originally sung in Portuguese and known in Brazil as “Aquarela do Brasil”. The Brazil series officially started with a reposting of a visit to the amazing waterfalls of Foz do Iguaçu, with the added bonus of including the first of the “Brazil” recordings.īrazil, where hearts were entertaining JuneĮxcept that the famous lyrics we associate with the song will not be heard yet in this first recording that originally spread the famous melody around the world thanks to the Disney movie “Saludos Amigos”. Our final meal of feijoada on our final day in Brazil, 2012 Brazil – The Flabbergasting Falls of Foz do Iguaçu
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