Friday, January 20, 2012
Music / Post No Bills 12 O'Clock Track: Thaís Gulin, "ôÔÔôôÔôÔ"
Posted by Peter Margasak on 01.20.12 at 12:00 PM
Keeping up with Brazilian music isn't easy. Few record stores in the U.S. bother to carry it, and even fewer distributors bring it into the country (though it's getting easier to find downloads on iTunes and eMusic). It's more than worth the extra effort to scan Brazilian music blogs like Notas Musicais—the Portuguese-language site doesn't seem to do much curating of what gets posted, but it's how I learned that young singer Thaís Gulin made her second album late last year. I enjoyed her debut, but ôÔÔôôÔôÔ (Slap) is one of my 2011 faves. It was produced by Kassin (of +2 fame), and both Chico Buarque and Tom Zé make cameos. This is squarely in the MPB camp (musica popular Brasileira), and there are plenty of quirky arrangements and production flourishes to really drive home the lovely melodies and Gulin's terrific singing. For today's 12 O'Clock Track I'm posting the trombone-stoked title song for stream or download, but the entire album is great.
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I should point out that one shop that does carry a deeper selection of contemporary Brazilian music is Dusty Groove, which is where I actually bought my copy of Gulin's latest album.
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on 01/20/2012 at 12:16 PM
