Pocketmusic: 2007

Friday, December 28, 2007

VOLUME 23 - ARNALDO ANTUNES (2)

It's the end of the year so, as everybody, Pocketmusic is gonna take a break. But we leave our guests in great company, presenting some precious leftovers of artists that had a very special participation in our brief history.

In the New Year' Special Volume, we're back in the energetic and inspiring creativity of Arnaldo Antunes, that when spending an afternoon with us, in august of 2007, had so much breath and disposition to record not only 2 videos, but four, and some of them was recorded in different places, too. Here is a chance to know the other two songs that were left out of his first volume.

SIDE A - CIDADE
(city)
august 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the viaduct

"Cidade" (Arnaldo Antunes) is the side A and was shot in a landscape that suits perfectly this song. It's a viaduct that is really crowd and known in São Paulo's downtown called "Viaduto do Chá".

SIDE B - SEM VOCÊ
(without you)
august 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in the bus

The side B, maybe, best represents what Pocketmusic stands for. Playing and singing "Sem Você" (Arnaldo Antunes/Carlinhos Brown) in a bus, going up a famous street in São Paulo called Rua da Consolação, Arnaldo Antunes mixes up freedom and spontaneity and the natural and instantly combination of music and the space that surrounds it that we are always persuiting, but, not always is possible. And, in this case, the fact of the bus' noises doesn't allowed a perfect sound of this music, doesn't take away the singular and great pocketshow that was made.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
we're back soon!

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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

VOLUME 22 - PATO FU + fernanda takai & érika machado

It's the end of the year so, as everybody, Pocketmusic is gonna take a break. But we leave our guests in great company, presenting some precious leftovers of artists that had a very special participation in our brief history.

In our Christmas' Special Volume, the artists that opened our website - and also our eternal "godfathers" - returns with two bonus videos, shot in Belo Horizonte and, since then, never showed before. In both, we captured some really special moments.

SIDE A - SIMPLICIDADE
(simplicity)
june 2007 - belo horizonte (mg) - in the backyardigan

The side A belongs totally to Pato Fu, showing the song "Simplicidade", that is part of the CD "Toda cura para todo mal" and in which was performed by a robotic vocal of Fernanda Takai. In the shows it was performed by a robot called "Silício", that was previously quoted here. In a small group, Fernanda, John and Lulu played to us this cosy version of the song.

SIDE B - AS COISAS
(the things)
june 2007 - belo horizonte (mg) - in the kitchen

Here, Fernanda is sharing this sweet moment with Érika Machado, in the side B. They performed together "As Coisas" (Érika Machado/ Cecília Silveira) in a restaurant's kitchen that was cooking for a special party that day. We also had lunch there and it's no myth, the food of Minas Gerais is just perfect.

In both videos, there's high quality music with the most charismatic musicians. So, this is Christmas and there could not have been a better present that we could offer.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Monday, December 24, 2007

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

It's the end of the year and Pocketmusic is gonna take a holiday break, but we leave our guests in excellent company: an outstanding fun video made with the future pocketmusic volume and amazing band "Móveis Coloniais de Acaju". It's a great and quick performance/message made in a kitchen to wish everybody a Happy Holidays! The song is called "Boas Festas", Happy Holidays in portuguese.

PS: The volume 22 is a christmas' gift from us: Pato Fu returns to play two songs. And the volume 23 is a way to start the year with great music and luck: Arnaldo Antunes lead us to another musical tour in the São Paulo's downtown. Enjoy them!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

VOLUME 21 - CIBELLE

If anyone will ask Cibelle to describe her music, he'll find the words "tropical/punk" - in this order. But there's something more in her. On the stage or in the record, the artist combines her beautiful voice with tender acoustic instrumentations, toys' sounds, enthusiastics guitars, eletronic effects and other surprises. Cibelle was born in São Paulo and lives in London, sings in french, portuguese and english. She's inovator and classic at the same time.

She came to Brazil to perform in Tim Festival's "Novas Divas" and she stayed a little bit longer for her solo concert. And it was in her busy sound check, in the inspired Auditório do Ibirapuera, that Cibelle took away all her instruments and offered us the old and good combination of just voice and guitar. And it wasn't needed more than 15 minutes to shoot her.

SIDE A - WHITE HAIR
november 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the stairs

"White hair" (Cibelle) was the side A, which is a never heard before song, that she's been performing in her live concerts. It was recorded on the stairs, in the middle of some old posters of previous performances at that same place, where she was going to play that night.

SIDE B - INSTANTE DE DOIS
(moment of two)
november 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the ground

"Instante de dois", the side B, also written by her, is a track from her most recent album "Shine of Dried Electric Leaves" (2006). It was recorded under the brilliant sculpture of Tomie Ohtake, that, with its superlative's proportions, at the same time, brought contrast and complement to the sweetness of the song.

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VOLUME 20 - WADO e o realismo fantástico

Wado is from Santa Catarina, but is rooted in Alagoas. He is on the road since the 90's. In 2000, he left the band "Santo Samba" and left to a solo career. The adaptation was fast and, in the next year, he was recording his first album created in this loneliness. "Manifesto da Arte Periférica" (2001) had already showed the personal path in the musical experiment in which Wado will go through from that moment on, searching for the perfect beat. The tracks in this album, as well the ones from the next two albums, "Cinema auditivo" (2002) and "A farsa do samba nublado" (2004) are available for free download in the artist website.

SIDE A - TARJA PRETA/FAFA
(black label/fafa)
october 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in the apartment

Passing through São Paulo, Wado could accept our invitation, made a long time ago. With his band, he needed to be plugged to perform "Tarja Preta/Fafa" (Wado/Siri), so it made us run into one of our members' apartment to use some amateur equipament. For a song that is two in one, this side A, separates and unites Wado with his musicians, between the bathroom, the kitchen and the living room.

SIDE B - MATA GENTE (SAUDADE)
[it kills us (missing you)]
october 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the stairs

Going a little bit far away from the apartment, we took the stairs as a cenary to the next never heard before song "Mata Gente (Saudade)" (Wado/ Rodrigo Sappo/Railton Sarmento/Antônio Pereira de Moraes). The result of this is a great beautiful moment, between the cold marble and the sunset light.

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Wado's official website

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

VOLUME 19 - MAYRA ANDRADE

Mayra Andrade is a brazilian that wasn't born in Brazil. She was born in Cuba, but she exhibits with a lot of honor her title as a cape verdean singer and it was with the cape verdean creole regional language that she recorded most of her tracks in her debut cd, "Navega" (2006). She has a lot of brazilian influence, she speaks our portuguese with no accent at all and some of the musicians that work with her, on stage and in the studio, are brazilians. So, we could not lose this opportunity to have her incredible and intense musicality and her husky and sweet voice, here, in the website. And she accepted this invitation with a lot of enthusiasm and kindness.

SIDE A - Tunuka
october 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the parallelepiped

To keep incresing her conexion with Brazil, Mayra asked Mariana Aydar to share with her the vocals of the side A "Tunuka" (from the really important musician from Cape Verde, Orlando Pantera), composition that Mariana already sang in her concerts.

SIDE B - MANA
october 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in the patio

For the side B, Mayra asked the brazilian percussionist Zé Luis Nascimento to play with her "Mana" (Mayra Andrade). While she played the guitar, he played the ocean drum and the tamá.

With a multicultural sonority, but at the same time with a strong identity and beauty, Mayra is an artist to be discovered. It's a pleasure to introduce her.

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VOLUME 18 - ZÉLIA DUNCAN

It's not from today that Zélia Duncan likes to say that her dream is that one day every brazilian is gonna sing, at least, one of Itamar Assumpção' song by heart. Since her album "Intimidade" (Intimacy, 1996), she makes use of the paulista composer's repertoire in every work of hers. Itamar, himself, asked Zélia to sing with him the track "Dor Elegante" (composed with Paulo Leminski, a great brazilian poet) in his 1998's album, PretoBrás. The experience was so powerful to Zélia that, at that same week, she decided to make a tatoo in her arm.

SIDE A - NEGA MÚSICA
(black music)
october 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in the corner

The first of future colaborations of Zélia here, in Pocketmusic, is dedicated to Itamar. The first song, the side A, comes from the first LP of the composer, "Beleléu, Leléu, Eu", released in 1980 by the independent label Lira Paulistana. "Nega Música" (Itamar Assumpção) was never heard before in Zélia's voice. No longer, it is.

SIDE B - DOR ELEGANTE
(elegant pain)
october 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in the tatoo' studio

The side B is, literally, a song made by flesh and blood, since the day of shooting was made in a rush to register the new visit of the singer in a tatoo' studio called Leds Tatoo, where Zélia retouched the old tatoo "Dor Elegante".

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

VOLUME 17 - WENDY McNEILL

Wendy McNeill is a canadian singer and composer that came to São Paulo to participate in the project called "Solitude: Feminine Voices", that brought solo women artists of the independent scenery with a richness of sound. We didn't know a lot about her music. Her show was delicate but at the same time strong, full of pedals and loopings, besides her accordion that reigns with her compositions. She was a band, alone.

SIDE A - HOLY O'
october 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in the open air market

With a help from our friends of the Coquetel Molotov, we met Wendy in the day after her show, with a hot sun above our heads. Now, living in Sweden, Wendy could taste a little bit of the friendly and warmth of the brazilians that passed by an open air market while she was playing "Holy O' " (Wendy McNeill), a great and fun experience that can be seen in our side A.

SIDE B - SUCH A COMMON BIRD
october 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the balcony

On the side B, we did the opposite of the side A, with a lot more intimacy and quietness, Wendy took us to her hotel room's balcany and played the beautiful" Such Common Bird" (Wendy McNeill), with a urban "weird, but beautiful" (her words) background.

With great sympathy, Wendy took a ride with us late that night to go to Niobe and Juana Molina's show. That all happened after we bought strawberrys and she drank coconut water to refresh herself on that sunny day in São Paulo.

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Friday, November 16, 2007

VOLUME 16 - VANGUART

Vanguart is a band from Cuiabá, that, now, lives in São Paulo, they sang in english and spanish, besides portuguese and they've been having a lot of sucess all over Brazil. They are one of the new independent bands that rise in the brazilian musical scene today and, this year, they just released theirs first album "Vanguart".

Helio Flanders (voice/guitar), David Dafre (voice/guitar), Reginaldo Lincoln (voice/bass), Luiz Lazarotto (keyboards) and Douglas Godoy (drums) make a really fun and intelligent kind of music, that goes to all the different "kinds" of rock 'n roll, they say that they're influenced by names like Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Beach Boys and others.

SIDE A - HEY YO SILVER
october 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in a bagage compatment

For Pocketmusic, the extremely nice and outgoing boys presented two great surprises. The first one, registered, as our side A, was to got into a bagage compartment of Rafael's car and play "Hey Yo Silver" (Hélio Flanders) against curves, holes and the ups and downs of the streets of São Paulo.

SIDE B - ENQUANTO UNS DORMEM
(while some people sleep)
october 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the street

And on the side B, the difference lies on a musical matter. Dialoguing with artists of their time and going even further on the music that is being done in other parts of Brazil, Vanguart present us "Enquanto uns dormem" (Los Porongas) from the band Los Porongas, from Acre, a place that is a mistery for all of us.

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

VOLUME 15 - LUCINA

Like Zélia Duncan, fan and partner of Lucina, says: Lucina has the voice of a forest. But we could add in there other elements that also bring a nice and cosy quality to her voice: rain, wind, lake... There's a reason for this amount of nature in her songs, she started making songs in the hippie era, she lived in a community for years, she built and played all her instruments.

With the singer/composer Luli, she formed in the 70's the duo "Luli & Lucina" and she made this kind of music that we could call "rural rock". Together, they fought for the music done independetly and since then they recorded memorable independent records. All this lack of harmony with the rules of the records label was responsable for the greater sucess of almost 800 songs of the duo in other's artists voice, such as Ney Matogrosso and Elis Regina. (A little observation that may be good to say is that "Casa de campo", a hit sang by Elis Regina, was written by Zé Rodrix in Luli & Lucina's country house.) But in 2000, the duo separated and from there to here, Lucina recorded 3 solo albums, the most recent one is "Música em mim" (Music in me), from last year.

SIDE A - EU NÃO SOU EU
(i'm not me)
august 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the patio

For her participation in Pocketmusic, Lucina reserved two never heard before moments. For the side A, she sang "Eu não sou eu", a sweet balad sang only by Zélia Duncan in her latest album.

SIDE B - TRISTEZAS
(some sadness)
august 2007 - são paulo (sp) - around the toys

And for the side B, a song that was just made by 4 hands, with Sonia Prazeres, one week before the day of shooting: Tristezas.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

VOLUME 14 - NINA BECKER

One of the stars of the "Orquestra Imperial", Nina Becker has two passions that lead her life: music and fashion. But this two passions don't walk separatly, she mixed them up in everything she does. So, in every fashion show of hers, she produces a special soundtrack, usually, sang live on the runway; in the Orquestra Imperial, she's the header of the clothes - mainly women's. And here, this two passions gets as clear as anything else.

SIDE A - JANELA
(window)
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the flower' stand

Between the softness and fun, Nina got them all. Her side A was recorded in a really crowd street in São Paulo called Dr. Arnaldo, near a flower' stand. As flowered as her dress and even better: it was the first day of spring. Everybody was worried about the sound, 'cause it was a saturday night and the cars and bus were going really fast through the street, but Nina said that when she first recorded the demo of this song, she wanted this kind of enviroment for this song. So, there're the engines doing all the instrumentation for the sweet voice of Nina to sing "Janela" (Nina Becker/Domenico Lancelotti), the first song that she wrote.

SIDE B - VOSSA AUTORIA
(your authorship)
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in a karaoke bar

For the side B, she brought a pre-recorded base for a song called "Vossa Autoria" (Nervoso), that was played in a empty karaoke room. Wearing a silver long dress and doing the best she could do with the sound of the place (far from the ideal), Nina made a (in a good way) weird and atractive video, making a small concert for nobody.

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Monday, November 12, 2007

VOLUME 13 - ALZIRA E

Nothing is obvious in Alzira E's music. Hidden clues in the game of words and sounds always blosoms whenever you put on her records. For those who are listening to her songs carefully, the message is revelead and the missing pieces of a great puzzle gets completed. And that's the fun of the thing.
It was always like that, when the "sul-mato-grossense" (a person who comes from the south of Mato Grosso, a brazilian state) singer/composer met the genious Itamar Assumpção. Or when, in 2005, she got together in a album, 15 years of songs with her partner Alice Ruiz. And, that's how she still does things, in this new period of her career, when she develops songs with her new partner Arruda. And from this partnership came two beautiful songs that Alzira sang specially for us, in a sunny day in a park.

SIDE A - CHEGA DISSO
(enough of this)
july 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on a square

"Chega disso" , our side A, was recorded and released this year in a DVD that registers Zélia Duncan' show "Pré Pós Tudo Bossa Band" (Pre Post Everything Bossa Band) and it was never heard in Alzira's voice, until now.

SIDE B - DIZ
(tell me)
july 2007 - são paulo (sp) - under a tree

"Diz", the side B, is one of the 11 tracks from the recently released "Alzira E", the new album of the singer, that all the songs was inspired by Arruda's poems.

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VOLUME 12 - MAIA HIRASAWA

Since last year in the first "Swedish Invasion", promoted by Coquetel Molotov from Recife, we were at the first row in Jens Lekman, El Perro del Mar, Hell on Wheels and José González' shows. And now, after tons of e-mails and phone calls, we accomplished to mix up Pocket Music with a different musical project, which promotes the reunion of brazilian fans with the independent musical scene in Sweden.

SIDE A - CRACKERS
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - at the news-stand

Maia is part of the band Hello Saferide but, here, she shows her solo project. She has this rare quality in her voice, which can be sweet and tender and, at the same time, strong in a way that hipnotizes everybody around her. For this reason, "Crackers" (Maia Hirasawa), our side A, called the attention of lots of people that got lucky in a wednesday night, near a news-stand. Taxis stopped right in the middle of the street to hear her, cars went backwards to understand what was happening and even the microphone couldn't get far away from her.

SIDE B - ROSELIN
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - at night

To end up the Swedish Invasion special in Pocket music, Maia Hirasawa closes with her side B "Roselin". We didn't know exactly what to ask her, so we said to her to sing a song that was more comfortable and suitable for her. When she sat down next to the hotel's swimming pool, Maia started playing the first notes of "Roselin", and with a melancholic and sentimental mood of the song she captivated all of us in this trully magical night.

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Maia Hirasawa's official website

Maia Hirasawa's myspace

VOLUME 11 - HELLO SAFERIDE

SIDE A - I WONDER WHO IS LIKE THIS ONE
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - at the elevator

Our shooting day with Annika happened two days after her last concert in Brazil, in Sesc Vila Mariana, with the band Hello Saferide, which Annika is the heart and soul (she has also a solo project, sung in swedish, called Säkert!). In a intimate concert, she captured us with her humor and sweetness from her lyrics and with her amazing stage presence.

In a small elevator, singing the side A "I Wonder Who Is Like This One" (Annika Norlin), Annika showed her perfect timing, making a elevator trip a perfect size to a song and changing the concept of "elevator song" for two passangers that got a ride in this unique, special and safe show.

SIDE B - VI KOMMER ATT DÖ SAMTIDIGT
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in a gallery

It was our first time with international artists, so, we wanted some "authenticity" this time, therefore, we asked Annika to sing a song in swedish, from her solo project, "Säkert!". In a really sunny day, she started singing and walking through a small gallery in Augusta St. Slowly she started to invite the people who worked there to get out of their stores and enjoy this small pocket show of a song that is called "Vi kommer att dö samtidigt", that means "We are going to die at the same time". Annika says that this is one of her happy songs, which idea came from a friend's couple of dogs that one die some time after the other.

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Hello Saferide's official website

Hello Saferide's myspace

VOLUME 10 - SUBURBAN KIDS WIITH BIBLICAL NAMES

SIDE A - MIDDLECLASS LIFE
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the sidewalk

The boys from SKWBN with few and messy explanation from us, understood imediatly the spirit of the project and with a lot of breath and energy they accepted to go walking in the sideways of a middleclass neighbourhood of São Paulo, singing a new song. "Middleclass Life" (Suburban Kids With Biblical Names), our side A, had the exactly duration of one block of Lorena Street, where people were walking their dogs and cars with money had just arrived in the bank, all this, served as backup singers to this quick, dancing and fun urban serenade.

SIDE B - TREES AND SQUIRRELS
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in the middle of small trees

For the side B "Trees and Squirrels", the boys from SKWBN, without any hesitation got into a small garden and in the middle of some plants, just like the squirrels in the song, they made a fun and unexpected performance for those who passed by Consolação St. that night.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

SPECIAL: SWEDISH INVASION - SIDE B

VOLUME 10 - SUBURBAN KIDS WITH BIBLICAL NAMES
SIDE B - TREES AND SQUIRRELS
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in the middle of small trees

VOLUME 11 - HELLO SAFERIDE
SIDE B - VI KOMMER ATT DÖ SAMTIDIGT
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - in a gallery

VOLUME 12 - MAIA HIRASAWA
SIDE B - ROSELIN
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - at night

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Monday, October 1, 2007

SPECIAL: SWEDISH INVASION - SIDE A

And it was the spirit of this reunion that we tried to capture from, putting the artists in public places in São Paulo in a fun and spontaneous way. It couldn't be different, because with bands with names like Suburban Kids With Biblical Names and Hello Saferide, the criativity and originality are visible instantly. And as the most fun and gentle people they are, we, as fans, couldn't get more satisfied with the results.

p.s. The reunion of us and the Swedish Invasion generated something different, so the way that we're gonna post the videos will be also. They're gonna be released together and, in this first week, the side A of the three artists will be on the air and, next week, the side B. Afterwards, there will be a separated volume for each one of the artists.

VOLUME 10 - SUBURBAN KIDS WITH BIBLICAL NAMES
SIDE A - MIDDLECLASS LIFE
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - on the sidewalk

VOLUME 11 - HELLO SAFERIDE
SIDE A - I WONDER WHO IS LIKE THIS ONE
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - at the elevator

VOLUME 12 - MAIA HIRASAWA
SIDE A - CRACKERS
september 2007 - são paulo (sp) - at the news-stand

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Friday, December 28, 2007

VOLUME 23 - ARNALDO ANTUNES (2)

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

VOLUME 22 - PATO FU + fernanda takai & érika machado

Monday, December 24, 2007

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

VOLUME 21 - CIBELLE

VOLUME 20 - WADO e o realismo fantástico

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

VOLUME 19 - MAYRA ANDRADE

VOLUME 18 - ZÉLIA DUNCAN

Saturday, November 17, 2007

VOLUME 17 - WENDY McNEILL

Friday, November 16, 2007

VOLUME 16 - VANGUART

Thursday, November 15, 2007

VOLUME 15 - LUCINA

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

VOLUME 14 - NINA BECKER

Monday, November 12, 2007

VOLUME 13 - ALZIRA E

VOLUME 12 - MAIA HIRASAWA

VOLUME 11 - HELLO SAFERIDE

VOLUME 10 - SUBURBAN KIDS WIITH BIBLICAL NAMES

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

SPECIAL: SWEDISH INVASION - SIDE B

Monday, October 1, 2007

SPECIAL: SWEDISH INVASION - SIDE A

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