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 The Bahian Ethos & Zeitgeist |
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 Stranger in a Strange Land |
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 In the Cradle of Samba |
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 Hottest Rhythms, Coolest Tunes! SAMBA! |
 And others seldom thought of |
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 Epicure for Gods & Mortals |
 Civilized discussion with respect to Bahia & Brazil |
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 From Surfside Partying to Idyllic Splendor |
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 Heaviest Hands |
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 Mobius-Strip Transit |
 More than Newton's 1st law makes the world go round |
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 Far Horizons |
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 Other People and Perspectives, in English & Português |
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 Compromised smile? |
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 By Daniel Bluementhal |
By Alain Zamrini |
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 Encanto de Itapoan, Seaside |
Hotel Redfish, Centro Histórico |
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Cana Brava Records in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Brazilian music is deep, there's no question about that! And while musical depth is not unique to Brazil, Brazil's harnessing of depth and warmth to complex and sophisticated rhythms makes it a source of enormous richness to a people -- including many musicians -- who don't have such richness in a more material sense.
Cana Brava Records was founded as an outlet for the music of Bahia and Brazil's Nordeste (Northeast, an ethnographic entity unto its own, defined by hardship and spirited resilience), and as an outlet for hard-to-find music in Salvador (while making room for Brazil's consecrated artists, Cartola, Jobim, et al, and styles ranging from the sambas of Rio's morros - hills - to choro - "cry", a style which gave birth some of Brazil's most beautiful compositions and most extraordinary instrumentalists, per which, below, is the trailer to Finnish-born Salvador resident Mika Kaurismäki's 2005 choro documentary, Brasileirinho).
Hamlet said: "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." The dreams of the composers, singers, and instrumentalists beneath our arches pulse and soar through space and time, extending our shop beyond its walls to the plantations beyond the bay, to the backlands, to the terreiros de candomblé, to the hills ringing Guanabara, to the gafieiras (dancehalls) of 1930s Lapa, the Ipanema of the 1950s and 60s... Our shop is small, but it encompasses a universe!
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Up from Slavery
Picaresque Opulence
The World's, Biggest, Party
Writer Bennet Paris
The Sacred and the Profana
Blood, Sweat, Prayers (and Sugar)
Cloves, Cachaça, & Stupidly Cold Beer
If the world is a stage, this is the bandstand.
Takin' it to the Streets
Dance like a Baryshnikov...hit like a Kalashnikov
Ubiquitous Deities: 1,165 sacred houses in Salvador alone
Salvador S.O.S.
Manorial, Shantified, Towering, Humbly Jumbled
Runaway Slave Villages and Relaxing Millionaires
Up the Underbelly!
A tongue like molten pewter
Zoom out
Hedge Caveat Emptor
'Round Back of Olodumaré's Universe
Accoutrements
Tropical Variance
Páginas Pessoais de Músicos Brasileiros
Personal Music Pages
