Presenter Monica Vasconcelos, herself a bossa singer, travels to Rio to meet musicians that were part of the original bossa scene - Joyce and Marcus Valle, Eumir Deodato and music writer Ruy Castro. Bossa nova - its serenity and preoccupation with sun, the sea and love - suddenly seemed out of touch with these darker times. At first censorship was light but by 1968 the junta had drifted into open repression and many musicians were arrested or exiled. But just as bossa became global and The Girl from Ipanema reached the top of the American charts, the scene was shaken to its core in Brazil, with the deposal of the left-wing civilian government by a military coup, backed by the United States. It was born in Rio in the late 1950s as a new music that marked the dawn of a new Brazil - an urban, modernising society, leaving behind its colonial past, open to the future and looking out at the world.įusing gorgeous melodies with a harmonic language inspired by the French impressionist composers (bossa writers like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Marcus Valle studied Debussy and Ravel closely) and a cosmopolitan sensibility, bossa nova became the music of choice for a smart, young, urban Brazilian middle class, who were flooding into the cities as the Brazilian economy boomed.īy the mid 1960s it became hugely influential in America and around the world. = Log checksum 6ADBE9618ED1CFF67EB30EFE0E2B03BF222F3649FBE34D5CCDE3F82597723631 =įILE "03 - The Girl from Ipanema.Forget its low-key, supper club reputation, bossa nova was tied to a political revolution and driven by a sharp and very modern aesthetic. (1/7) Differs in 1306 samples (1/7) No match found, Submit result: _AnbfUtMcMA_u1wUZYlvRAVpaMY- has been confirmed You may have a different pressing from the one(s) in the database Used output format : User Defined EncoderĬommand line compressor : D:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exeĪdditional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%-tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest% Teaching jazz a bit more about it's already graceful mien, bossa nova found its most regal stateside purveyor in Stan Getz. Beyond images from many a bossa soundtracked ‘60s movie, though, the music itself was something to behold.
Gap handling : Appended to previous track Ah, boss nova American style: a sea of white dinner jackets shimmying to Getz, poolside. Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Quality: FLAC 24 bit / 44. Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GH24NS50 Adapter: 2 ID: 1įill up missing offset samples with silence : Yesĭelete leading and trailing silent blocks : No João Gilberto / Best of João Gilberto Portrait in Bossa Nova August 2011ĮAC extraction logfile from 21.