![]() ![]() ![]() “You can go to Italy and find a hot bossa nova scene, and they have their own sound,” explains Putumayo’s longtime A&R explorer, Jacob Edgar. The artists represented have Brazilian music in their blood, but come from postal codes as distanced as Rome and New York. Shaken out from tens of thousands of songs, the selections are intended to provide a sketch of Brazil’s current independent scene as it develops around the world. The compilers of Brazilian Beat recognize the diversity and breadth of material that the album title implies and the notes go on to confine the territory covered in the tracks to samba soul, bossa grooves and tropicalia rhythms. As the introductory liner notes attest, Brazil is “a perfect musical storm, one that has been raining gifts of song and dance for hundreds of years.” The essential elements of African (brought to the country by the slave trade) Portuguese (who colonized its vastness) and the indigenous influences already in play when they got there, have created a magical foundation for musical creativity and evolution. As with Latin Beat and African Beat before it, Brazilian Beat plays down the colourful pastiche which formerly adorned their packages for a crisp, easy to identify image that suits a thumbnail and a quick glance. ![]() Brazilian Beat is the third in a new series of Putumayo compilations designed for the download. ![]()
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