beautiful, hope you got more commin like this!

The eighth record in our Brazil 45s series http://www.mrbongo.com/products/wilson-simonal-silva-lenheira-zazueira-7

A. Wilson Simonal - Silva Lenheira 
AA. Wilson Simonal - Zazueira

Wilson Simonal de Castro was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1939. He was a hugely successful artist throughout the 1960s and 70s, during which time he recorded 20 albums.

Here he covers two Jorge Ben penned songs - 'Silva Lenheira' and 'Zazueira'. They appear on from 'Allegria! Allegria! Volume 2' and 'Allegria! Allegria! Volume 3' respectively. Both previously unreleased on 7".

Wilson Simonal - Zazueira

Extended and added percussion. It's better for the beach :-) 
Now available for download https://andykidd.bandcamp.com/track/jorge-ben-katarina-andy-kidd-edit

Full 12" vinyl version is 06:07 
Buy it here   http://www.juno.co.uk/products/lucci-capri-andy-kidd-messalina-volume-11/564801-01/

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Jorge Ben - Katarina (Andy Kidd Edit)Low Res Snip

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Di Melo - Pernalonga (tupinambAss Edit)

i made this edit specifically to play at the ESO party at Bembe - it's a flip of an extremely uplifting song by legendary brazilian recording artist Caetano Veloso, from 1982


Caetano Veloso - Um Canto De Afoxé Para O Bloco Do Ilê (Self Help Edit)

Vinicius & Toquinho vs Jurassic 5 - Canto de Ossanha (DJ LK Mashup)

Taken from BANZEIRO available on LP /CD /DL via: https://donaonete.bandcamp.com/album/banzeiro & STREAMING

‘Remarkable… an engagingly commanding and feisty singer’ The Guardian

Dona Onete - ‘the grande dame of Amazonian song’ - returns with further tales from the river Amazon on her sophomore album Banzeiro.

Whether she’s championing gay rights, singing about the delights of indecent proposals or praising a former lover for his ‘crazy ways of making love’, Banzeiro is defined by Onete’s honest reflections on life, love, sex as well as her delight in the everyday pleasures of life in the Amazon, whether that’s spicy seasoning, salty kisses or fishy-smelling water.

Formerly a history teacher, folklore researcher, union representative, culture secretary and children’s author - “I never thought I would be a singer” she claims - Onete recorded her debut album Feitiço Caboclo at 73. A cult figure in Brazil and an ambassador for Amazonian culture, the music she sings is a unique mix of rhythms from native Brazilians, African slaves and the Caribbean - epitomised in the joyous carimbós that are her trademark.

Born in the Amazonian region of Pará in 1938, Onete is a mix of native Indian from her mother’s side and African from her father. She first started to sing after a chance riverside encounter: “I was washing clothes by the river and one day I saw a dolphin and sung for him. The next day I sang again, and two dolphins came, then a whole family!”.

A self-proclaimed “teenage-dreamer” who embraced music “because everything was forbidden by my parents”, by the age of 15 Onete was singing in bars, yet her musical ambitions were soon crushed: “I was married at 22 and when I tried to sing at home my husband didn’t like it so I had to stop”.

She became an ardent researcher of the rhythms, dances and traditions of the Amazon’s indigenous and black people, which inspired her to begin composing songs herself. Unable to sing at home, she began to incorporate her compositions in her work as a history teacher.

In the early eighties Onete quit teaching to campaign for workers’ rights and following retirement in 1990 she became a local Municipal Secretary of Culture. In the early 2000s Onete’s second husband encouraged her musical side and it was whilst singing at a friend’s party in 2006 that she was overheard by a local band. She joined them and soon became a local celebrity known for her risque lyrics. A debut album, Feitiço Caboclo, soon followed and her contemporary take on the music of Para was a critical success with Onete touring Brazil playing to crowds of thousands: “Traditional carimbo songs are about nature and tradition - I modernised it by singing about love and sex and taking influence from samba and pagode”.

International critics were next to fall for this sassy, saucy and sexy septuagenarian with Les Inrocks making the album one of their top 5 ‘world’ releases that year. European festival performances followed in 2015 - including a main stage spot at Womad UK - with a US tour taking in Chicago, Cleveland, and New York in September 2016. “Sometimes, when you think you’ve given all you’ve got, you realise that, in fact, you have a lot more ahead of you”, she opines.

Banzeiro is the wave that’s created as boats pass through the water and with it’s pulsating saxophone riff, insistent guitar line, thundering percussion and Onete’s charged lyrics the album title track, a banguê – raucous high-octane ‘Amazonian ska’ – is a musical tsunami. Onete is at her most potent on Na Linha do Arco Iris (The Line of the Rainbow), a rallying cry of support for her LGBT fans: “come out of the wardrobe, cross the line of the rainbow and be who you want to be”. Faceira and No Meio do Pitiú are joyous carimbós with the latter surely the only song to recount the charms of Pitiú - the fishy-smelling water that floods Belém’s legendary fish-market Ver-o-Peso as the ice defrosts.

DONA ONETE No Meio Do Pitiú

No sun will shine in my day today; (no sun will shine)
The high yellow moon won't come out to play:
(that high yellow moon won't come out to play)
I said (darkness) darkness has covered my light,
(and the stage) And the stage my day into night, yeah.
Where is the love to be found?
Won't someone tell me?
'Cause my (sweet life) life must be somewhere to be found -
(must be somewhere for me)
Instead of concrete jungle
Where the living is harder

Concrete jungle
Man you got to do your best. Wo-ooh, yeah.
No chains around my feet,
But I'm not free, oh-ooh!
I know I am bound here in captivity;
G'yeah, now - (never, never) I've never known happiness;
(never, never) I've never known what sweet caress is -
Still, I'll be always laughing like a clown;
Won't someone help me? 'Cause I (sweet life) -
I've got to pick myself from off the ground
(must be somewhere for me), he-yeah! -
In this a concrete jungle:
I said, what do you cry for me now, o-oh!
Concrete jungle, ah, won't you let me be, now.
Hey! Oh, now!

I said that life (sweet life) - it must be somewhere to be found
(must be somewhere for me)
Oh, instead: concrete jungle - collusion -
confusion (confusion). Eh!

Concrete jungle: baby, you've got it in.
Concrete jungle, now. Eh!
Concrete jungle.

Céu - Concrete Jungle



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