420 entries from "Brazil"

Mother Nature and BoatHouse: HANDZOFF

From SZNZ (2021). The self-professed ‘most dynamic hip-hop duo of all time’. I feel like the verses fill so much space that the breathing is dramatic. Massive sound, blast.

Fredy V & The Foundation: Your Own Way

From One Step (2021). Intro bassline that’s so dark! A perfect groove to accompany the body paint and photography.

BNegão & Os Seletores de Frequência’s: (Funk) Até O Caroço

From Enxugando Gelo (2004). Hip-hop and funk headbanger with a bad-ass guitar riff.

BaianaSystem: O Futuro não Demora (2019)

Various pop/dance rhythms from Brazil.

Shaolin Afronauts: Flight Of The Ancient (2011)

Afrojazz, wild honky saxophone solos, dorian modes, to which you can dance for 45 minutes straight.

Ilessi: Dama de Espadas (2020)

Complex, vital, emotional, and very not-weak-sauce: Dama de Espadas is a bold, rough and sassy blues in Portuguese; Oração pro Gil has onomatopoeic cantations over an African groove; the sort of hard rock vibe in Vivo ou Morto took me by surprise.

Josué Costa In Concert

Imagine walking into a park and seeing a professional Brazilian guitarist sitting alone in a gazebo practicing his own complex jazz and classical compositions, in a pandemic, in a city where people don’t normally sit alone in parks and practice guitar. I'm grateful this musician shared his music (and let me listen with social distancing).

Jacob Collier: Moon River (a cappella, 2019)

Sublime celestial splendor sung by the chorus of a thousand stars. Not sure how I missed it but I think one cannot die before hearing this. I am still working my way through his in-depth hour-and-a-half music nerdery around the creation of this masterpiece.

Home on the Internet

[Twitter enables direct exchange between thoughts, independent of the people.]

[Twitter and TikTok enable content threads.]

[When me and the person I know are conversing on twitter, the third person that doesn't know is is watching. A performance for our shared mutuals.]

[We went from an oral culture where everything disappears, to a written culture, and now as text is less necessary we are moving toward an oral culture where everything is permanent.]

[People LARPing doing their day job in the real world to earn the money that enables them to participate in their imagined world, like Burning Man.]

[People pretending that they want things in public because they think other people want them is the source of many problems.]

[Lying is more cognitively demanding, you actually burn more sugar.]

[Every child is like a traveller arriving from somewhere else.]

[How to encourage a group to feel the camaraderie of 'we did it'?]

[Peer maker group.]

[Introduce yourself, what are you working on, what programming language.]

[What did you learn, add this week? challenges?]

[Anyone do marketing?]

[Users talk with makers.]

[Most people don't try stuff? Encourage serendipity.]

[Build measure learn.]

[Integrating this into your practice.]

How to LEARN ANY LANGUAGE on Your Own (Fast!)

[Walk around with the target language playing and try to repeat back phrases that you hear.]

[Digital garden + zero data implies a dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs.]

[Getting more people involved can be a path to mentoring others.]

[What's the purpose of everything? in the code… in the app…]

LOGIC SESSION BREAKDOWN: "Moon River"

[I like to have a chord planned and then add as many notes to it as possible until it's too much, and then take some away.]

[I used to listen to Take 6 and sing the note I wish was there, the 7th note.]

[Textbook voicings die specifically because they are 'correct'.]

Open-source doesn't mean build it only in the ways defined by software tools like GitHub: we can meet up, talk about it, help each other, organize together in our own ways.

Dopplebanger: Pussylicker

Mashes up three different songs with electronic grooves and well-placed cowbell.

Lil Nas X: MONTERO (2021)

Outside my milieu, genre-wise, but it’s a bodyshaker that deserves to be blasted on good speakers. The artist explores their sexuality with visual metaphors and vibrant colours.

Amy Winehouse: Cupid

From The Ska EP (2008) might be the song that gets me into ska—I would describe it as ‘uplifting’.