Tagged: Bossa Nova

Lungu Lungu: Lusophone Grace

STORY BY: Benjamin Lebrave

Most people don’t know a whole lot about Lusophone music, meaning music from Portuguese-speaking countries. If anything, Brazil usually comes to mind first—in my experience, whenever I play music from places like Angola, the response … read more »

POSTED April 18, 2012 3:47PM IN Lungu Lungu, MP3 / STREAMS Comments (2) TAGS: aline frazao, Angola, angolan guitar, angolan hip hop, Bossa Nova, lusophone, mc k, paulo flores, portuguese

The Brazilian Beat, Vol. I

STORY BY: P. Elizabeth Cawein

This is the first installment of contributor John Bohannon’s monthly column, The Brazilian Beat.

Over the course of this column, I hope to introduce you to a world of music, new and old, that is highly underappreciated in the United States and beyond. read more »