I did a presentation about vanguarda paulista in Portuguese yesterday, a movement I knew practically nothing about, so I looked it up and found some very interesting things. First, that singer named Elza Soares who had a pretty terrible life (very poor, married at 12, child died, it's absurdly awful), went on to sing, meet Louis Amrstrong, make big band / MPB music in the 60s, and then kinda disappear in the 80s. But she made a few albums recently among which a relatively experimental one (at least much more modern than her original output), A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo, which was linked with said vanguarda paulista and much praised by the press. The title track was indeed spectacular so I thought I'd first listen to one of her old albums to get a better idea. Fantastic music, her voice is to die for, with typical big band arrangements, and Brazilian percussion. Will get back to her more recent work later.
which is technically not vanguarda paulsita either because that movement died like 30 years ago, but it's supposed to be very influenced by it, which, from what I've listened from the original movement, is very true. It's very good, though it's a bit unlike anything I've heard so it might take me a few more listens to really get into it. The saxophone player sounds like he's pretty angry, that's great. Actually a comparison with The Contorsions might not be too farfetch'd, at least during the angriest moments, though Juçara Marçal's voice is much, much sweeter than James Chance's.
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