The remarkable thing one finds on YouTube, especially when you’re not looking for them!
A few days ago I stumbled across a TV show clip of Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls. Today, to my delight, while looking for a track from one of my favourite Brazilian albums, Aquarela de Brazil, I found some clips of Elis Regina and Toots Thielemans performing live together. And then of course there’s the Blue Peter elephant having a poo.
What unexpected treasures have you found lately?
Check out these guys, KFD. A Brazilian quartet based in LA. I really like the videos as well as the songs.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwPhw0cz3eI76TVF8xeDahQ
Thanks Gary! Sounds just right for me!
Here’s some vintage Pino.
Thanks Gary! Sounds just right for me!
Here’s some vintage Pino.
One very useful thing about the Tube is the enormous number of film trailers, old and new.
If you want a quick taste of a movie you’ve read about, however obscure, you can usually find something.
I had great fun a while back exploring 1950s Mexican women wrestling flicks.
Continuing on a Brazilian tip, I found (with the help of the wonderful Frankfurt company Analog Africa) a scorching music style called Siria, a cross pollination between the music of the inhabitants of the quillombos, a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by escaped African slaves, and the indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest. Reminds you of Cumbia? me too, as does the music.
KFD and Ivylander I thoroughly recommend you check this album out, it is by Mestre Cupijo e Seu Ritmo and it is a corker.