We don’t get much Brazilian hip hop on the Afterword. Nor do we get many Brazilian animated movies. So here’s two birds with one stone.
Emicida (who I saw do a sensational show at Roskilde last year) performing the title track from a film, The Boy and the World, which is showing in Stockholm this weekend as part of a small Latin American film festival. We’ve even got a few films showing at our local fleapit.
The film looks very promising. Much as I like Dreamworks & Co, it’s always enjoyable to try something a little different. My sprogs are going to be so delighted about beng dragged out of bed on Sunday moring to see a foreign language cartoon. My son will be on the phone to the social services if I’m not careful.
That Emicida show was sensational. He speaks no Danish and only about three words of English. But he blew the roof off the tent. Is Hip hop a universal language?
Am I now going to try and tempt you with some more Brazilian hip hop? Need you ask?
Forget the language barrier and surrender to the beats.
Straight outta Copacabana?
Here’s a rather useful overview of the Brazilian hip hop scene. Interesting to read how Sao Paolo and Rio have developed very different sounds.
http://www.mtviggy.com/lists/hip-hop-brazil-13-brazilian-rap-artists-who-made-history/
That is one rather spectacular job of animation. I will be on the lookout for this movie. (Good luck, says that little voice in my head.) Meanwhile, hip hop remains, on the whole, a tough sell for me. And it’s not just a white-guy-of-a-certain-age reaction, I don’t think. I lived in New York in the Eighties, when the genre was first coming of age, and there was some thrilling, really groundbreaking records were being made. A few exceptions exist today, but to me comparing classic hip hop to today’s output is a little like comparing George Jones to, say, Luke Bryan.
Damn edit function – why can’t it save me from my own lapses in sentence construction?
This may work, Ivy.
http://klojen.com/watch.php?movie=tt3183630
I guess that it is available somewhere on DVD too.
I am not the biggest hip hopper in the world either. But the way that these guys use Brazilian music for their beats makes them interesting to me.
And Emicida live. Wow!
Mr Bongo was one of my favourite record shops back in the day. Their label’s Brazilian Beats compilations have a good selection of Brazilian music genres. This track opens Volume 7, the most recent in the series.
The video had the added bonus of a link to the Mr Bongo Record Club radio show!
Brazil has not produced many animated films at all. This article gives some useful background.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/the-growing-pains-of-brazilian-animation
If anyone is interested in Brazilian hip hop, I just stumbled across this rather useful site.
http://soundsandcolours.com/focus/brazilian-hip-hop/