www.step1.com.br/portuguese/
Link to my school
www.nexussurf.com/
Not going to this camp but gives you a look at the City (Floripa) where I'll be for 6 weeks socializing/swimming/surfing/sunning/sandboarding... oh yeah studying!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMRQHOWnUdE&feature=related
Grade A Brasilian video production highlighting the touristic experience of Floripa (maybe let it load first so you can scan through the in between).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mQHr8bAojU
Remember this one?
http://www.allbrazilianmusic.com/en/home/home.asp
www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/brazillist.html
The Brasilian music industry is nearly as big as ours in the US. In case you want to mix in some "world" w/ your usual flow..these sites are a good reference. In 2006 I bought Tropicália: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound. Obviously it was a bit of a life changer for me ;) Os Mutantes 60's stuff is really good. Tim Maia plays American style funk/soul . His best albums are Imunização Racional vol. 1 & 2 (or something like that). It was made when he was in a cult and he would spend rehearsal breaks outside watching for spaceships. Jorge Ben is the James Brown of Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB). Will.I.am from Black Eyed Peas regularly plundered his catalog. Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil were so groundbreaking that the Military Government in the 70's had them exiled. Marisa Monte and Gal Costa have amazing voices, Tom Zé is a kooky genious, Nação Zumbi funk out to Afro-Brasilian rhythms ... and obviously I could go on forever..... oh yes Os Tribalistas were a one-off collaboration of some very influential artists (Marisa Monte among them). Their one self-titled album has a very "christmassy" vibe, so a good place to start this season. Hit up soulseek or maybe iTunes..you won't find these in stores!
SOMENTE TRêS SEMANAS MAIS!!
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