GOURANGA MIXTAPE: Danny Moodymanc's 'Brazillian Wax Off! by Gouranga

Gouranga Mixtape: Danny Moodymanc's 'Brazilian Wax Off!'
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I first knowingly discovered Brazilian music when I heard Flora Purim’s “500 Miles High” when I was about 14 and I was completely transfixed. (Fitting that I should start this mixtape with that track then: It still feels like a major achievement in my life that I was later to work with her!). As a drummer and percussionist, a record collector and a music producer the influence of Brazil and its music is omnipresent, and something from which I have never stopped drawing on for inspiration; from the complexity and beauty of its rhythms and folk music to the bossa nova movement which exploded worldwide and influenced so heavily the jazz scene, the amazing production values of the records that were being produced there in the 70s and the rugged disco, funk and more that has followed.
Here’s a selection of tracks I picked as I sifted through my record collection, (I wanted to keep this 'all vinyl' and I make no apologies for the crackles!) some ‘classics’, some more obscure, all inspirational. I also wanted to give a breadth of styles but there is definitely a link between the selections. I hope that you enjoy listening to them as much as I did picking them.

1. Return to Forever_500 Miles High
2. Pepete_Cachimbo
3. Edu Lobo_Ponteio
4. Jorge Ben_Oba, la Vem Ela
5. Beth Carvalho_Vou festejar
6. Ralph Benatar_La Bamba
7. Ellis Regina_Aguas de Marco
8. Martinho da Vila_Festa de Umbanda
9. Uniao Black_Na Palma do Mal
10. Quarteto Novo_Misturada
11. Moacir Santos_Kathy
12. Gilberto Gil_Roda
13. Wando_Nega de Obalue
14. Dom um Ramao_Jangal
15. Os Batuqueiros_Partido Alto
16. Tamba Trio_Boranda
17. Astrid Gilberto & Stanley Turrentine_Brazilian Tapestry
18. A Jocafi_Tereza Gureira
19. Orlandivo_Tudo Joia
20.Sivuca_Ain't no Sunshine
21. Joao Bosco_O Bebado e a Equilibrista

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