This event is FREE but reservation is advised. For RSVP call:
310-434-3200

Saturday, January 24, 2009, 7:30 p.m.Multi Media 
Musical Performance: Brazil’s Tropicalia – Daring Days – Broad Stages located at 1310 11th Street Santa Monica, CA 90401.  – A Free concert -
The Brazilian musicians Caetono Veloso and Gilberto Gil are world famous, but the Tropicalia movement they helped found is less clearly understood. The term "Tropicalia" was actually coined by a visual artist, Hélio Oiticica (whose work is featured in Beyond Geometry), and the movement embraced poetry, the visual arts, and music. The music, with both traditional and electronic instrumentation, and a mixture of Bahian and rock-and-roll rhythms, was not only a radical departure from traditional Brazilian music, but the movement as a whole was launched in opposition to Brazil's military dictatorship of the era. 

Although Tropicalia lasted only a short time before its leaders were forced into exile, its repercussions are still felt in Brazilian and world music today. At Broas Stages, the experience of Tropicalismo will be created through vintage recordings of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Os Mutantes, combined with visuals and simultaneous live performance featuring outstanding local musicians in a demonstration that Tropicalia is not just a historical art form, but a living one as well.
Concept and direction by Sergio Mielniczenko, host of "Global Village," KPFK-LA, and "Brazilian Hour," KXLU-LA.
This program is made possible by the Brazilian Consulate General, Los Angeles – Cultural Sector.

MUSIC -

Some of the titles of 08 that I like…


Sergio Mendes (Brazil), 

Encanto

Concord / Hear Music

Café Tacuba, (Mexico)
Si No
Universal

Esperanza Sapalding (USA)
Esperanza
Heads Up

Adele (England)
19
Columbia

Azymuth (Brazil)
Butterfly
Farout Recordings

Zuco 103 (Euro-Brazilian)
After de Carnaval
Six Degrees

Milton Nascimento & Jobim Trio (Brazil)
Novas Bossas
Blue Note

Sabrina Malheiros (Brazil)
New Morning –
Farout Recordings

Miles From India (USA/India)
Miles from India
Times Square

Garaj Mahal (USA)
Woot
OwlStudios

Gilberto Gil (Brazil)
Banda Larga Cordel
Wraner Music Latina

Toninho Horta (Brazil)
To Jobim with Love
Resonance Records

Richard Bona (Cameroon)
Bona Makes you Sweat
Deca

Thievery Corporation (USA)
Radio Rataliation
ESL Music

Jazzanova (Germany)
Of All the Things
Verve

Femi Kuti (Nigeria)
Day By Day
Mercer Street Records

Julieta Venegas (USA/Mexico)
MTV Unplugged: Julieta Venegas
Sony BMG

Ani DiFranco (USA)
32 Flavors
Righteous Baby Records

Keaton Simons (USA
Can You Hear Me
CBS

Sia (Australia)
Some People Have Real Problems
Money Puzzle Records

Seu Jorge (Brazil)
America Brasil
WEA – Brazil –

Juliette Commagere
Queens Die Proudly
Comfort Music (USA)

Eliane Elias| (Brazil)

Bossa Nova Stories

Blue Note