Brad Powell - Calabash Music Founder

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Brad Powell - Calabash Music Founder Ok, so I admit that I'm a Brazil Nut. My theory is that Brazilians and North Americans are like twins who were seperated at birth and when we find each other it's like a long lost reunion that feels exactly right. My experience tells me that there...
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Brazilian Carnaval

This year I had the amazing good fortune to spend Carnaval week in the northern city of Recife, and witnessed a far more community-based Carnaval than the highly commercial versions in Rio and Sao Paulo. To help you imagine what music and dance throughout the city is like I put together these tracks. Use them to warm up your next house party.

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Artist	Title	Length
Cabruera	Zabe Sabe	2:23
O Samba & Os Sambistas	Martinho Da Vila - Pagode da Saideira	2:59
Cris Aflalo	Ainda Me Lembro (Xerem e Pedro Sertanejo)	2:58
Revista do Samba	Gosto Que Me Enrosco	3:39
DJ Dolores	A Dan�a da Moda	3:40
Mona Gadelha	Saint-Denis-Ceara	3:53
Trio Mocoto	Beleza ! Beleza ! Beleza !	4:46

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Artist	Title	Length
Origins of Guitar Music	Banakatekwe	3:27
Alan Lomax	Going Down to the River	4:15
Vintage Palmwine	Dagomba	4:12
Riba Dempel	Riba Dempel	3:24
O Samba & Os Sambistas	Martinho Da Vila - Pagode da Saideira	2:59
Ethiopiques	Ere Mela Mela	4:39
George Sibanda	Dali Ngiyakuthanda Bati Ha-Ha-Ha	2:47

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Motorcycle Diaries

After recently renting the film, Motorcycle Diaries, making this playlist based on music they would have heard on their travels through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela was impossible to resist. The film follows two friends, Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Alberto Granado who hop on the back of a beat-up motorcycle for a breathtaking trip across Latin America -- retracing the origins of Che's revolutionary spirit. "Let the world change you... and you can change the world..." -- Che Guevera This quote was the film's main theme and provides a good perspective on any of us would-be world changers -- that we need to experience the world and be changed by our experience before we can create positive change...

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Artist	Title	Length
Laura Lahera & Fulvio Paredes	Gracias a la Vida	3:54
Chango Spasiuk	El Prostibulo	4:20
Angel Parra	La Jardinera	3:17
Peregoyo Y Su Combo Vacana	Las Mujeres De Mi Tierra	4:40
Banda Municipal de Santiago de Cuba	Mambo n 5	3:07
Soledad Bravo	Hasta Siempre	4:30