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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

Sample

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 Dança 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

Sample

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

Sample

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

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