Águas de março (Waters of March) Analysis

[@carlosmauricioardissone4736]

You need to watch the documentary "Elis e Tom" about the behind-the-scenes recording of the album of the same name, which is a masterpiece of Brazilian music. Scenes from the time showing the creative process of these two geniuses, including the recording of "Águas de Março". It is showing in Brazilian cinemas and is Brazil's pre-candidate in the "documentary" category for the Oscar.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

I've heard such great things. I hope there's an English version that comes out in the United States soon.

[@terezasayeg]

That's exactly what I was going to write. It is now on in São Paulo.

[@azorbarros3308]

Always “descending” like the rain. Tom was a freaking genius.

[@GABIdotGABI]

The rule is clear: if a gringo talks about Brazil we give him engagement. If he says bad things, we give him a Vampetaço. If he says good things, we give him glory.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

😀

[@yurivs]

This is dangerous. Vampetaço can make people sick.

[@cesar1087]

que bosta

[@alexmessiasjardim11-11]

"The rule is clear" hahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!

[@LigiaLobosco]

Vampetaço! kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@davidlawrence5928]

Aguas de marco is also my favorite song of all time. In the mid 1970's I was working in my house., listening to the radio (WGBH Boston) when the version with Tom and Elis came on and stopped me in my tracks. I literally ran to my phone and ordered the album. I love Bossa Nova and Jobim, Gilberto, Elis, etc. What a fantastic period for music.

[@iwokeupthismorning2]

1 4 4 - add Jobim’s magic to that. Clever melodic bass line. That version with Elis Regina, the way the band plays, the sound of it the complicity between them is just phenomenal.

[@caio_tozzini]

Wonderful video! "Águas de Março" is a jewel of our music ❤ A note: around minute 08:20, you talk about the first notes we hear on the piano, in fact they do not represent small sprinkles of rain, they REPRESENT A SINGING OF A BRAZILIAN BIRD called MATITA-PERÊ, or also, Matitapereira 🐦 Jobim loved mentioning Brazilian nature in his work, just as Heitor Villa-Lobos did. The same singing by Matita-pereira can be heard in the first bars of the great Choros n.6 by Villa-Lobos (a great inspiration from Jobim).

[@caio_tozzini]

The singing of Matita-Pereira 👇👇kzbin.infoJ49VCFLxFgg?si=BgJWNccDaGIshRPH

[@caio_tozzini]

The Matita-perê's singing 👇👇🐦 kzbin.infoJ49VCFLxFgg?si=BgJWNccDaGIshRPH

[@LigiaLobosco]

@@caio_tozzini thanks!!

[@viakerman]

still learning things I never imagined about my own country's music because of you! thanks for that

[@DavidAsherBrown]

❤️

[@yoshihmoto]

Very cool! 😊 The dominant seventh reminded me of traditional northeastern songs like Asa Branca ❤

[@mmonkssilva]

David, your channel is one of the best music channels all over KZbin! I'm your fan.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you so much for your kind words!

[@carennrodrigues7631]

My Born in Rio Heart feels so good in seeing people enjoying my hometown cultura abroad ❤

[@lpo2019]

Even for us portuguese we love and cherish the richness and beauty of brasilien music🌸 Music connects and bring all the good in us humble humans. 🙏

[@panentheistic]

Olá, como vai? Você já ouviu “Sabiá”, de Tom Jobim e Chico Buarque, interpretada por Carminho? Hello how are you? Have you ever heard “Song of Sabiá”, by Tom Jobim and Chico Buarque, performed by Carminho?

[@LigiaLobosco]

@@panentheistic kzbin.info/www/bejne/haaoqYp6oZmji9E 😍

[@warrennelson5190]

Loving Bosa led me to learning the language which tastes delicious in the mouth. I was on a six week road trip with 99% Brazilian music on my Playlist. The music keeps me awake while driving because I'm attentive and noting new words to my vocabulary 😊

[@peterplaydon]

Re: uptake of Brazilian music by US jazz musicians (apart from bossa nova)...check out Wayne Shorter Native Dancer, or Pat Metheny, or more recently Esperanza Spalding...they all love Milton Nasciemento !

[@gmoke]

Esperanza Spalding played with Milton on his last, his farewell tour through Boston. She looked she was having a blast. "I'm playing with Milton!!!"

[@davestahl6676]

This is great! This song gets me in the heart ever since i first heard it by Getz and Regina in the mid 70s. You have nailed it. I, too, am a Brazilian Gringo!

[@csieweng]

Love this song a lot too. Seemingly so simple but genius.

[@laneweaver3775]

Transcendent word painting. Brilliant to start with that dominant 7th inversion. Who would think to do that other than someone like Jobim. A "go to" for me as well.

[@am74343]

I love the Milton Banana Trio! One of my favorite tunes from them is "Nôa Nôa", written by Sergio Mendes. I've been listening to that tune constantly for 20+ years, and each time I hear it, I discover new little pleasures hidden in the recording! An amazing 2-minute-long auditory masterpiece!

[@millennial8441]

Tom Jobim is a legend here in Brazil. We are very proud of him. Águas de Março is my favorite song by far. I said BY FAR. I am obsessed with it.

[@bdcava]

He’s the Gershwin of South America!

[@cff110280]

Ahhhh… que emocionante ouvir você elogiar nossa língua e nossa música. Nossa cultura é riquíssima. Gratidão ❤

[@robertososa7431]

I have loved this song for years and your analysis has catalyzed a tsunami of feelings and thoughts. Muito Obrigado🙏. Absolutely beautiful!

[@robertososa7431]

Just when I am despondent about the current state of affairs in the world , out of nowhere, comes another human and strikes a chord that restores some faith. Thank you!🙏

[@DavidAsherBrown]

@@robertososa7431 ❤

[@rcpinaud]

David, I love your content! I am a lover of music, I am Brazilian and live in Texas. You might be interested to know that Jobim’s grandson, Daniel Jobim, is currently on tour in the US with the also internationally famous Seu Jorge! I couldn’t go to their concert in Houston last week, but hear it was great and there was a lot of Tom Jobim songs!

[@rcpinaud]

There were*

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you! I've heard great things as well.

[@dreaminks]

one of my favorites songs too. thanks for the breakdown

[@billtubehart]

Nice job! Jobim and Ellis the ultimate version. I'm a big fan of Brazilian music too from Hermeto to Joyce and everything in between. There's an old cliche about Brazilian music: You could sing a phone book in Portuguese and sound good.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

😀

[@user-ig7nq7pc7k]

I read years ago that Ray Gilbert, the English lyricist Jobim worked with for many years, did the FIRST translation of this into English - and Jobim hated it, lol. So he went back and wrote another one himself (the one you are referencing). Pretty funny, eh? Also, although Elis and Tom seem to be getting along great, some accounts say Elis thought of Tom as an out-of-touch grandfather who needed to be more modern. Certainly the gorgeous, modern music Elis was working on with Nascimento when she died shows she was indeed exploring music that was a modern extension of the traditional. One more thing: One thing to watch with Jobim is the MELODY note compared to the bass. Jobim often juggles non-chord tomes (chord extensions or alterations) in the melody with chord tones to create tension, then "relaxation.". In this case, the first note of the melody is B over the G7/F (if the song is in C) which is a TRITONE, one of the most unstable notes in Western Music. So the melody starts with tension - which is coupled with the lyrics which provide suspense. Very thoughtful, meditative writing. We can learn a lot from Jobim.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thanks for this insight!

[@user-ig7nq7pc7k]

Of course. I wish I had time to find the source on the Jobim / Regina dynamic, but I'm sure you can find it. Thanks for your good work. @@DavidAsherBrown

[@vanbrazil2009]

Amazing music, amazing lyrics. The promise of spring for a Brazilian living in NJ is amazing ❤😅

[@emo-sup-sock]

Brazil is so big, you can't really describe the climate for the whole country at once, there's too much variation. March used to be the rainiest month in Rio, where Bossa Nova was born and Jobim lived. Climate change kinda killed that, now it rains a lot in december and april, but march is pretty dry.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thanks for the insight!

[@emo-sup-sock]

@@DavidAsherBrown Didn't mean to be pedantic hehe glad you appreciate it great video, I know it's kinda cheezy being obsessed over gringos in contact with Brazilian music, but it is heartwarming!

[@DavidAsherBrown]

@@emo-sup-sock ❤😀

[@TheCamilocedeno]

David! Was just working on learning to play this and here we are. Gotta love the algorithm.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Ha! Amazing, Camilo. :)

[@vrheisler]

My favorite song as well. Poetry set to music.

[@pablocosta8738]

Are you fond of lists? In 2000 a poll was conducted on the 31 greatest Brazilian songs of the XX Century. "The" greatest song and another 30 (hence the weird number). This was the controversial final result: Campeã: Aquarela do Brasil 1: “Carinhoso” (Pixinguinha e João de Barro) 2: “Garota de Ipanema” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Vinícius de Moraes) 3: “Asa branca” (Luiz Gonzaga e Humberto Teixeira) 4: “Águas de março” (Antônio Carlos Jobim) 5: “Chega de saudade” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Vinícius de Moraes) 6: “As rosas não falam” (Cartola) 7: “Travessia” (Milton Nascimento e Fernando Brant) 8: “Desafinado” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Newton Mendonça) 9: “Eu sei que vou te amar” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Vinícius de Moraes) 10: “Chão de estrelas” (Orestes Barbosa e Sílvio Caldas) 11: “Se todos fossem iguais a você” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Vinícius de Moraes) 12: “Luar do sertão” (Catulo da Paixão Cearense) 13: “Samba do avião” (Antônio Carlos Jobim) 14: “Brasileirinho” (Waldir Azevedo) 15: “Retrato em branco e preto” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Chico Buarque) 16: “O que será” (Chico Buarque de Holanda) 17: “Saudade da Bahia” (Dorival Caymmi) 18: “Manhã de carnaval (Luiz Bonfá e Antônio Maria) 19: “No rancho fundo” (Ary Barroso e Lamartine Babo) 20: “O bêbado e o equilibrista” (João Bôsco e Aldir Blanc) 21: “Tico-tico no fubá” (Zequinha de Abreu) 22: “Feitiço da Vila” (Noel Rosa e Vadico) 23: “Feitiço de oração” (Noel Rosa e Vadico) 24: “Marina” (Dorival Caymmi) 25: “A noite do meu bem” (Dolores Duran) 26: “Foi um rio que passou em minha vida” (Paulinho da Viola) 27: “Aquele abraço” (Gilberto Gil) 28: “Sampa” (Caetano Veloso) 29: “Detalhes” (Roberto Carlos e Erasmo Carlos) 30: “Meu bem querer” (Djavan) Back in the 1970s, Tom Jobim was asked to tell 10 songs worth a maximum grade. His personal list was: 1) CARINHOSO, de Pixinguinha e João de Barro 2) NA BAIXA DO SAPATEIRO, de Ary Barroso; 3) SAIA DO MEU CAMINHO, de Custódio Mesquita e Evaldo Rui; 4) MULHER, de Custódio Mesquita e Saidi Cabral; 5) SONHEI QUE ESTAVAS TÃO LINDA, de Francisco Matoso e Lamartine Babo; 6) FEITIO DE ORAÇÃO, de Vadico e Noel Rosa; 7) ATÉ PENSEI, de Chico Buarque; 8) PRA DIZER ADEUS, de Edu Lobo e Torquato Neto; 9) CORAÇÃO VAGABUNDO, de Caetano Veloso; 10) ACALANTO, de Dorival Caymmi These may be two intersting lists for anyone approaching Brazilian music

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Carinhoso is a great song.

[@Thiagolina]

As usual, and as a person whose first major was in Portuguese as Second language: your pronunciation is really good!

[@wheatworkspro]

I love this video, one of my favorite songs in the world

[@JamesKeno]

Antonio Carlos Jobim is one of my all time favorites. Thanks to my mom and the chairman Frankie Sinatra 😊

[@resanches4684]

Wow! Thank you for sharing!

[@ailtonxsouza]

David, Muito Obrigado!

[@MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa]

Doing that at 7:23 sends anyone shivers down their spine. Little miracles of nature.

[@AltaLand2023]

I'm brazilian and I love this song. I loved your analysis, great job!

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you!

[@Pegnitztal]

"Les Eaux de Mars" the french version Georges Moustaki, mars is also the planet and makes the song more mystical :-)

[@lorennas.5026]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[@marciormariano]

Another brasilian masterpiece from brasilian music in harmony, melody and LIRYCS is Construção by Chico Buarque. you can easily find it on YT with lyrics.

[@LigiaLobosco]

Hi, David, just landed in your channel, from Brazil! Your portuguese sounds very good!!

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you!

[@paraquemolestarseenp]

beautiful

[@Coco_Life_]

Amazing ❤ As a life long Elis Regina fan, I also think this is the best version of the song

[@brainrussell6811]

The Sergio Mendez version is my morning wakeup song... a modal/chromatic masterpiece, and absolutely one of my favorite songs that combines such beauty and complexity that anyone can relate to. Also, most Westerners - at least in the U.S. - are well versed in Brazilian rhythms courtesy of Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas! Everything he wrote had the coolest latin/jazz influences. Thanks for the analysis!

[@DavidAsherBrown]

You know...this is a question I've always wanted to ask. I have a lot of Brazilian followers on Instagram and get a lot of recommendations for Brazilian artists. But I almost never see anyone ask for Sergio Mendez and I've wondered why.

[@brainrussell6811]

@@DavidAsherBrown Probably due to him being a Brazilian artist who found his niche/fame in North America. I'm sure you know that Herb Alpert was responsible for introducing him to the West, and that Alpert's wife was Sergio's favorite go-to singer. And his New Brazil series were targeted to English listeners. I never heard of Mendez until the 1980's and just stumbled upon Waters of March about a month ago. Meanwhile, my wife - who is Ecuadorian - grew up listening to the original Brazilian version and had no clue who Mendez was until last month! Live, listen, and learn! It's a killer song, no matter the version.

[@tledier]

It's really beautiful and inspiring to see your love for music in every single one of your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion with us. (and I would love to see you talking about "Sinal Fechado", from the great Paulinho da Viola. )

[@DavidAsherBrown]

❤

[@randysummers7646]

Sir.. I Feel the same way about this song! ❤❤❤❤❤ Thank You

[@MarcoCastilloWorld]

C/Bb - Am6 - Fm6/Ab - C6/G - Gb7(#11) - FMaj7 - Fm6 - ll: C69/G - Gm7(9)/C - F#m7b5 - Fm6 :ll ....... Love this song and until today I need to read the chord progression to keep track as he does some variations with the same music intention, genius Jobim! Thank you for one more great video David!

[@thrstnblfss]

Hi Thx for the Video Its also my favorite song I sang it all the time the year I was volunteering in a monastery and also to a portuguese friend. And he was in a potuguese radio show now to share about his experience in the place and wished for aguas de marco to play❤

[@fracturedopal]

My favorite version of this song is the live one Elis Regina did on a TV special, just so great.

[@fracturedopal]

It is much slower, and therefore very meditative

[@jggouvea]

March is not usually the rainiest month. March is the first month of autumn. The rainy season in the Brazilian south-east goes from October to March, so the "Waters of March" do mark the end of summer and the rainy season. In my region (Minas Gerais south-est) March is usually the month when we have the second flood of the year (the first one is from late December to early January), the "guava flood".

[@markfretless]

An articulate analysis informed by an enthusiastic, deep love of the music...Thanks!

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you!

[@MrParallaxFx]

I loved your review!~

[@kcbueno]

Love to listen you talking about music!

[@Stefano50]

OBRIGADO !!!! Wonderful to find you here on KZbin!! Know you on IG for a long time too!! Always enjoy learning from you and sharing music that is so very near and dear to my heart as well.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

❤

[@BenjaminJohannesSanchez]

I would be thrilled to hear your analysis on Os Argonautas; personally, the version sung by Carla Pires is my favourite. There seems to be greater significance behind those words; I am a native Spanish speaker, and yet I feel I cannot quite grasp the deeper meaning of the lyrics.

[@emcrawfordtv]

If I can offer a suggestion, I'd say look into two enthusiasms of composer Caetano Veloso. One is his passion for French New Wave films around the time this was written, which tries to embody a feeling for life in films like François Truffaut's Jules et Jim not unlike the "life is too much for my heart" sentiments of the lyrics. And why the nautical metaphor? Perhaps his love for Dorival Caymmi's songs - which include several classics about the harsh and arbitrary fate of the fishermen of Bahia? And of course another element is that the song is a fado, the Portuguese genre which is generally mournful in tone and theme.

[@henriquemonteiro1]

Thanks for sharing!

[@ERIC-rh6sf]

So cool the fact that you tried to sing it in Portuguese! It sounded very good man! Really shows the passion you have for the song. Congrats 👏

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you!

[@VaniaSantos-nz4pb]

Amazing vídeo 🎉 greetings from Brazil ❤

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you! 😃

[@oswaldo66]

David I just discover your channel . musically amazing

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you!

[@am74343]

Listening to João Gilberto's versions of this tune, (especially the very stripped-down 1973 version), he plays some very strange inversions of the chords over some very strange bass notes. Absolutely masterful, but almost impossible to duplicate.

[@will0795]

Nice job! You talked through this really well, especially the bass line which is so important! 👍🏽

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you!

[@jvhbordim]

uma das melhores versões dessa musica e a do submarino 2021 xequerouti

[@paulcook6031]

I watched the duet with Tom and Elis sharing the mic with their playful movements along with the song-thanks, David, for that suggestion. I enjoyed what you explained about the 3rd inversion dominant 7th resolving downwards with the bass. It’s a terrific song. By the way I’m seeing Choro Das 3 this weekend. Their first US tour since the pandemic and loss of their father and percussionist. If I remember right it’s my fourth time to hear them live.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

❤

[@marcelocg]

So here goes one more suggestion: get acquainted with Dorival Caymmi music. Also his family! A whole family of fantastic composers and singers of very very beautiful music.

[@juliandavidcespedesroa3375]

Love your channel... that song was also a personal favorite (because of my birthday month)

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you!

[@marizearantes9948]

Fantastic 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@lhcnunes]

Você precisa ouvir o músico Dominguinhos e conhecer a incrível obra dele.

[@eduardoaraujo6504]

True!

[@GuilhermeSilva-rp2it]

Se puser Dominguinhos e Yamandu o cara pira. Mas já deve ter pirado com o Egberto.

[@GD-ns8wf]

Hi, I suggest you add Ivan Lins to your listening list. I am sure you will love his songs. Greetings from Rio.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you. Added!

[@maryuale]

You have great taste my friend

[@DavidAsherBrown]

❤

[@luizaabreu]

Você é incrível!

[@lhcnunes]

Recentemente entrou em cartaz nos cinemas aqui do Brasil o filme Elis e Tom, sobre o disco que eles gravaram juntos. O filme é ótimo. Você devia assistir.

[@GuilhermeSilva-rp2it]

Tom Jobim and Cesar Camargo Mariano play the piano on that song

[@vitoquintans]

Jobim loved birdsong, what you called "sprinkle of rain", is actually the song of a bird, "matita perê" like the name of the album in Portuguese, or "matita pereira", as in the lyrics. There is a legend that says that a witch disguises herself as this bird.

[@vitoquintans]

People believe that to hear the song of this bird, is a bad sign

[@mat829]

You should check the french version of agua de março which was created with the helped of Tom Jobim himself who was a close friend of Georges Moustaki

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you. I'll add that to my listening list!

[@eliane3132]

Thanks!

[@peczenyj]

Deixem o David uns 30 dias no Brasil e ele vai estar fazendo sua própria farofa. Brincadeiras a parte, nesse video estamos falando de dois colossos: Tom Jobim e Elis Regina, que infelizmente já faleceram. Outros ainda estão ativos ainda que (quase?) octagenários como Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil e Ney Matogrosso. Crescemos com essas musicas- e tantas outras. Estilos regionais. Samba

[@marcusdekker]

This song always makes me very sad. Thinking of Elis, that beautiful creative soul hurling toward inevitable death. Another one lost.

[@zappa_andre]

Amazing video, David! I'm a huge fan of your content! As someone that lives in São Paulo, yeah, march is the last month when it rains more. At least that's how it's tecnically supposed to go, São Paulo is famous for having kind of unpredictable weather (our joke is that it is one of the few places where you can experience all four seasons in a day, many days a year). By the way, you don't need to feel insecure at all with your portuguese pronunciation, it's very easy to understand the words you are saying, I've taught a little bit of portuguese for foreigners and I would have been so happy if any of my former students were able to mimic the sounds as well as you do! Let me know if you need any voice memos!

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you for your kind words and that insight!

[@cassiatenutadasilva2993]

Great video! Congratulations on your Portuguese pronunciation!

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you! 😃

[@mmaddox1787]

Wait? That's it? What happened to the rest of the song? This was so fascinating! More please!

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you! Maybe I'll record the entire song sometime. I'm not sure how best to get around copyright issues for things like that.

[@mmaddox1787]

@@DavidAsherBrown Thanks for replying. I hope you can figure it out. I just recently stumbled across this song within the last year and it was so awesome. Thanks for sharing what you found out about it.

[@Jaujau933]

You'll get over it David, it's a great song no question, but check out Gershwin he was a master too. 😎

[@guilhermebahia8749]

Thanks a lot! É pau é pedra é o fim do caminho….

[@fliprim]

Some of the most interesting reworking of Brazilian music is happening in Catalonia the new epicentre of Jazz. And its happening with kids from The Sant Andreu Jazz Band. Here they pick up the pace on this one... kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5Lde3uDe9uEadU then a few years later they are starting careers... kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6bLemR_aK11p6c

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Yes, I love these videos!

[@kareemadams1669]

David, could you pls make a bossa nova playlist for new listeners to the genre?

[@RodrigoPerez79]

Good job with the Portuguese, by the way.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you!

[@freitas15]

Halfway through the song there’s that instrumental only part. When they start singing again, I imagine a lightning strike when they say the word ‘pau’. Listen for it: “É uma cobra, é um PAU… “

[@DavidAsherBrown]

I love that!

[@jeffreyfeinstein5525]

V-cool! WHERE.. is yoUr version, pls?

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you! I haven't recorded this in full.

[@jeffreyfeinstein5525]

@@DavidAsherBrown (( it's been kinda difficult to get the appropriate vocalists out since around 2010. IF..i were more young ah might consider starting...a rally, 'March for Marços', lol. It was inspiring to be to able listen to this, maestro! ThanK you and stay blessed pls.

[@NMChannel13]

❤

[@urbancarvalho8497]

Hello. Please react "Travessia" by Milton Nascimento. Só cool this song. Hi from Brazil.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you. I have that on my suggestions list.

[@aeeio2239]

Have u heard Construção from Chico Buarque? I would love for u to do an analysis from it

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Yes, I have a video on that! 😉

[@marcellealves8746]

❤👏👏👏

Please react to Taiane by Armandinho, it is a Frevo, fast and energetic!

[@SelfLove65]

Waw! You really love our Brazilian music, and you know more about Tom Jobin than I do. I love your accent singing "Aguas De Marc,o"😊 Eh Pau, eh pedra... Yes, it is the ending of the summer and the water "rain", it is closing the season. ❤❤❤❤

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you!

[@andrevicente1985]

Do you know Djavan? I think you'll like it

[@DavidAsherBrown]

I haven't listened to too much yet but that is very high in my listening list as I've gotten many requests for it.

[@eduardoaraujo6504]

Good job singing those Portuguese verses.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you!

[@capsulamental]

well.. This song is also about the dictatorship Brazil was under. Any song criticizing the military regime would be censored, so they did it anyways, but in a way that the military would not understand. The dictatorship started on April. So the March waters were promising, because the president was promissing land reform and advance of workers' rights.. it was all interrupted with the military-industrialists coup. So the brazilians had to deal with a lot of repression and violence (sticks and stones, end of the road = death). Thousands of people died and we don't even know for sure how many, since the military did not want to face any of the consequences and every president after that are she3ting their pants afraid of them or even trying to impose another coup, like the former psycho president Bolsonaro.

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Thank you for this insight!

[@rcpinaud]

Also, do you know Adam Neely? He makes great content dissecting songs, technique, harmonies etc, and has a few great pieces on Brazilian music as well!

[@DavidAsherBrown]

I don't know him personally but I've seen some of his videos.

[@marcelocg]

Ah! And for a bit more jazzy brazilian music that is NOT Bossa Nova, listen to Ivan Lins. He is a multi Grammy nominee and Latin Grammy winner and has shared the stage with the likes of Lee Ritenour. His songs have been sung by Quincy Jones, George Benson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Barbra Streisand

[@PijanitsaVode]

6/5

[@luissilva7698]

Have you ever heard of Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil and Chico Buarque?

[@DavidAsherBrown]

Yes, I have videos about all of them! 😉

[@luissilva7698]

@@DavidAsherBrown will check out. Thanks.

[@britoroque]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2LXgIltrp5ners

[@charlesvanderhoog7056]

Your explanation ofvrain is completely false. It is about the dry river bed that fills with rain water from the mountains in a rush and that enables everyone to live again. E.g. in a dry hot summer season (January February!!!), drinking water and irrigation of fertile land becomes scarce.