Second Saturday Forró w/ z'Bumba @ Mississippi Pizza
z'Bumba
Second Saturday Forró featuring z'Bumba
Special guests Infinite Bossa
Mississippi Pizza Pub
3552 N Mississippi, Portland
http://mississippipizza.com
9 PM. $6 "21 and over"
Please join z'Bumba January 8, and every Second Saturday, at
Mississipi Pizza. It's a good thing the dance is easy to do for
pretty much anybody, because if you've got a pulse, you're almost
certainly going to want to.
Infinite bossa begins the show at 9.
Bossa usually leaves me cold, but this band has enough going for it to
make it pretty enjoyable.
Bossa nova has been around for a while. Your grandparents probably
listened to it, no joke, and "Girl from Ipanema" is practically
synonymous with elevator music. In the US, it's too often performed by
nerdy old jazz dudes, and singers who can't pronounce the gorgeous
language, relegated to a corner of a swanky restaurant.
The great thing about Infinite Bossa is that the interpretations are
natural, spirited, genuine, and personal. It helps that husband and
wife Alexandra and Anderson are from the very city that birthed Bossa,
not only because they grew up with it, but also that they bring that
certain sunny, overflowing friendliness and joy characteristic of many
Brazilians to the performance, seamlessly. It's the vital part of the
music that the Jazz Nerds are missing.
Naturally, they're all - let's not forget Pam - fine musicians.
Forget the other crusty, dusty, bossaneers -- I'd go see Infinite
Bossa, even if they were in a corner of some swanky restaurant.
Infinite Bossa -
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pages/Infinite-Bossa/139089676132258
See you there!
z'Bumba
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Brazil is larger than the continental United States, and a couple
hundred years older (colonially speaking) yet most citizens in the
north part of America know exactly two forms of Brazilian music -
samba and bossa nova. “Girl From Ipanema”? Just keep walking, baby…
Forró (pronounced fo-HOH) is music of the Brazilian people - the
working class - and is quite unlike the cocktail-smooth sounds of
bossa nova or the feathered carna...val hysteria of samba. Once
considered only “music for maids and taxi drivers,” forró was
marginalized and frowned at much like the blues in the U.S. And like
the blues, forró has since gained a footing in its homeland, become
cool, even in samba-mad Rio. True to its egalitarian roots, it’s
believed the name “forró” comes from Brazilian workers reading English
mining company posters which advertised company dances as “for all,”
meaning not just management.
And incredibly enough, Portland, Oregon is home to one of the boldest
and most faithful purveyors of forró (a rare commodity itself) on the
West Coast – z’Bumba.
z’Bumba shoots out relentless, synaptic-swift rhythms from a ringing
triangle and then layers in swirling accordion lines like sweet guava.
The rest is built on the bass-register and traditional percussion,
including the large, shoulder-slung zabumba bass drum.
The Portuguese vocals, delivered by z’Bumba lead singer and São Paulo
native, Gabriella Tagliacozzo, sound like a smile, often culminating
in a gleeful full-band chorus. And sometimes there’s a haughty tone,
maybe even a little defiant. It’s all in the history of forró.
z’Bumba band members often wear the traditional Chapeu de Coco – a
large, upturned leather hat associated with the Cangaçeiros.
Cangaçeiro refers to a form of “social banditry” that thrived in the
harsh northeastern deserts of Brazil from the 1830s to the mid-1900s,
a kind of nomadic Robin Hood subculture. Fed and protected from the
colonial government police by poor villagers, Cangaçeiros were native
outcasts who became known for their leatherwork, their revolvers, and
especially their trademark peixeiras. Although these long knives were
typically used for gutting fish, Cangaçeiros used them to gut wealthy
landowners and their mercenaries. Of course, after they gut, they
drank, sang and danced to forró!
Indeed, the Cangaçeiros’ love of music was so deep that their leader,
Lampião, had at least one theme song. Later gunned down by military
machine guns in 1938, his status as a 20th century folk hero was
(literally!) set in stone, and has been revisited countless times in
countless songs, movies, books and TV soap operas.
MUSICIANS
Gabriella Tagliacozzo - vocals, guitar, percussion
Jake “Barbudo” - vocals, basses, tuba, percussion
Evan ‘Moyseis’ Stuckless – accordion
Joe 'Zé Raiz' Root - accordion
Chariti ‘Stremf’ Montez – triangle, percussion, backing vocals
Blake ‘Cabra’ Thomas - zabumba
Angela ‘Crafty’ Barco - quengueira (woodblock tree,) percussion,
backup vocals
Hans ‘Lambada’ Barklis – cavaquinho (Brazilian steel-string ukelele)
BOOKING & PUBLICITY
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Matt Kalinowski
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