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    Brazilian music on Fridays: ‘Fé cega, faca amolada’

    Big pile of exams to mark here today, so this will be a short post. I’m going with an unchallenged classic: ‘Fé cega, faca amolada’, from Milton Nascimento’s 1975 album Minas (one of the albums I listened to over and over again as a child), in a duo with Beto Guedes. Besides the awesomeness of the song and of Milton’s voice, I really like the instrumental arrangement: it mixes jazzy undertones with some psychedelic distorted guitars, and the overall result is quite unexpected — and quite something!

      

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    3 responses to “Brazilian music on Fridays: ‘Fé cega, faca amolada’”

    1. dmf Avatar
      dmf

      ha well for once I’m glad to report that I will not be offering a challenge to an unchallenged classic this is quite something, sort like the soundtrack from Hair, Paul Winter, and an occasional bit of Zappa, happy grading…

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    2. Catarina Dutilh Novaes Avatar
      Catarina Dutilh Novaes

      Ha, cool, so no challenges today! (Grading was enough of a challenge, and thankfully it’s done now.) I cannot imagine that anyone with a 1/10th of a musical brain could possibly challenge this song, it’s just too perfect…

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    3. dmf Avatar
      dmf

      some post-grading into the weekend tunes:
      http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/story/zion-80-in-studio/

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