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Native Brazilian Music

Giselle Winston — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:47:43 +0100

Native Brazilian Music Just been watching a youtube video about the lost Rio carnival film footage of Rio Carnival in 1942 shot by Orson Welles. It brought in mind another great lost samba recording from the same era, also lost through indifference the vaults of some USA media corporation Back in the late1990s I bought a number of old samba Vinyl LPs from a street seller in Caetete in Rio de Janeiro. There was an LP called 'Native Brazilian Music' with credits to Leopold Stokowski - ...

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Mangueira records its samba enredo for carnaval 2012 - choir

Giselle Winston — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Mangueira records the backing vocals for the official CD of Grupo Especial samba-enredos for Rio carnival 2012

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Mangueira records its bossas for the Carnaval 2012 CD

Giselle Winston — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:45:15 +0100

Here's the bateria of Mangueira recording its breaks (bossas) for the official recording of the Sambas de enredo CD Rio carnival 2012.

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Mangueira records its new Samba 2012 - tamborins

Giselle Winston — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:34:38 +0100

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Watch the building of the new sambodromo in time lapse

Giselle Winston — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:47:22 +0100

Video timelapse of the building of the New Sambodromo

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