Recorded in the historic Brazilian town of Ouro Preto on July 7 and 8, 2001, MTV Ao Vivo became the first live album by Skank, one of the most popular local bands. In front of 30,000 fans the pop/rock ensemble celebrated their tenth anniversary, playing their first smash, "Garota Nacional," along with major hits such as "Jackie Tequila," "Saideira ...
To commemorate the end of the century, Sony Music assembled the gargantuan 26-disc box set Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century. The title was imposing, as was the idea behind it -- to chronicle the life of the oldest record label in the music industry. To be clear, Sony Music has not existed for 100 years, but the heart of its catalog, ...
After eight years of career and five solo albums, the band Skank changes pace, abandoning the formula that made them internationally known ("Garota Nacional," with its sexually spiced lyrics, brass arrangements, and reggae). Influences here are the Beach Boys, surf guitar, the Kinks, the Sonics, Asian Dub Foundation, Mano Negra, Freddy Fresh, the ...
Enormously popular in Brazil, Skank plays reggae-tinged rock (or is that rock-tinged reggae?) not unlike that on the earliest records of Elvis Costello & the Attractions or Graham Parker & the Rumour. Not to imply that Skank is on the same songwriting level, but O Samba Pocone did cement the group's mainstream popularity in Brazil with "É Uma ...
Cleopatra describes Ska au Go Go as a CD that singer/producer Neville Staple (of the Specials and Fun Boy Three fame) "put together for the die-hard ska fans," which is sort of like calling Robert Cray a blues purist who never strays from the 12-bar format. Cray is an excellent bluesman, but he's no purist -- many of his songs have more to do with ...
Soccer and Brazil have always been inextricably linked (they've won the World Cup more times than any other country and many of the sport's greatest stars have hailed from Brazil), from the children playing with rag balls on the street to the bright yellow jerseys that, like the players, make themselves very well known wherever they go. The most ...
Before the third album, Samba Poconé, which sold 1.5 million copies, Calango, the second, with its 1,100,000 copies sold, helped Skank to sell 2.6 million CDs in 1996. The album is named after a folkloric rhythm of the home state of its members, Minas Gerais. The calango is a cutting contest between two cantadores who improvise verses and is ...
The Trojan label box sets are one of the best introductions into specific Jamaican genres on the market. The budget-priced boxes stuff in over 50 songs across three CDs, and although they are parsimonious with the liner notes and infuriatingly unhelpful with the credits, there isn't much of better value to be had. The Trojan D.J. box set is yet a ...
Siderado is another solid, competent, but unspectacular album release by Skank containing reggae-ska-rock-pop of the same radio-friendly sort that, through their previous three CDs, made Skank so enormously popular in Brazil. The best songs of the album are "Siderado," "Saideira," "Romance Noir," and "Resposta." "Resposta," a simple but well ...
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