Artist Lounge: Dorival Caymmi
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The most important figure in 20th century Brazilian popular music - perhaps after Jobim, but nobody else - has died at 94. I know I've posted Caymmi before, but he was a really special man and always worth hearing. His songs - which he was given to rearranging and re-recording multiple times, as if to demonstrate just how durable they were - have the simplicity-that's-not-really-simplicity that marks, for me, the greatest pop music. This song, for instance, sounds like... MORE
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I'm sure she meant well. However, she forwarded a chain e-mail to my work address today that was quietly devastating. It was a slide show of Christo Redentor, the Christ the Redeeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, taken from a number of different angles, in daylight and at nighttime. Now all I can think about is how much I would love to go back to Rio de Janeiro (otherwise known as the coolest city in the world). For reasons of money and time, it ain't happening any time soon.... MORE
