▄▄███████▄ IGR - Infinite Grooves
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┌───────────────--·(Infinite Grooves ·· Proudly Presents)·-─────────────────┐
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│║ Jorge Ben - A Banda Do ZΘ Pretinho ║│
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│║ Record Label: Som Livre No Of Tracks: 11 ║│
│║ Genre: Latin Quality: 192K HQ ║│
│║ Rip Date: Dec-07-2002 Total Size: 53,1 MB ║│
└╢ Issue Year: 1978 Original Media: [ ] CD - [x] Vinyl ╟┘
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┌─────────────────────────────--·(Rip Notes)·-──────────────────────────────┐
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│║ Tracklisting: ║│
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│║ 01 - A Banda Do ZΘ Pretinho 03:55 ║│
│║ 02 - Troca Troca 02:53 ║│
│║ 03 - Bom Dia, Boa Tarde, Boa Noite Amor 03:42 ║│
│║ 04 - CadΩ O Penalty 03:15 ║│
│║ 05 - Minha Estrela Θ Do Oriente 03:15 ║│
│║ 06 - Treze Pontos 02:23 ║│
│║ 07 - Menino Jesus De Praga 03:38 ║│
│║ 08 - Amante Amado 04:23 ║│
│║ 09 - Berenice 02:34 ║│
│║ 10 - Denize Rei 04:39 ║│
│║ 11 - Viva Sπo Pedro 03:56 ║│
│║ ----- ║│
│║ 38:33 ║│
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│║ While many of the performers during the heyday of tropicalia and ║│
│║ the rise of MPB (musica popular brasileira) opted for a more ║│
│║ radical stance in their challenge Brazil's political and cultural ║│
│║ authorities, artist like Jorge Ben took a more understated ║│
│║ approach. Rather than use overly theatrical performance to shock ║│
│║ the audience or write songs loaded with political content, Ben ║│
│║ became known as one of the country's great musical alchemists, a ║│
│║ furiously eclectic songwriter who combined elements of indigenous ║│
│║ Brazilian music with a groove from the west coast of Africa. ║│
│║ Never a controversial figure in the manner of the tropicalistas ║│
│║ like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, Jorge Ben became one of the ║│
│║ most respected and resilient figures in Brazilian pop. ║│
│║ Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1940, Ben took up bossa nova guitar ║│
│║ playing after hearing Joao Gilberto but found the style to ║│
│║ complex to execute. This led to his developing his own approach ║│
│║ to the bossa nova that focused on playing the guitar as one would ║│
│║ a bass ù his early recordings are in fact bass-less. His first ║│
│║ big hit as a singer-songwriter came at the age of 23 with "Mas, ║│
│║ Que Nada." The song's subtle bossa nova groove proved so ║│
│║ seductive that it was quickly covered by a number of Brazilian ║│
│║ artists, most successfully by Sergio Mendes. During the military ║│
│║ dictatorship's cultural crackdown in the late '60s Ben, whose ║│
│║ music wasn't scrutinized as rigorously as that of tropicalistas ║│
│║ like Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, was able to perform without ║│
│║ too much trouble into the early '70s. Still, he felt the long arm ║│
│║ of Brazilian censorship when a 1971 performance was stopped in ║│
│║ mid-song because censors felt as though Ben's backup singers were ║│
│║ dancing too suggestively. ║│
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│║ It was from the late '60s to mid '70s that Ben established ║│
│║ himself as a songwriting force within Brazil. Over the next ten ║│
│║ to fifteen years he expanded his reach, with varying success, to ║│
│║ Europe and America (he's more popular in Europe than here.) In ║│
│║ 1989 he released the album Benjor simultaneously announcing that ║│
│║ he was changing his last name to Benjor. During that same time ║│
│║ period Ben realized his dream of working with prominent African ║│
│║ musicians when he collaborated with Nigeria's King Sunny Ade, and ║│
│║ also was represented on an anthology of Brazilian music compiled ║│
│║ by former Talking Head David Byrne. Although not as politically ║│
│║ radical as many of his contemporaries Jorge Ben proved that in ║│
│║ certain contexts and under unusually repressive restraint music ║│
│║ takes on a readical political dimension. - John Dougan ║│
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│║ Remember to support these artists by some method if you like them ║│
│║ by going to their concerts / buying more of their material / etc. ║│
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┌───────────────────────--·(About Infinite Grooves)·-───────────────────────┐
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│║ Infinite Grooves was founded in early 1999 with the belief that ║│
│║ the best music has already been made. This was a neglected part ║│
│║ of releasing in the MP3-scene - now that has changed with Infinite ║│
│║ Grooves at the top. We will constantly keep bringing you the very ║│
│║ best in disco-soul, rare grooves, jazz-funk etc. Like wine, a good ║│
│║ groove only gets better with age - so we will bring you back to ║│
│║ the olde school! ║│
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│║ Infinite Grooves is always open for new true funk-friends to help ║│
│║ us in our efforts to spread groovy music. This includes rippers, ║│
│║ site-ops, box-ops and just about anybody with skills or services ║│
│║ to offer that could be of interest to a group like us. If we want ║│
│║ you, you will know where to find us. All you gotta do is to love ║│
│║ the funk! ║│
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