Contragolpe Instrumental, by Carlo Alexandre

Contragolpe Instrumental

by Carlo Alexandre

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1.	Angola 02:19	info	buy track
2.	São Bento Pequeno 02:06	info	buy track
3.	São Bento Grande 02:06	info	buy track
4.	Angola Dobrada 03:04	info	buy track
5.	Jogo de Dentro 02:42	info	buy track
6.	Santa Maria 02:04	info	buy track
7.	Jeje 02:34	info	buy track
8.	Apanha a Laranja no Chão Tico-Tico 02:34	lyrics	buy track
Singer: Apanha a Laranja no chão Tico-tico / se meu amor for s’imbora eu não fico Choir: Apanha a Laranja no chão Tico-tico Singer: Minha toalha é de renda de bilro Choir: Apanha a Laranja no chão Tico-tico Singer: não é com a mão que se apanha é com o bico Choir: Apanha a Laranja no chão Tico-tico _____ Singer: Pick up the orange from the floor Tico-tico / if my love goes away I won't stay Choir: Pick the orange off the floor Tico-tico Singer: My towel (fabric) is made of bobbin lace Choir: Pick the orange off the floor Tico-tico Singer: You don't catch with your hand, you catch with your beak Choir: Pick the orange off the floor Tico-tico
9.	Yúna 02:30	info	buy track
10.	Cavalaria 02:10	info	buy track
11.	Samba de Roda 02:41	info	buy track

about

When I started learning capoeira, there was no special classes where you specifically learned the musicality of this art. Things were different in the 80’s. Since then, many things have changed, and actually I do believe that many of it have improved.

I remember vividly asking my master like this?

- But how did you made this rhythm variation and so?

And he answered me:

- I don't remember

It was so, there was no didactics or even care for a pedagogy between the master and the apprentices.

"Its principle has not been measured and its end is inconceivable to the wisest capoeirista," Mestre Pastinha once said.

A few years later I was lucky enough to get a copy of a cassette tape (which I keep until today) with capoeira rhythms recorded on Radio MEC by Mestre Moraes when he was still living in Rio de Janeiro.

That’s how it happened. From this material I learned my lessons and took my notes, from a cassette tape! But soon I would already be attending the "Rodas de Capoeira" in Rio de Janeiro, and the organic musicality of the capoeira began to infect me and the learning happened and happens until today when I go to play capoeira, play music and enjoy the ritual of a roda.

This album of rhythms was inspired by that old cassette tape.

credits

released July 13, 2018

Credits Contragolpe:

Carlo Alexandre (berimbau gunga)
Cat Gardner (agogô)
Fábio prado (pandeiro)
Kezia Lavan (agogô)
Miguel Santos (pandeiro)
Nelio Rodrigues (berimbau médio)
Paul Healey (berimbau viola)
Vitoria Cristina L. Aranha (atabaque)

Technicians:
Marc Lee Brown, Sound Engineer
Joshua Gaskin Brown, recording assistant
Jassim Jaffer sound, engineering assistant

Recording @ Raw Material Music & Media Education

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Capoeira & Brazilian Experimental London, UK

I was born in Rio de Janeiro, I started in capoeira when I was 16 years old. My artistic and creative training goes mainly through this art form. From there I learned music, film and theatre. Since 1996 I have been going back and forth from Brazil to the United Kingdom, and recently to Mexico, where I currently live. I worked in slums in Rio, theatre in London and productions in Asia and Scotland. ... more