It has been a while since I posted and the time for pretty leaves has come.
Fall is one of my favorite seasons as it's the time for premium sweater weather, nostalgic music listenings, the smell of burning (around halloween, it always smells like that), and crunchy leaves to play in.
I'm also pretty happy that classes have started because the summer was pretty boring (nothing much to do at school w/ it being so empty and all). Hopefully things shall continue to improve :)
I have signed up for Portuguese lessons as well. It's a pretty convenient time to learn it, as it coincides with my Brazilian drumming. Perhaps I'll actually understand what the wednesday teacher says to some of the Brazilians sometimes :) But, I'm just generally excited about learning another language and I'm hoping i'll catch on easily as I know french and some spanish.
Speaking of things related to Brazil, I'd like to share this Capoeira video with you guys. I have seen Capoeira being done before, but I like this song and I rarely see people moving this fast + check out the head slide.
I'm not nearly bouncy enough for it though. I shall just observe :D
On a similar note - a friend of mine posted a cool karate video on Facebook about the style of Karate I practiced. Now I only wish my classes were that cool. It's pretty inspiring how they seem to move so easily with such sharp techniques.
Now it has come to my attention (whilst walking around downtown a few weeks ago) that Montreal has a cheesecake restaurant. This is exciting! I haven't been there yet, but I have been to the cheesecake factory in Boston. So one day I will venture there and explore their various selections of confectionary goodness.
In terms of music stuff, I haven't been to a concert since Osheaga and probably won't be at one in the forseeable future. There is not much coming around and nothing I particularly want to see. Kind of a musical low time you could say.
I haven't been listening to much new stuff either, but I will list a few things I have been listening to lately.
Brazilian stuff:
Putumayo Presents: Brasileiro
I particularly like the songs "Canto das Tres Racas", "Danca de Solidao", "Visgo de Jaca"
Cartola - Cartola (1974)
Alvorada, Preciso me Encontrar, Minha
I found out about this dude because of the Cidade de Deus soundtrack (which is also quite good. The movie is excellent)
Here's a song from the movie:
Os Partideiros de Pla - Metem Bronca
Arengueiro, Tem capoeira, E poeiro E po
Compilations:
Putumayo Presents (in general - been trying out a lot of the Putumayo Compilations lately):
French Caribbean
Ayiti Bang Bang (that's the song that plays with the capoeira video), Mandolin, Rete
Mexico This one is awesome because it's totally old style Ranchero music:
El Tecolote (you can't help but love the laugh at the beginning), La Bruja, Ranchu Gubina
Gypsy Caravan
Diri Diri so kerdjan, Movi Shej sabina
Actually, Gypsy Beats and Balkan Bangers Vol 1 and 2 are also great Gypsy CD Compilations :)
For non-compilations:
Lately, I've been listening the new Placebo (Battle for the Sun), Muse(The Resistance) and Islands (Vapours) CD's. I really like the first track from Vapours.
There's a band I just discovered called "Washed Out" and I really like the feel of their music. Kinda 80s lo-fi/mellow electronic or so.
He has a cassette called "High Times", but for the moment it's sold out and it's not on the internet either as far as I know...hopefully it'll pop up some time. I would like to hear it :)
And now to end, a blast from the past that I just heard recently:
Until next time
