{"id":11977,"date":"2024-02-19T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11977"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:00:42","slug":"music-gal-costas-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11977","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Gal Costa\u2019s India\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sjas9o-u1BI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been listening to Gal Costa\u2019s 1973 album India. It\u2019s fabulous. It\u2019s taking me out of my normal bossa and samba-jazz zones, into what I guess is a mix of traditional Brazilian music and MPB. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this track, Relance, is a great example of that. Written by famed artist\/composer Caetano Veloso, it\u2019s based around a very funky and folksy cyclic accordion pattern. Both very trad\u2019, and weirdly modernist. Something a lot of MPB I\u2019ve encountered does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nearest I\u2019ve come to this previously is in Marcos Valle\u2019s later &#8211; by which I mean post \u2018pure bossa\u2019 stuff &#8211; from the late\u201960s a d into the \u201870s. That is also all over the map. And I love it. I se se B-road new vistas opening before me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can be b-b-bewildering. There\u2019s so much to explore! B-b-butt\u2026 returning to Gal Costa, it doesn\u2019t half help, as a way into her music, that she\u2019s an absolutely b-b-bewitching siren!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been listening to Gal Costa\u2019s 1973 album India. It\u2019s fabulous. It\u2019s taking me out of my normal bossa and samba-jazz zones, into what I guess is a mix of traditional Brazilian music and MPB. And this track, Relance, is a great example of that. Written by famed artist\/composer Caetano Veloso, it\u2019s based around a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Gal Costa\u2019s India\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-37b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}