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 World Routes in Brazil   1/51World Routes at the Carnival in Olinda WORLD ROUTES Presented by Lucy Duran Produced by James Parkin Recorded and mixed by Martin Appleby Meet the Production Team Tel. 020 7765 4661 Fax. 020 7765 4378 e-mail world.routes@bbc.co.uk WORLD ROUTES IN BRAZIL, 2008 Lucy Duran explores Brazil’s North Eastern state of Pernambuco, travelling inland to the barren semi-desert area known as the Sertao. Few people visit this harsh, hot and in parts, lawless place. Despite its reputation in Brazil as poor and miserable, it's home to some wonderful and unexpected musical traditions. PART 1 Saturday 27th December 2008, 3:00pm In the first of two programmes, Lucy Duran travels to rural North East Brazil in search of traditional Forro, a style of accordion driven country music much-loved in Brazil, but little known outside. She learns about the godfather of Forro, the late Luis Gonzaga, and records session by 2 living legends of the style. Plus, there's an electrifying performance from the Afro-Brazilian group -Coco Raizes -who dance wearing wooden sandals to create machine-gun-like percussion, and a chance encounter with three leather-clad singing cowboys on horseback. View the playlist and listen to part 1 PART 2 Saturday 3rd January 2009, 3:00pm Lucy visits the Sertao, Brazil's semi-desert. Arriving during election time, she meets an important local politician during his busy campaign period. Straddling the roles of poacher and gamekeeper, he is also one of the area's most significant protest singers and spares World Routes the time to talk about his music and to sing songs about, amongst other tings, the destruction of the rain forests and 9/11. Lucy also encounters a community of run-away slaves, the Quilombola, who still perpetuate their African traditions of song and dance, and learns about Pifano marching bands. View the playlist and listen to part 2 PART 3 Saturday 7th February 2009, 3:00pm To celebrate the Brazilian carnival and its music, Lucy Duran travels to two places famous for their Carnivals - Recife in the Northeast and Rio de Janeiro in the Southeast. She discovers some of the rhythms unique to Recife including maracatu, frevo and ciranda, recorded on a beach, in a cow-shed and in the old colonial city of Olinda. She also finds out about the mangue bit movement and its frontman, the late Chico Science. View the playlist and listen to part 3 PART 4 Saturday 14th February 2009, 3:00pm In search of Carnival music, Lucy Duran continues her forray in Brazil, recording music from the Afro-Brazilian Candomble cult as well as the singer Renato Rosa. In Rio, she visits Brazil's biggest slum to attend its first carnival rehearsal of the year, and meets one of the city's most decorated samba groups, Velha Guarda - the old guard - of Portela. View the playlist and listen to part 4 PART 5 Saturday 15th February 2009, 3:00pm Lucy Duran concludes her three-part exploration of music associated with Brazil's Carnival in Rio where she visits Rocinha which is Brazil's largest slum, or favela. Controlled by the drug dealers, its 200000 residents live in constant fear of violence. Amongst all this, Lucy discovers a small music school where the kids are taught to sing and play samba. Plus, she goes in search of the African roots of samba, and meets a star of modern-day samba, Mart'nalia. View the playlist and listen to part 5 |
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