#560 World Tour - Brazil & Opinions on Ryley Walker

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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With all eyes turned toward the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the Sound Opinions World Tour makes its next stop in Brazil, a country with an unmatched musical influence on the globe. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot explore the rich musical history of Brazil, including the bossa nova, MPB, and Tropicália phenomena of the 1950s and '60s. Plus, a review of the new album from Chicago fingerpicking virtuoso Ryley Walker.

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0:00.0	What do you love about music?
0:04.0	To begin with,
0:08.0	everything. Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world.
0:40.0	Even better than the athletic spectacle in Rio are the incredible sounds coming out of Brazil. So the Sound Opinions World Tour is making its next stop in Brazil.
0:44.0	We explore the country's rich musical heritage from Bossa Nova to
0:48.0	tropicalia and beyond.
0:50.0	Then we review the new album from singer-songwriter and finger-picking virtuoso, Riley Walker.
0:55.0	That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.
0:58.0	This is Sound Opinions and this week Jim we are taking a tour of Brazil because those summer Olympics
1:06.8	that you may or may not have been watching are just about wrapping up
1:09.7	But there's plenty of music to hear from that country as well.
1:13.0	Now this is a vast country with a vast history, so we're going to focus on one particular era
1:18.2	in 1958 through 68. Very important time for Brazilian music, the culture, the society, the country as a whole.
1:27.0	We're talking about a period when musically they went from Basinova to MPB to Tropicalia, movements that are still influencing to scene in Brazil. Yeah, it's not just ancient history.
1:43.2	To help guide us on our world tour, we're joined by Sergio Meel Neshenko.
1:47.4	Since 1978, he's hosted Brazilian Hour, a radio show in Los Angeles.
1:51.7	Sergio, welcome to sound opinions.
1:53.7	Oh, pleasure, pleasure to be with you.
1:55.5	So Sergio, Bosinova emerges in the 50s and it changes Brazilian music forever.
2:00.9	It's literally a new way, which is what Basanova means in Portuguese, right?
2:05.2	Right.
2:06.2	A new way.
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