mopc

Asa Branca is easily the best song in the Northeastern "forró" genre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5r2_wGk1dI

Iskander

I don’t know anything about Brazil, but I like the music

I also enjoyed Orfeu negro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwn4vYR_3Y4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgo9av539gU
Astrud Gilberto - Manha De Carnabal

Iskander

I wonder if you could identify this Brazilian film for me:

Husband plays an instrument in a municipal orchestra
Wife has an affair
Lover becomes jealous of her husband and, while his lover sleeps, he draws and arrow on her abdomen pointing straight to the woman’s sex and writes on her abdomen;
Solo meu (I think) only mine.
The woman is not aware of what the lover has done
Husband discovers the clear massage written on her belly...

I think it is a short story written by a Brazilian author.
Any luck?

mopc

Sounds like a good story but unfortunately I have never seen anything like it, though it sounds familiar, I'll ask at a Brazilian forum and let you know.

Iskander

Thank you.
I have corrected my post:


Husband plays an instrument in a municipal band

Wife has an affair

Male lover becomes jealous of her husband and, while his lover sleeps, he draws and arrow on her abdomen pointing straight to the woman’s sex and writes on her abdomen:Solo meu (I think) only mine.

The woman is not aware of what her lover has done

Husband discovers the clear massage written on her belly...

I think it is a short story written by a Brazilian author

Iskander

Where could I find the lyrics for this song?


Baiao de Viramundo: Tribute to Luiz Gonzaga
Regarded as a spokesman for the rural culture of his beloved northeastern desert homeland, accordionist, composer and singer Luiz Gonzaga helped to popularize the humble country music of the Northeast of Brazil.

For the many poor and working-class Northeastern Brazilians who have been displaced from their home region for economic reasons, the music of forró is a redemptive attempt at establishing an immanent relationship to history and community in the diaspora.

http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?e...cordeid=311076

mopc

Perhaps the most beautiful words uttered in the Brazilian Portuguese language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHgU4...eature=related

Soneto de Fidelidade, by Vinícius de Moraes

mopc

Asa Branca
Luíz Gonzaga

Quando "oiei" a terra ardendo (when I looked at the land burning)
Qual a fogueira de São João (like a Saint John's bonfire)
Eu perguntei a Deus do céu, ai (I asked God in heaven)
Por que tamanha judiação (why such a calamity)

Eu perguntei a Deus do céu, ai
Por que tamanha judiação

Que braseiro, que fornaia (what an ember pot, what an oven)
Nem um pé de "prantação" (not a single plant in the plantation)
Por farta d'água perdi meu gado (for lack of water I lost my cattle)
Morreu de sede meu alazão (my horse died of thirst)

Por farta d'água perdi meu gado
Morreu de sede meu alazão

Inté mesmo a asa branca (even the white wing)
Bateu asas do sertão (flew away from the outback)
"Intonce" eu disse, adeus Rosinha (then I said goodby Rose)
Guarda contigo meu coração (keep my heart with you)

"Intonce" eu disse, adeus Rosinha
Guarda contigo meu coração

Hoje longe, muitas légua (today far away many miles)
Numa triste solidão (in a sad soliness)
Espero a chuva cair de novo (I wait for the rain to fall again)
Pra mim vortar pro meu sertão (so I can go back to my outback)

Espero a chuva cair de novo
Pra mim vortar pro meu sertão

Quando o verde dos teus "óio" (when the green of your eyes)
Se "espaiar" na prantação (spreads over the plantation)
Eu te asseguro não chore não, viu (I assure you, do not cry, see)
Que eu vortarei, viu (because I'm going back)
Meu coração (my sweetheart)

Eu te asseguro não chore não, viu
Que eu vortarei, viu
Meu coração


Litteral translation is mine. The song is typical Northeastern Brazilian and speaks of the seasonal droughts that affected the outback near Recife and Fortaleza, causing much poverty and migration to other parts of Brazil.

Iskander

Muito obrigado

Iskander

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8625243-So...cius_de_Moraes

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8625245-So...cius_de_Moraes

Do you like the English translation?


De tudo ao meu amor serei atento
Antes, e com tal zelo, e sempre, e tanto
Que mesmo em face do maior encanto
Dele se encante mais meu pensamento.

Quero vivê-lo em cada vão momento
E em seu louvor hei de espalhar meu canto
E rir meu riso e derramar meu pranto
Ao seu pesar ou seu contentamento

E assim, quando mais tarde me procure
Quem sabe a morte, angústia de quem vive
Quem sabe a solidão, fim de quem ama

Eu possa me dizer do amor (que tive):
Que não seja imortal, posto que é chama
Mas que seja infinito enquanto dure.