In Production BROKEN CITY BROKEN CITY is a documentary that analyses the criminality increase in Rio de Janeiro through the history of CRUZADA and its inhabitants, trying to understand how Rio de Janeiro regressed to a feudal regime, where favelas are countries within the country… ruled by drug dealers with their own armies and their own economic autonomy. NAS NUVENS featuring Lulu Santos NAS NUVENS is a series that dissects recording files from the biggest HITS in MPB… we comment each instrument separately and also the narrative of how arrangements were made… the “cases” and stories behind each SUPER HIT… it’s an untold x-ray of each MPB masterpiece, showing the final result of each song, and also other renditions through unusual remixes. NAS NUVENS featuring Titãs Tony Bellotto NAS NUVENS is a series that dissects recording files from the biggest HITS in MPB… we comment each instrument separately and also the narrative of how arrangements were made… the “cases” and stories behind each SUPER HIT… it’s an untold x-ray of each MPB masterpiece, showing the final result of each song, and also other renditions through unusual remixes. NAS NUVENS featuring Paralamas Bi and Barone NAS NUVENS is a series that dissects recording files from the biggest HITS in MPB… we comment each instrument separately and also the narrative of how arrangements were made… the “cases” and stories behind each SUPER HIT… it’s an untold x-ray of each MPB masterpiece, showing the final result of each song, and also other renditions through unusual remixes. NAS NUVENS featuring Fernanda Abreu NAS NUVENS is a series that dissects recording files from the biggest HITS in MPB… we comment each instrument separately and also the narrative of how arrangements were made… the “cases” and stories behind each SUPER HIT… it’s an untold x-ray of each MPB masterpiece, showing the final result of each song, and also other renditions through unusual remixes. NAS NUVENS featuring Paula Toller NAS NUVENS is a series that dissects recording files from the biggest HITS in MPB… we comment each instrument separately and also the narrative of how arrangements were made… the “cases” and stories behind each SUPER HIT… it’s an untold x-ray of each MPB masterpiece, showing the final result of each song, and also other renditions through unusual remixes. NAS NUVENS featuring Sergio Mendes NAS NUVENS is a series that dissects recording files from the biggest HITS in MPB… we comment each instrument separately and also the narrative of how arrangements were made… the “cases” and stories behind each SUPER HIT… it’s an untold x-ray of each MPB masterpiece, showing the final result of each song, and also other renditions through unusual remixes. AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring anitta Revamping one’s music career is something that happens frequently… Sgt Peppers is an anthological Beatles album that triggered the passage from romantic rock ballads to a more symphonic and lysergic sound. Anitta is a musical phenomenon that came from the marginalized areas’ funk movement. Once she became successful, she broadened her horizons with a side B repertoire: soul, rhythm and blues, with a touch of jazz that come out unceremoniously. REVAMPING is the story of this difficult passage. AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring samuel rosa Samuel Rosa, leader of SKANK, is a fanatic soccer supporter… nothing better than talking about soccer… regarding the crisis of the most popular sport in Brazil. In the episode called SCORE, Samuel Rosa talks about soccer. He talks about the thrill of his first experience with the sport, still at a young age, he explains his music career choice, his disappointment over the 7 to 1 Brazil loss in the 2014 World Cup, sharing with the public his joys and sorrows about the current path Brazilian soccer is taking. AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring andreas kisser SEPULTURA is the most globally successful Brazilian band, but life on the road is not easy. HIGHWAY to HELL is a report on life on the road, which undulates between heaven and hell. Representative of the Heavy Metal movement, with an internationally renowned career, Andreas Kisser travels around with his music across the four corners of the Earth AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring vanessa da mata From an early age, Vanessa da Mata had the opportunity to travel around Africa, particularly Luanda, Angola… On the show, she narrates her vision of Africa, what the tribal culture is like and the entirely different planet that this continent represents. From Mali’s music to Agualusa’s literature, she dissects the African behavior nuances in regard to the rest of the world, religion, and the origin of the great differences. AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring Dado Villa Lobos Former member of one of the most relevant Brazilian bands, LEGIÃO URBANA, Dado Villa Lobos has a second activity… composing for film and television. He’s composed soundtracks for films such as Buffo & Spalanzani, The Man of the Year and Dream Inventor... Dado narrates the differences between composing for a film, where the soundtrack isn’t exactly music, or for an album. He talks about his fascination for the world of images and his personal experiences with directors . AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring negra li Coming from the marginalized areas’ movements, Negra Li highlights the importance of television so that any artist can have even a slight chance of success. She evaluates what it is, how it should be, and how she wishes TV and social media were… reflecting about the advantages and dangers of the new forms of communication that are in full evolution in today’s world. AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring Elba Ramalho She’s a connoisseur of Northeastern music and culture. Elba draws a parallel between cultural manifestations of improvised singing, such as American “Rap” and the Northeastern “Repente”… in the analysis of the Northeastern songbook, she delivers an emotional report on the Northeastern social reality (which is the matrix of the musicality she represents and sings), expressing her concerns about the future of the country and the Brazilian Northeast. AUDIO PORTRAIT freaturing Lobão Lobão was a great enthusiast of the Brazilian Labor Party… Nowadays, he feels like his support was betrayed and he feels hopelessness regarding Brazil. Not for a lack of effort, he develops a coherent narrative about how governments based on assistencialism hide dangerous intentions. AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring Toni Garrido BLACK, WHITE AND GRAY’s conversationalist is Toni Garrido, accompanied by CIDADE NEGRA. As luck would have it, Toni’s mother, a maid, worked for a white family who had resources and social program on their side and raised him as a son. A black man in a society where the best chances for education belong to white people, for a multitude of reasons, Toni narrates his point of view about racial prejudice, in a neutral way, through the eyes of someone who knew how to grab his opportunity. AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring George, Leoni, Guto, Arnaldo FRIENDLY FIRE is a radiography for rockn’roll bands throughout the years. Paul and John, from the Beatles, Mick and Keith, from the Rolling Stones, Sting and Stewart, from the Police, and even the Gallagher brothers, from Oasis… best of friends in youth, worst of enemies as adults. The almost inevitable breakup seems to follow a very similar script, … LEONI , GEORGE ISRAEL , GUTO GOFFI and ARNALDO BRANDÃO bring forth the reason that caused these partnerships and breakups. AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring Raimundo Fagner HALF-SPOKEN WORDS is an honest testimony by Raimundo Fagner on the delicate relationship between artist and the phonographic industry… love and hate, symbiosis needed in the past and transformed in the present thanks to the INTERNET, which lowered considerably the power of record companies. He has a combative personality but is extremely honest. Fagner exposes his version of events. AUDIO RETRATO – diogo nogueira REVERTING RHYTHMS is an analysis of changes that took place in the samba schools along the last few years, narrated by Diogo Nogueira, representative of the new elite of samba, formed within Portela, just like Paulinho da Viola. Financed by an illegal gambling game, the schools started being targeted by companies to sponsor them for marketing purposes, as soon as the parades started being broadcast globally on television. Good or bad, this impacted the spectacle in an irreversible way . AUDIO PORTRAIT – featuring Erasmo Carlos Considered one of the main movements in young music in the ‘70s, Jovem Guarda has always been accused of connivance with the Military Dictatorship. In BEHIND THE CURTAIN, Erasmo Carlos presents his version of events with impressive sincerity. In his statement, he portrays the youth of those days… he demystifies the portrait of a society with equal opportunities and clearly separates Brazilian Popular Music “Bossa Nova” from the other tendencies . AUDIO PORTRAIT – featuring DETONAUTAS From the murder of Netto, his band’s guitarist, OS DETONAUTAS, Tico Santa Cruz becomes a civil rights activist, questioning the omissive responsibility of governors in matters of corruption, urban violence and public accountability. IT’S ALL FREE is a chronicle of Brazil and the world in the 21st century, where the politician class’ shamelessness assures us the troubles remain the same, in a completely hypocritical report. AUDIO PORTRAIT – criolo CRIOLO is the result of the marginalized areas of São Paulo, which lives in a rough economic situation where the social gap is tremendous. It is rare that an artist who is born and who survives in these surroundings manages to flourish into the cultural scene’s mainstream. CRIOLO did… SIDE B is the testimony of what it’s like to be an artist in a marginalized area, where everything conspires against not only art but also against an entire generation due to the lack of opportunity. AUDIO PORTRAIT – roberto frejat GUITAR HEROES is a fascinating testimony about the history of the great guitarists who influenced him, from Mississipi until today, going through Woodstock and the counterculture of swinging London. It’s a lesson that unceremoniously shows the musical sophistication of his guitar… the riffs, the tendencies, the exponents… a parade of sounds that makes us understand a time that will never return, when the GUITAR HEROES influenced the behavior of an entire generation. AUDIO PORTRAIT – dinho ouro preto Dinho Ouro Preto, leader of the band CAPITAL INICIAL, is from a family of diplomats, born around power… CAPITAL INICIAL is a protest band… the more incisive protest songs came from groups from Brasília, most of them children of the elite in power. What’s the origin of this paradox of the “rock Brasília” generation, who denies its origin for political causes and flags for a new conscience of social costumes? AUDIO PORTRAIT – evandro mesquita In CHAOS GENERATION, Evandro Mesquita, vocalist and mentor of BLITZ (along with Patricia Travassos, Perfeito Fortuna, created the theater group Hoje É Dia de Rock, a fruit from Circo Voador), narrates, as a living witness of the PIER generation, the Ipanema dunes that served as base for the counterculture of the sixties… Rio de Janeiro’s own Portobelo Road AUDIO PORTRAIT – gabriel o pensador RAP SOCIAL CLUBE shows the origins of Gabriel o Pensador’s protest music. More than good-humored criticism against the system, his lyrics creation is based on a solid reflection and vast social work that is unknown to the public. The songs are a mirror reflection of his relationship with marginalized communities (like the Rocinha slum, for instance), or children’s literary work, which generate content for his criticism, be it in the ghettos or in the Brasília Congress. Double standard… impartial and unforgiving… AUDIO PORTRAIT – fernanda abreu In RIO’S FUNK, Fernanda Abreu talks about the origins, singularities and prejudices about the rhythm that was born in marginalized areas. A pioneer in the FUNK movement in Brazil (which is unrelated to the one currently developing in Rio’s marginalized areas), Fernanda was one of the first to dive into the activity created in the marginalized areas, living witness to how the rhythm broke the American pattern and took its own flight… Good or bad? AUDIO PORTRAIT – lenine LENINE is its own case in Brazilian popular Music… it’s not rock, it’s not baião, it’s not Bossa Nova, it’s everything… it’s a melting pot of all sounds together, from Luis Gonzaga’s Northeast to Led Zeppelin’s progressive rock. Born in the Northeast, raised in Rio de Janeiro, his music has enormous international repercussion, stemming from the mixture that combines everything harmonically. UNIVERSAL MUSIC is a program that shows how regional music reaches the world, without fear nor shame. AUDIO PORTRAIT featuring gilberto gil STORIES FROM EXILE is a report from Gilberto Gil from the time he was in London, from 1968 to 1971… Exiled from Brazil by the military dictatorship, Gil was evicted by force to Portobello Road, the scene of a unique cultural effervescence that influenced the entire production generated in those days. The biggest hits at the time and the versions of events… the history behind history... What was the London from the ‘70s like?
