BRASILINTIME (featuring:Cut Chemist,J.Rocc,Madlib,Babu)

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[Elano]

A Mochilla Film……. A documentary is a film that starts without a beginning or an end… Expecting documentary to deliver the truth is like watching a cooking show and expecting to feel full… Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 as a means to extend long distance telephone calls. He felt that if he could somehow amplify the signal that phone calls could be made over greater distances. In the process he invented the phongraph, through this he changed the way we hear and perform music. The full impact of this development is still being felt today. The first recorded Samba was written in 1917 by Donga and Mauro de Almeida it is called Pelo Telephone. Of course its status as the first Samba was disputed but it is unquestionably a pivotal recording. It reflected the inter-relationship between the telephone and its new sister invention the phonograph…… Any film about music in the modern post-phonographic era should begin with Coxone Dodd and Duke Reid or should it? To begin without acknowleging them would be meaningless… I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering… which is not the opposite of forgetting but rather its lining, we do not remember we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten, how can one remember thirst Los Angeles is a dead city… In 2000 some of Los Angeles’s most revered soul and jazz session drummers came together with some of the city’s greatest turntablists. The magic that happened during this first meeting is both homage and discovery, it was filmed and became the acclaimed short Keepintime: Talking Drums and Whispering Vinyl. You cant open new doors with old keys… Earl Palmer is the drummer on Dirty Old Bossa Nova by Howard Roberts as sampled by A Tribe Called Quest. Often what you stumble upon is better than what you’re looking for… Sao Paulo… the progressive face of our underdevelopement In September 2002 Coleman and B+ went to Sao Paulo for nine days. They had a week to link with (hip hop) Brasil, enlist three drummers and find enough breaks to make a break record to guarantee commitment from our oversubscribed DJs back home. A record hadn't been custom pressed to make a film since Wildstyle Is it possible that hiphop didn’t start in the US or Jamaica after all but in the challenge singing (cocos and emboladas) brought to the Brasilian NorthEast by the Africans from Angola and the Arab influenced Portuguese… How do you remember what cant be remembered… How do you rememeber thirst as Chris Marker asks… hiphop somehow does this…. In the Northeast (of Brasil), rhythm is God dehydrated… Paulinha Da Costa the Brasilian percussionist gave Michael Jackson “Mama se, mama sa, mama makossa” for “Don’t Stop Until you get Enough” the phrase was originally written and recorded by Manu Dibango. The Brasilian is always waiting for something good to happen… Joao Parahyba ‘s “Comanche” – the song named for him by Jorge Ben was interpolated by the Black Eyed Peas for “Fallin Up” Music is a dialectical memory game, it is history with a heart beat… In Sao Paulo a rotisserie oven is called a doggie television “Our originality is our hunger and our greatest misery is that this hunger is felt but not intellectually understood…” History is only bitter to those who expected it to be sugar coated. Look, my friend. I don't speak the language here, I've got no money, the food stinks, there's no rice, no beans. I'd rather be arrested in Brazil than stay in this dump of a country ….. The journey of Brasilian music to the US had begun with the success of Carmen Miranda and her band leader Dorival Caymi in the late 40s. This exchange reached a peak with the travel of Stan Getz and Cannonball Adderley to Brasil and the arrival of the early stars of Bossa Nova (Joao Gilberto, Sergio Mendes, Joao Donato) here. Bossa Nova itself was simultaneously an attempt to internationalize samba in a new way and respond to the cool jazz of Chet Baker and Stan Getz. When Jay Dee (Dilla) sampled Stan Getz and Gilberto in the early nineties for the The Pharcyde – he was participating in a conversation that went back to Carmen Miranda and beyond. “This guy can’t talk English at all and I can’t speak Portuguese, but we can talk when we scratch…” In Brasil the slang for dictionary is father of the dumb… How do records allow us to remember? Is sound closer to memory than vision…surely not closer than smell. However can you remember a smell or are you simply reminded of that experience vividly when you smell it again? The word batida in Portuguese can mean both beat and police raid. Sao Paulo… the graveyard of Samba… Cut Chemist left tour with Jurrassic 5 to go. Jrocc and Babu flew twenty four hours straight from Japan to get there. James Gadson turned down a tour with Beck to make it…. Madlib the most knowledgeable about Brasilian music among us (he had already done an entire album of Azymuth covers) was the easiest sell – he just didn't fully believe it was going down. Sometimes we didn't either. Rhythm is remembering… just don’t mess up the meter. We didn't speak the same language, even so we got to communicate, in spite of us to know each other through of negotiations, what does matter is that in the knots knew…