ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Célia - Celia - Mr. Bongo, 1970. 🇧🇷🗣️ 🎭🪦🫧: Celia, the other—Brazilian, Celia Cruz, a Pop Singer and personality in Brazil, released 4 self-titled albums. This recording was the first, from 1970. It has a great song list featuring many of Brazil's finest composers. The eponymous album titles are a Brazilian plague, you literally need to… Continue reading In The Stacks 6/13/26
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In The Stacks 5/24/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Bo$$ - Born Ganstaz - Def Jam, 1993. 🎤🪦: Bo$$ appeared on the Rap map in 1993, she was featured as a hard, female, gangster rapper. Her appearance was minimal and severe. She seemed to fit in using hard language and taking the Gangster Rap genre into a new market as a… Continue reading In The Stacks 5/24/26
In The Stacks 5/10/26
Overall = 2.7 (10) ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Vinicius Cantuaria - Psychedelic Rio - Sunnyside, 2024. 🇧🇷 😵💫 ⎄: I might describe this as Dreamy Brazilian Cowboy music rather than Psychedelic Rio. Perhaps the lyrics are the trippy part and I just don't understand Portuguese? The album has some creative guitar work and the songs create… Continue reading In The Stacks 5/10/26
In The Stacks 4/5/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Vinicius Cantuária- Sol Na Cara - Gramavision/Rykodisc, 1996. 🇧🇷 🗣️⎄🔌 🎸 👁️ 🌃 🌎🔮: A beautiful, drifting and languid, modern Brazilian recording. This was Mr. Cantuária’s first International album and he had released several albums in Brazil prior. There is a very subtle use of electronics that I love and he employs… Continue reading In The Stacks 4/5/26
In The Stacks 3/11/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix 🦴- Ancient to the Future (The Old New!) - New Icon Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop - Zomba, 1989. 🎤⚰️🏋🏽 ⚒️: Education. These songs all focus on teaching something: the history of Hip Hop; rewritten/overwritten Black History; the history of Boogie Down Productions; police violence - without… Continue reading In The Stacks 3/11/26