| Baptista, Cyro / Love The Donkey |
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| Album: | Love The Donkey | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Baptista, Cyro | Added: | Oct 2006 | |
| Label: | Tzadik Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-10-22 | Pull Date: | 2006-12-24 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Dec 24 | Dec 17 | Dec 10 | Dec 3 | Nov 26 | Nov 19 | Nov 12 | Nov 5 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 01, 2019: | Global Ginga Rio De Jamaica | 4. | May 29, 2008: | The Courtesy Flush Olivia - Step On The Roach | |
| 2. | Feb 25, 2015: | 2-15-2015 Forró For All, Rio De Jamaica | 5. | May 28, 2008: | Baptism of Solitude American Constitution | |
| 3. | Dec 31, 2014: | 12-31-2014 Frevo De Rua, Immigrant Song | 6. | Dec 20, 2006: | Eran Mukamel f. Pung, chizzyti, Bunky & Squink (written word) Matan |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2006-10-16 | ||
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Baptista, Cyro – Love the Donkey (Tzadik) Reviewed by Sadie O., 10/16/06 Eclectic energetic percussion-driven music headed by brazilian-born percussion maestro. Most of it’s got a great syncopated beat, even if the beat doesn’t sit still long, but there are also elements of jazz and some definitely experimental sounds. Check this out! No FCCs. I know the world doesn’t REALLY need another cover of Immigrant Song, but track 10 really is the wildest… 1. **starts with a few seconds of muted bull roarers, then upbeat midtempo Carneval-parade type percussion. Several time changes, odd megaphone vocals. 2. ***interesting beaten-string instrument, somewhat uptempo and very energetic with lots of instrumentation and chorus. 3. ***Somewhat uptempo, energetic. Male vocals, mostly repetitive. Funky beat, nice horn section. Switches to midtempo reggae bubble exactly halfway through, keeps big Brazilian percussion and jazzy horns. 4. **Uptempo and upbeat. Male yelling and lots of percussion, a bit of goofy speeded up vocals. Jazzy horn solo. Switches to chaos for last several seconds. 5. ***Jazzy bass intro, lots of hand percussion (literally) – way cool, daddy-o! 6. ***Hendrixish guitar and drumline drums, then uptempo instrumental party romp. 7. **Kiddie squeals and blown bottlenecks. Wacky! Whoops and other odd instruments added in later. 8. **Flutes and big drums, some yelling. Another odd but cool track! 9. ****Buzzing noises, bells, cuicas – absolutely gonzo! Oh, there’s a digeridoo – makes sense! Lots of time signature changes. 10. *****Accordion-based café lament – YIKES! IMMIGRANT SONG! IT REALLY IS!!! HA HA HA HA HA!!! 11. *Coloratura violin for almost a minute and a half, then a folksy dance with not much bottom end. Bit of almost rap, and female spoken word in Brazilian. Nothing stays simple with these guys… 12. ***rubber band and shimmy koko bop, a bit uptempo and bit funky cool. Electric guitar and horns go well with rubber bands, somehow. Ah, nice cuica chorus… 13. **cacophony of odd spoken word, thrumming and tap dancing. 14. *Handclaps and hand drums and spoken percussion | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | American Constitution | 8. | Caboclinho | |||
| 2. | Anarriê | 9. | Matan | |||
| 3. | Rio De Jamaica | 10. | Immigrant Song | |||
| 4. | Forró For All | 11. | Maria Teresa | |||
| 5. | Tap On The Cajon | 12. | Olivia - Step On The Roach | |||
| 6. | Frevo De Rua | 13. | Movie Screen | |||
| 7. | Bottles | 14. | Pandeirada |