Amaro Freitas

Artist: Amaro Freitas
Song: Sangue Negro

Amaro Freitas is a friend, pianist and genious.  

He mixes jazz, afro jazz, samba and frevo in his amazing compositions.

Take a look and enjoy the music.

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Alan Watts

"If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

I am not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it, I want you to play with it. I want you to think of its possibilities, I am not trying to prove it. I am just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream, and that you could for example have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time, or any length of time you wanted to have.

And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure during your sleep. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each you would say “Well that was pretty great”. But now let’s have a surprise, let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it's gonna be.

And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say “Wow that was a close shave, wasn't it?”. Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further-out gambles what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.

That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have. Of playing that you weren't god, because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. The deep-down basic whatever there is. And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not." 

~ Alan Watts

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Samadhi

The word samadhi has been largely misunderstood. People think samadhi means some death-like situation. The word samadhi literally means sama and dhi – sama meaning equanimity and dhi meaning buddhi or the intellect. If you reach an equanimous state of intellect, it is known as samadhi.

The fundamental nature of the intellect is to discriminate – you are able to discriminate between a person and a tree only because your intellect is functioning. This discriminatory quality is very important for survival. If you want to break a stone, you have to discriminate between the stone and your finger. Otherwise you will break your finger. Discrimination is an instrument which supports and executes the instinct of survival present in every cell of the body.

If you transcend the intellect, you become equanimous. This does not mean you lose the ability to discriminate. If you lose the discriminatory intellect, you will become insane. In a samadhi state, your discriminatory intellect is perfectly in shape but at the same time you have transcended it. You are not making a distinction – you are simply here, seeing life in its true working. The moment you drop or transcend the intellect, discrimination cannot exist. Everything becomes one whole, which is the reality. A state like this gives you an experience of the oneness of the existence, the unification of everything that is.

In this state there is no time or space. Time and space is a creation of your mind. Once you transcend the mind as a limitation, time and space doesn’t exist for you. What is here is there, what is now is then. There is no past or future for you. Everything is here, in this moment.

The whole aspect of spirituality is to go beyond that discrimination and the survival instinct, which are meant only for the physicality of life. Samadhi is a state of equanimity where the intellect goes beyond its normal function of discrimination. This in turn, loosens one from his physical body. A space between what is you and your body is created.

~ Sadhguru 

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Kiko Loureiro

Artist: Kiko Loureiro

Song: Ray of Life

Loureiro began studying music and playing acoustic guitar at age 11. Inspired by artists like Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Randy Rhoads, he moved to the electric guitar at 13 and by 16 had already joined two bands, Legalize and A Chave, and was playing in nightclubs in São Paulo. At 19, he helped found Brazilian power metal band Angra, with whom he still plays.

Due to the increase in popularity of power metal, Loureiro has become quite successful, both playing in Angra and as a solo artist. He is known for his skill on the guitar, having written columns for and appeared on the cover of the magazines Cover Guitarra, Guitar & Bass, and Young Guitar.

In addition to his rock/metal achievements, Loureiro has also done the guitars on several eurobeat songs in collaboration with Dave Rodgers, including "Fevernova", "Ring of Fire" and "The Road is on Fire".

He speaks Japanese, French and English in addition to his native Portuguese.

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Milton Nascimento

Artist: Milton Nascimento
Song: Para Lennon e McCartney

Milton Nascimento (born 26 October, 1942) is a singer-songwriter who is considered one of the icons of Brazilian Music.

In the early stages of his career, Nascimento played in two samba groups, Evolussamba and Sambacana. In 1963, he moved to Belo Horizonte, where his friendship with Lô Borges led to the Clube da Esquina ("corner club") movement.

While his reputation within Brazil was firmly established with his Clube da Esquina works, Nascimento's international breakthrough came with his appearance on jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter's 1974 album Native Dancer. This led to widespread acclaim, and collaborations with stars such as Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, George Duke and Quincy Jones and the band Earth, Wind and Fire. Angelus (1994) features appearances by Pat Metheny, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Nana Vasconcelos, Jon Anderson, James Taylor, and Peter Gabriel. Through his friendship with guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, Nascimento came to work with the pop rock band Duran Duran in 1993. Nascimento co-wrote and performed the song "Breath After Breath", featured on the band's 1993 album Duran Duran.[5] He also performed with the band in concert when they toured in Brazil in support of that album.

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O Terço

One of the first progressive bands from Brazil, O Terço (meaning rosary beads) first formed in 1968, but didn't hit its stride until the mid '70s. Personnel changes would become part of the bands dynamic, with Sergio Hinds assuming the role of band anchor. The group owed a lot of its early sound to such Italian favorites as Locanda Delle Fate, Quella Veccia Locanda, and Premiata Forneria Marconi. They also manged to mix in other styles, like folk, and the most important: MPB(Brazilian Popular Music ), which made the band sound a little bit like Milton Nascimento, Tom Jobim and other great Brazilian artists.

On their first album, O Terço was not yet full on prog, but it is a seminal work in the history Brazilian progressive music. There are obvious influences of the Moody Blues, and Pink Floyd. "O Terço II" would see them moving from Psychedelic to heavier sounds, along the lines of King Crimson and Led Zeppelin. It was 1975's "Criaturas Da Noite" that became a monumental success. It was a big hit, gave Brazil its first classic prog album, and solidified O Terço's place in music history.

DEEZER: http://www.deezer.com/artist/241406
LAST FM: https://www.last.fm/music/O+Ter%C3%A7o
DISCOGRAPHY ON YOUTUBE:
O Terço - O têrço [1970]
O Terço - Terço [1973]
O Terço - Criaturas da Noite [1975]
O Terço ‎– Creatures Of Night [1977]
O Terço - Casa Encantada [1976]
O Terço - Mudança de Tempo [1978]
O Terço - Som Mais Puro [1982]
O Terço - O Terço [1990]
O Terço - Time Travellers [1992]
O Terço - Compositores [1996]
O Terço - Spiral Words [1998]
O Terço - Tributo a Raul Seixas [1999]

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On my life

Foto: Denmark, Christiania.

There are such moments in our life that we can't understand all.

There are moments that we are total lost. And here I am!

I'm Rodrigo Pinheiro, from Olinda, Brazil.

I'm 27 and now I'm feeling the whole weight of the world. This is my life:

~ broked, without any money on my account. (I have few, but just to pay debts.)

~ without job. (I have some projects and investments, but all this take a time to give me some real money)

~ my notebook is broken. (and I have no money to repair and I work with it also - social media, excel, projects, comunication, etc)

~ someone hit my car yesterday. (I working selling my shirts "TernoOlindaStyle" and producing events, so I fucking need my car)

~ I took a break from my University. (no degree yet)

~ A person that I love really deeply and I wish have something with her left me for while, because she is a little confused...

That is it! 

But it is not about sadness ou being upset, it is about to take a new direction for it all!

Let me try share with everybody how could I move on with this situation and transform all negative and hard moment in some beautiful and positive result.

What I gonna do from now:

~ First: excercise and meditation 3x on week.

~ Eat healthier.

~ Stop smoking.

~ Organize all my debts and incomes.

~ Focus on projects that will give me a quick return.

~ Take a breath for relationships.

~ Be closer to my family.

~ Set news goals to my life.

Those are my first statment for #mybiginnerchange

Peace my friends.

Bixiga 70

Dub, Jazz, Funk, Psychedelic and a lot of swing, this is how the things works for Bixiga 70.

Central São Paulo’s neighborhood called Bixiga is a melting pot of culture. Its Italian, African and North-Eastern population make it one of the best areas to eat out and listen to music. One of the place’s hidden treasures is the recording studio Traquitana, number 70 at Rua 13 de Maio – a street packed with venues and restaurants. That’s the birthplace of São Paulo’s finest new instrumental combo: Bixiga 70.

Coming from diverse musical backgrounds, a meeting of musicians involved in the city’s avantgarde pop, jazz, dub and Brazilian scenes, results in the 10-piece set, trying to blur boundaries in space and time. With their genre-spanning mix of afrobeat, Guinean malinké, Brazilian candomblé, samba and cumbia, Bixiga 70 are a welcome addition to any party. Taking Fela Kuti’s Afrika 70 band as a launchpad both in name and spirit, this ten piece band and their fusion of African and South American rhythms cause havoc in any dance.

LAST FM: http://www.last.fm/music/Bixiga+70

DEEZER: http://www.deezer.com/artist/4074705
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwQ0XQUcVuseBPnSXLhik5Q

We gonna be back soon!

Don't panic! We gonna be back soon!
Thanks!