You wouldn’t know it by how few times I’ve posted on here in the past year (solely due to what I can only describe as a “pandemic-exacerbated-PTSD-related Depressive funk”) but I’ve been buying as much if not more vinyl this whole time. I’m hoping that I finally shook off that funk and will be posting more regularly from here on out and sharing more of this music that’s just been piling up in my casita.
This month’s show is connected to some of those new additions, but is specifically focused on the grip of new (well, they’re all old dusties, but they’re new to me) Brasilian vinyl I’ve gotten at the Artform Studio and the Mr. Bongo & Craig Moerer Rappcats pop-ups. As I mention in the show, “Alegria,” the portuguese word for “Joy” was chosen as the mood, not only because tracking down great records makes me all kinds of happy, but also because when I find new Brasilian records that I haven’t heard or haven’t owned before I do a little shoulder shimmy and a specific part of Toni Tornado’s “Uma Vida,” where the chorus sings “Alegria!” plays in my head. I hope these songs bring you as much joy as they bring me.