radio #02: Garimpo festival edition

Here you can listen to some bands that played at the Garimpo Festival in its first edition. You can read more about this festival here (portuguese only).

1. Terminal Guadalupe - Pernambuco chorou [00:00 / 03:36]
2. Montage - Raio de fogo [03:36 / 07:43]
3. Monno - Agora [07:42 / 11:23]
4. Lucy and the Popsonics - Coração empacotado [11:22 / 13:28]
5. UDR - Bonde da orgia de travecos [13:28 / 17:29]
6. Wander Wildner - Eu tenho uma camiseta escrita eu te amo [17:28 / 20:49]
7. The Dead Lover's Twisted Heart - Hey babe (have you ever been in hell) [20:44 / 22:40]
8. Macaco Bong - Bananas for you all [22:38 / 30:59]

You can also download these songs.

radio #01

I didn't liked the idea of making a podcast (i think it's more a hype than useful), so I've made this setlist on imeem with some wonderful songs released by brazilian bands in this year.

If you're logged in imeem (i think) you can listen to the full tracks. If you're not, I guess you'll listen just a preview of them.

download > Pin Ups: Bruce Lee, Lee Marvin, Jodie Foster

Pin Ups was one of the most important bands in Brazil through the 90's. Their sound was influenced by punk, guitar noise and grunge, and the albuns available here are part of their "cinematographic trilogy": Jodie Foster (1995), Lee Marvin (1997) and Bruce Lee (1999), last record of the band.

Jodie Foster is more punk and grunge; Lee Marvin shows a band doing loud and noisy indie rock; and Bruce Lee brings two new songs recorded at studio and a live semi-acoustic show, featuring songs from all the times of their career and covers of groups like Kraftwerk and Beatles.

Enjoy.

From left to right: Jodie Foster (1995), Lee Marvin (1997) e Bruce Lee (1999).
Click over the images to download.

Listen to "Fast Cars", from the album Lee Marvin.

interview: Wry

Interview with Mário Bross, guitarist and lead singer of Wry, Sorocaba's band living in London since 2002. This interview was made by email at 10 of may of 2005 for a college project and published at Mazzacane.

Wry let some songs available for download on it's official site. What are the advantages and disadvantages of it?

It makes possible that more people get in contact with your songs. And you can use internet to release b-sides, live recordings, remixes, etc.
We intend to sell our single via internet by a fair price, soon.
The only disadvantage we see on it, is if someone hear the song, don't like and don't to buy/listen anything else from the band.
But, in a generic view, authorized music on internet only brings advantages, without any doubts.

How are major record labels reacting in Europe to these "illegal" downloads? Like when a band's cd is available at web even before it get a "physical" release, like happened to Oasis's and Weezer's last albums.

There aren't many things you can do about it, this usually happens because someone close to the band put these songs on the internet. And, sometimes, it's just marketing, to make the band to appear at the news, etc, before the album is released. The Subways, a band which is gonna explode and is close to us, had their album stolen too, everything was at Josh's (drummer) laptop. It got the internet but they didn't care so much about it.
So, there aren't many options. The money spent trying to get the criminal computer is worse than sell a few cds less.

Do you believe bands like Franz Ferdinand and The Killers would be so famous as they're today without the use of peer-to-peer and sites like Rapidshare?

Maybe people didn't know how to sing all the songs when these bands got on tour. In these mentioned cases, image and that big hit should travel through all the world even without internet. They would be famous anyway, that's what I think.
But, if you think about a band a little more alternative, like Bloc Party or Kaiser Chiefs, I agree with your point of view. Before their albums were released and lots of people all over the world know their songs, djs are playing them, from São Paulo to Tokyo. Internet is evolution, it's the future.
There's no way to negate that it is good for all the bands, understand?

Today, is it crucial for indie bands to put their songs on the internet, available for download?

Of course, you have to be part of it or you'll be left behind. I can see, five years from now, all this technological evolution will triplicate. As they say on the Bible "you cannot buy or sell if you do not have an email"... or something like that. So, it's essential and it's easier than it was a few years ago.

Does the traditional copyright law work with Wry's songs? Had you ever win money with reproduction, execution or any other use of your songs, as these laws pretend to do?

Some of our songs play daily, even three times a day, at some radio stations (in Brazil), for more than 50 cities, and we haven't see the money, never never, not a single cent in our banks counts.
But i guess it happens because we're from underground and we don't have a big manager involved with our work.
I have friends, from others bands, that say this works, slowly, but works. I would like to see it working to Wry too, but, by now nothing is happening. We'll see how this year will be, we think everything will be "in deep blue". By the grace of god!

Wry - jesus beggar

photos: studioeleven

interview: Cansei de Ser Sexy

This interview was made with Ana Rezende, guitarist of Cansei de Ser Sexy, a.k.a CSS, by email at 09-05-2005, for an article about Creative Commons, copyright and the relationship of indie bands with internet.

Releasing your songs only through the internet was a conceptual choice or just a way to save money?

Neither. It was the easiest way to make people listen to our sound. At that time, we didn't think about make a album, but, when it got serious, we started to make our record (which is almost complete), with different versions of the songs that are online.

We think it's important to put it on internet and we intend to stay doing it.

Comercial radio stations (on Brazil) are almost unreachable for indie rock bands. Does it make internet the major way of spreading indie rock music?

Yes. We have friends that play in indie rock bands and they all spread their work at web. It's the best, fastest and more democratic way to spread your work.

Do you think the internet is an anarchic place, when we think about copyright? Or do you think copyright can still functioning at the virtul world?

If we knew it, we would be rich!

Peer-to-peer programs, like Kazaa and eMule, allow anyone to download for free any song they want, so they don't need to buy cds.
Do you believe we are going into a new age in which bands will live only with the money of their shows?

Yes. People need to realize that it's a positive thing. We've signed with Trama, we're gonna make an album, but we recognize the importance of peer-to-peer.
We all (in the band) have a musical knowledge because we use peer-to-peer, we download lots of songs. And we all know that Cansei de Ser Sexy is getting famous because of it (downloading).
We think there is a new order, more democratic in the industry, which is very good, because music isn't dominated anymore by three or four majors record labels.

Do you know about Copyleft and Creative Commons? Have you ever thought about releasing your songs under these licenses, as a way to stimulate the cultural production and help your songs to get a bigger public (in case of your songs got used in movies, samples, etc) ?

We don't know about those things.


Cansei de Ser Sexy - superafim

photos: flickr of Cansei de Ser Sexy and Adriano