Label: Death Is Not The End

とてつもない審美眼で世界中から埋もれた名演を発掘しまくる[Death Is Not The End]!! 本作は"Musica caipira - ムジカ・カイピーラ" (ヒルビリー ミュージック) として知られる、貴重なブラジルのカントリーミュージックを纏め上げたV.Aカセットの第一弾。ブラジルの民俗学者コルネリオ・ピレスが残した最初期1920年代のコレクションから60年代までの楽曲を網羅、痛み、愛、喪失、裏切りの物語が自家製ギターの特殊チューニングで語られる、まさに超貴重な音源集となっています。









The first volume in a survey of a form of Brazilian country music known as música caipira ("hillbilly music") - a stripped-back forerunner to música sertaneja, the Brazilian equivalent to US country & western which in it's contemporary form has come to dominate the domestic music industry in recent decades. This collection covers some of the earliest recordings made by the pioneering folklorist Cornélio Pires at the end of the 1920s, through to records from the 30s, 40s & 50s and the beginning of the 60s.

Somewhat rooted in Portuguese troubadour folk traditions, música caipira is typically performed by a duo singing in parallel thirds and sixths, drawing upon a Portuguese-Brazilian style known as moda de viola - with the viola being the viola caipira, a Brazilian-style ten-string guitar that is the core instrument of the music. Born out of the "outback"-style region in north-eastern Brazil, these songs tell stories of pain, love, loss & betrayal - often backed by homemade guitars using invented tunings. Away from the polished pop country & western-stylings of the sertaneja, these recordings could be viewed as the Brazilian equivalent to the roots music of the American dustbowl or Appalachia.