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DoublePlusGood

Nov 10, 2022 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Lizbot

A tangy mélange of modern classical composition, rock in opposition, and songs of petition on a free-form mission

GAL COSTA TRIBUTE

A Tribute to Brazilian Tropicália’s legendary singer, GAL COSTA, who passed away Wednesday at the age of 77.

We’ll hear songs from her early career, making politically-tinged music with the other major players in the Tropicalismo Movement, as well as her experimental acid jazz influenced work, her soundtracks and collaborations.

We’ll also be hearing some new music and a soon-to-be released reissue from the recently reformed Heavenly!

5:03 PM		Gal Costa Meu Nome É Gal Gal Costa Gal Costa Philips 1969 BEGIN TRIBUTE TO ICONIC BRAZILIAN SNGER GAL COSTA, WHO PASSED AWAY ON NOVEMBER 9th AT THE AGE OF 77
5:06 PM		Gal Costa A Mulher Água Viva Universal Music Ltda. 1978
5:08 PM		Gal Costa Sebastiana Gal Costa Philips 1969 The first of two self-titled 1969 Gal Costa albums
5:10 PM		Gal Costa Saudosismo Gal Costa Philips 1969 My first Gal album was this one, which I proudly own on vinyl in an original Philips du Brasil pressing
5:13 PM		Gal Costa Deus é O Amor Gal Costa Philips 1969
5:16 PM		Gal Costa Não Identificado Gal Costa Philips 1969
5:20 PM		Gal Costa Lost in Paradise Gal Costa Philips 1969
5:23 PM		Gal Costa & Caetano Veloso Que Pena (Ele Já Não Gosta Mais de Mim) Gal Costa Universal Music Ltda. 1969
5:26 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- LIZBOT PAYS TRIBUTE TO GAL COSTA PLEDGE.WPRB.COM
5:31 PM		Gal Costa Objeto Sim, Objeto Nao Gal Costa Philips 1969 Acid jazz as hell. My favorite experimental Gal song. This is the 2nd self-titled 1969 album
5:36 PM		Gal Costa Cultura E Civilizacao Gal Costa Philips 1969
5:40 PM		Gal Costa Namorinho de Portão Gal Costa Philips 1969
5:42 PM		Gal Costa Vou Recomeçar Gal Costa Philips 1969
5:46 PM		Gal Costa Divino, Maravilhoso Gal Costa Philips 1969
5:50 PM		Gal Costa Cinema Olympia Gal Costa Philips 1969
5:53 PM		Gal Costa Se Voce Pensa Gal Costa Philips 1969
5:57 PM		Gal Costa A Coisa Mais Linda Que Existe Gilberto Gil Baby / A Coisa Mais Linda Que Existe / Saudosismo / Mamãe, Coragem Philips 1968
6:00 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Please consider supporting WPRB during this final week of our Fall Quiet Drive by visiting PLEDGE.WPRB.COM and making a donation. Thank you
6:05 PM		Gal Costa Milho Verde (Folclore Português) Zeca Afonso Índia Philips 1973
6:10 PM		Gal Costa India José Asunción Flores Índia Philips 1973 Written by Paraguayan composer and creator of the Guarania style of music, intended to highlight the Paraguayan people and characterized by slow and melancholic rhythms, José Asunción Flores
6:16 PM		Gal Costa Flor de Maracujá Caetano Veloso Cantar Philips 1974
6:19 PM		Gal Costa Barato Total Gilberto Gil Cantar Philips 1974
6:24 PM		Gal Costa Pontos De Luz Jards Macalé & Waly Dias Salomão Índia Philips 1973 Jards Macalé is an influential Brazilian Tropicalia movement composer, singer and actor from Rio. Waly Dias Salomão was a Brazilian poet from Gal Costa's native Bahia
6:26 PM		Gal Costa Passarinho Tuzé de Abreu Índia Universal Music Ltda. 1973
6:31 PM		Gal Costa Atimo de Som Arnaldo Antunes Gal Estratosférica Sony 2015 Written by Brazilian writer and composer Arnaldo Antunes, who founded the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s.
6:34 PM		Gal Costa Lua Lua Lua Lua Caetano Veloso Cantar Philips 1974 Caetano Veloso is one of the most influential Brazilian composers, singers, guitarists, writers, and political activists of all time, and an integral originator of the "Tropicalia" movement.
6:37 PM		Gal Costa Vou Buscar Você pra Mim Guilherme Arantes Gal Estratosférica Sony Music Entertainment 2015 written by Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist Guilherme Arantes
6:42 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot beeps & whirls and reminds you to visit pledge.wprb.com
6:48 PM		Gal Costa Flor do Cerrado Caetano Veloso & Antônio Carlos Jobim Cantar Philips 1974 Written by "Father of Bossa Nova" Antônio Carlos Jobim, one of the most influential Brazilian composers, pianists, guitarists, songwriters, arranges, and singers of all time. Jobim wrote The Girl From Ipanema, amongst other bossa nova standards. Collab with Caetano Veloso
6:51 PM		Gal Costa Por Baixo Gal Estratosférica Sony Music Entertainment 2015
6:54 PM		Gal Costa Relance Caetano Veloso, Pedro Novis Índia Philips 1973
6:59 PM		Gal Costa Bahia, Minha Preta O Sorriso Do Gato De Alice RCA Records Label 1993
7:04 PM		Gal Costa Rainha Do Mar Gal Canta Caymmi Philips 1976
7:06 PM		Gal Costa De Onde Vem o Baião Gilberto Gil Água Viva Universal 1978
7:09 PM		Gal Costa Você Me Deu Gal Estratosférica Sony Music Entertainment 2015
7:12 PM		Gal Costa O Bem Do Mar Dorival Caymmi Água Viva Philips 1978 Written by Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter Dorival Caymmi, from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Several of his samba pieces, such as "Samba da Minha Terra", "Doralice" and "Saudade da Bahia", have become staples of música popular brasileira.He composed about 100 songs in his lifetime, and many of his works are now considered to be Brazilian classics, including many ballads ballads celebrating the fishermen and women of Bahia.
7:17 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Rest In Peace, Gal Costa
7:17 PM		Gal Costa Baby Caetano Veloso Gal Costa Philips 1969 This is one of my FAVORITE SONGS OF ALL TIME. I love the Os Mutantes version too, but Gal's is BEST! "You know, it's time now to learn Portuguese It's time now to learn what I know And what I don't know/ Look here, read what I wrote on my shirt Baby, baby, I love you." R.I.P. GAL COSTA
7:21 PM		Ann Peebles I Can't Stand the Rain I Can't Stand the Rain London Records 1974
7:25 PM		Rotary Connection Sunshine of Your Love Songs Geffen 1969 Charles Stepney with the soaring vocals of the late Minnie Riperton!m Cream cover
7:29 PM		Rotary Connection Song for Everyman (feat. Minnie Riperton) Hey, Love Cadet Concept 1971
7:34 PM		Nina Simone Chilly Winds Don't Blow The Amazing Nina Simone Colpix 1959
7:38 PM		Wilson Pickett Hey Jude Lennon-McCartney Hey Jude Rhino Atlantic 1969 with Duane Allman on guitar
7:43 PM		The Temptations Law of the Land Masterpiece Tamla Motown 1973
7:47 PM		Bill Withers Who Is He (And What Is He to You?) Still Bill Columbia/Legacy 1972
7:51 PM		Clarence Carter The Road of Love She Ain't Gonna Do Right / The Road of Love Fame 1967 Allman on guitar
7:53 PM		King Curtis Games People Play Instant Groove Rhino Atlantic 1969
7:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot zips & zooms about the room
7:57 PM		Heavenly It's You Heavenly vs. Satan Sarah Records 1991 BEING REISSUSED TOMORROW - 11/11/22 in anticipation of Heavenly reforming and performing shows in London in 2023!!!
7:59 PM		Heavenly Lemonhead Boy Heavenly vs. Satan Sarah Records 1991

Chat is archived.

R.I.P. GAL COSTA

this horn section is great

Thank you for this tribute, Lizbot!

Hello Rob! I'm happy to do it, but so sad she's gone

We're sad too. Plus Mimi Parker of the band Low passed on Sunday or Monday

I wasn't feeling well and was thinking of getting a sub,...I have a very sore throat and am fatigued, but didn't test positive for COVId (had it recently, so I doubt it's that,) but when I heard she died I knew I had to go on air

So it's a sad week

@Rob - I know. Sad week. I may play some Low later in the program. The first 2 hours are gonna be all Gal, maybe a little past 2 hours. I figure a lotta DJs already paid tribute to Mimi, but I will probably play some Low tracks after 7 PM

Oh yikes, I'm sorry to hear that you are sore and fatigued. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery for you.

Yep. I heard a bunch of Low songs on KEXP earlier this week, including my favorite. Mind you, I'm not a big fan of Low, but I did see them once in the 90s

@Rob - Yeah, I am so annoyed because I got COVID for the first time at the end of September, just before I was scheduled to get the bi-covalent booster, and so I had to delay the booster, and I was going to get it this weekend in time for it to take full effect by Thanksgiving, BUT now I'm sick again and not so sure I should get booster while sick, even if it's not covid... Ugh

Last night Mike Lupica played Costa's "Negro Amor", which we really enjoyed. Might you be playing that song tonight?

Hello all! Squeezing in a few minutes of listening before I head out to my son't hockey practice. Hope you feel better LIz! Have a great night all!

@Rob - I don't have that one cued up, but might dig it up!

Hi Parrscream!

@Parrscream - Thank you! I am provably not going to talk a lot on mic tonight to rest my voice

That would be nice, Lizbot, but since you're not feeling your best, you need not dig it up

Understandable! Rest those vocal chords so you are good for next week! Have a great week!

Hello Parrscream

Hi Liz and the clan! WPRB is so great, so much music that I didn't know that I liked.

Hi Number 6! So glad to hear that!

@Parrscream - I'm not losing my voice...yet...but I feel like I have strep or tonsillitis. Like my throat is cut. Painful and swollen :(

Hello Number 6

Ouch, Lizbot

@Rob - I used to get strep often as a kid, but I haven't had it in my adult life much, but I remember so well how it feels!

I love this psychedelic intro

into this pretty string part

this one goes out to all the grasshoppers out there

Lizbot, yikes about the vaccine timing! My medical publishing wife looked up just now in her organization's Covid vax monograph and didn't see anything saying that you shouldn't not get the vax if you are feeling ok enough to go out. Maybe ask your doctor though?

...and to all the airplanes

@Rob - Yeah, I'm bummed. With all the other boosters, I got em as soon as I was eligible. This time I waited like 2 weeks and got friggin COVID, despite masking, so I think I got it in a crowd at an outdoor show.

@Rob - Good to know! Thank your wife from me for looking that up, please!

Some crap is going around. I kind of lost my appetite for a few days and some mild runs.

Not quite a grasshopper 🦗

I always get all of my shots. At 65, I can't be too careful.

@Lizbot, she says "you're welcome!"

There's a Grasshopper Rd. in the burbs.

@Number 6, I'm the same age with the same mindset

@Number 6, yikes!

@Rob - I guess my main hesitation is - even though this doesn't feel like when I had COVID in September (though I DID have a sore throat and fatigue as part of it, but other symptoms too,) - I know I could have symptoms for days and it be COVID before it shows as positive on a test, and I know we're told not to get the booster while having COVID, so I feel like maybe I should wait a few more days and test again before getting the booster, because I really want the booster to have max. efficacy

This one yeah. RIP Gal. She was soooo smooth.

Hi Brian!

@Number 6 - Yeah, I feel like a LOT of creeping crud is in circulation right now. My kid didn't feel so great last week

@Lizbot, I think that's the smart approach. Bummer about your T'giving though

Hi Brian!

I asked this last night but I can't remember who was in the chat vis a vis now. Did anybody wake up early to watch the eclipse on Tuesday morning before sunrise?

Yep. David Byrne totally turned me on to Tropicalismo via those Luaka Bop records in the late 80s early 90s

"Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical" was the main one I heard

@Number 6 - Even though I think Gal was singing about a Grasshopper airplane in Lost in the Paradise, I like to think she was singing to a little grasshopper in her hand because she sings so tenderly and affectionately in that song.

Faaar Out!

god I love this song's crazy intro and those when those horns come in

@Brian - Yeah, gotta hand it to David Byrne! I found that Os Mutantes first album on CD reissued by Luaka Bop in a certain defunct mainstream record store (Tower) and thus began my journey into Tropicalia

@ Rob F; I did not wake up "early", but being awake anyway at that hour, I went out and saw the blood moon.

Joni Mitchell goes Brazilian.:)

@Rob - Sadly I missed the eclipse, even though I had crappy sleep that night/early morning and had to be up by 6:30 am, so could've seen it. I saw quite a few photos of it on social media that morning, though!

@Rob - What time did the eclipse happen?

@Dave the Obscure - Hello!

Good evening, all.

I never tire of 'Objeto Sim, Objeto Nao' -- soooo fantastic!!! Does anyone else hear a similarity between Gal's and Blondie's voices? I have a friend who is a professional singer of Brazilian music whose 2 favorite female singers are in fact Gal Costa and Blondie and my sense is that that is no coincidence

Hi ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ!

Hi Ms Bot - sorry to hear about your throat condition. Hope it clears up soon.

Hi Teresa! Yeah, SUCH a great song! Huh, never thought about it, but I kinda hear a similarity now that you mention it...

Hi Wes!

Good evening DTO

@#6, hi.

Teresa, good to 'see' you again.

and to one and all!!!

@Wes - Yeah, I might need some antibiotics. I was having mysterious jaw pain on my left side a few days ago, and now this...mostly on my left side of my throat, like it's my left tonsil and it's swollen

Likewise {bats eyelashes flirtatiously}

My throat hurts when I talk (and when I don't) but I had to bring the Gal when I heard the news yesterday

Wholly shit... imma late for gal tribute

Just popping in as the phone charges and the laundry agitates…

Hi Jimboooo!

Your royal Bot-ness💥💥💥

@jimboo - The important thing is - you're here now!

@Wes - stop agitating yr laundry. What did it ever do to you except maybe static shock?

INDEED WOW THESE SONGS. Excited for this! I’ve only ever heard a few Gal tunes…

@Dave T, yay!

Hello Guelo! Glad you're digging it!

@Lizbot, the totality ended at sunrise, which was roughly 6:40/6:45 am. So you had a fully eclipsed moon sinking in the west while the sun brightened the sky in the east. I did not get up to see it, because our view to the west blocked by buildings. And I didn't sleep all that well.

I love her "WA!" just before the chorus!

@Rob - Oh my god, I was even awake and up then! D'oh! I wish I'd gone outside. I was groggily corralling my teen to get ready for school

Gal Gosta died !?

It was an incredible view.The sunrise kind of stole the red color from the moon from where I was…

Hi Mika - Sadly, yes. Suddenly, yesterday, at the age of 77. She had a tour planned for the next few months :(

@Guelo - The photos I saw of it were incredible!

Also don't know much Gal Costa and am exited about the set!

Hi Stephen! Glad to hear it!

Do you know about the Tropicalia movement and the Manifesto Antropófago?

@Stephen - The first album I ever bought from an artist in the Brazilian Tropicalia music/political movement Gal was a founding member of was at your old employer, Tower, when I bought a reissue of the first Os Mutantes album there in the mid-90s. Then I got Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethania, Nara Leao, et.al. shortly thereafter in various stores, a bunch abroad

Hi Mikachu! yes! WPRB screened a doc about Tropicalia years ago at the Princeton Public Library, but I got into it in my 20s in the 90s and even tried to learned Portuguese..ha, it didn't take!

Cool! There is this one quote from the Manifesto Antropófago (or the 'cultural cannibalism manifesto' in English) that sticks with me: "Tupi or not Tupi" which is ripping off Shakespeare of course- but also is a reference to aboriginal Tupi people, meaning something like "how do we embrace our aboriginal heritage as Brazilians" - all of which is likely problematic in how we discuss culture and race in the US at the moment - but mind this is from 1960's Brasil

@Mikachu - A catchy and memorable but also legit message! I love that they called it to the cultural cannibalism manifesto

Such a good show! Thank you for this :)

@Mikachu - That quote reminds me of the musical movement founded in Paraguay by Zeco Afonso, who wrote that Milho Verde song Gal sang that I played in the previous set. Zeco founded the Guarania style of Paraguayan music to incorporate and honor his native Paraguayan Guaraní roots. I learned about him from my best friend in college who grew up in Paraguay and gave me a great of poems by Guarani poet Jose Appleyard

@Richard - Hello! Thank you so much!

To 'PRB or not to 'PRB!

This bass!

@Number 6 - Ha! ALWAYS to PRB!

*retuning speaker levels* every song is a universe keeps getting better

@Guelo - I love Gal so much! Glad you're enjoying!

Evening Liz, awesome festive songs of Gal Costa!

Hello Ossy! Thanks! Glad you're here with us!

Good evening, this is excellent 💙

Hello TAndy! Thanks!

Can you link the band mentioned?

That's Caetano Veloso's voice coming in now

@Guelo - the band was Aguilar e Banda Performática, founded by Arnaldo Antunes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaldo_Antunes

I love how chip-tune-y this album is!

Loving this show! I’m partial to this album

Hi George! Thx! Yeah, Estratosférica rules!

cue that sweet bass

eyyy yeah heard this one what a jaunty jam bass so good. Taandyyy

Crushed to hear of Gal Costa's passing, but after a hard day of work I can't tell you how much brighter hearing my favorite music made my day. Many thanks Lizbot <3

This jam is nutty💥💥💥

@Guelo - Jaunty indeed! Jaunty haunches!

@Lachlan Herrick - I'm so glad you're enjoying it. She was truly amazing

@jimboo - I know, right?! Índia is a great album

Reminds me one summer of Readie playing festive music like this!

Oh, nice! 'Gal Canta Caymmi' was the album that introduced Gal Costa to me <3

@Ossy - Love Readie!

@Teresa - Nice! A great one!

She's so recherche silly cool, especially on Halloween eve!

Feeling 90s Selena from all this!

@Ossy - Truth! Readie & Bot will be reunited (and it feels so good!) in the spring for the spring drive I'm sure!

Thank you so much for doing this, especially going career-wide with it. 2+ hours of non-stop, tinkered-with pleasure. My own collection is stuck in the early '70s. So much to add.

@J. Heartonastick - I'm so happy you're enjoying the show. Yes, I was so pleased when I expanded my collection of her music into the later decades and found so many gems!

Cute Liz and smells like spring already nearing! 🌳🌸

Peach and Herb, both natural smelly good stuff!

@Ossy - I hope! I will try to channel spring in the next few cold dark months!

So today I learned that the version of this song I hear frequently is a cover

Hi Lizbot, hi all. Geez, just looking at the playlist and my first take of it was that the playlist had a skip. Anyway happy trails Gal Costa.

MINNIE!!!! Damn, those soaring Minnie Riperton vocals get me every time!

@TAndy - Pete Brown wrote it but Cream made it famous

So that's where Missy Elliot got inspired from, Ann Peebles I Can't Stand the Rain!

Veloso tells an interesting story in one of the two Tropicalia era memoirs in which Gal and he and Gil were sitting at an outdoor cafe and some rep from the official media came over to the table and inquired what they were working on creatively. Gal said she was practicing a new song 'Baby' and, at the urging of said official, she sang a few lines a cappella. This so angered the official -- he found the song so offensive -- that he slapped her across the face! It really struck a nerve with him!

Hi Rofflestomp !

@Teresa, wow! That's way too much audience participation.

Indeed!

@Teresa - Oh my god! Crazy! I need to read that memoir! Which one?

Thanks for playing the Gal Costa tonight, @Lizbot!

I think it's this one: 'Tropical Truth' https://a.co/d/4eCQ8et

@Rob - Thanks for listening, Rob!

@Teresa - Thanks! I gotta add that to my reading list!

YES

Love this song! I mean I love the rest of the soul set, but I don’t hear you put this one on as much

That line!!

And this one!!

Experimental acid jazz is so going on a T-shirt!

Veloso is a really eccentric but affecting writer! He really made you feel the emotions of that heady but turbulent period with a rare immediacy. It's my favorite musician's memoir.

@George - I'm happy you heard it!

Hows the hip George? I would be finding all the metal detectors in the city and have a field day...

Thanks for opening up my musical horizons a bit more!

Thank you for the show, Lizbot!

Great Gal Costa tribute and butter rnb motown, Liz!

Yes, thank you so much for this gem of a show, Lizbot! Such a treat!!! <3

Stay well and safe everyone. Thanks Liz! BCNU.

Thanks for hanging, everyone! See you next Thursday!

@Roffle - he's healing slowly but surely! Thanks for asking!

✌️

Good evening LizBot! I hope you feel better soon.

Thanks, Wes!