SOUNDTRACK: APANHADOR SÓ-“Prédio” (Field Recordings, May 13, 2015).
Apanhador Só is from Brazil. At the beginning of the video you see the guys in the band gathering…junk. Childen’s toys boxes of refuse and homemade instruments.
The video starts and the singer explains that Prédio means building. He says the song is about a different vision of life, a different perspective. As it pans back we see that the only conventional instruments are a floor tom and a guitar. And all kinds of weird other things.
In this video, shot during SXSW in Austin (2015), its members coax rhythms and beats from a trunkload of found items, including a children’s bicycle and other playthings. The resulting performance of “Prédio” is the stuff of hip-swaying joy.
The song starts with one of them tapping a bicycle bell. Soon he starts keeping time by spinning the wheel and clacking the spokes. Then he switches to a jug of some kind that changes the sound as he uncovers the opening.
There’s even a kazoo solo.
Near the end of the song, there’s wonderful breakdown where you can see then hitting and kicking everything at their feet-all kinds of junk that makes a cool cacophony. The song is really catchy and lovely, although I admit I was more focused on what they were playing more than what they were playing. (The items rather than the melody).
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This was the funniest , most enjoyable thing I’ve ever read by Robert Coover. Probably because it is so base and straightforward, it transcended some of his usual stylistic things.
A Senator from Texas is in bed with two women–the Secretary of the Interior (whom he calls the Secretary of the Posterior) and his intern–when he gets the news that Martians have landed in his home state.
He greets them warmly with Southern hospitality, but they don’t seem to speak any civilized languages. They also don’t have any papers. As the Senator was explaining this to them, they shot him. (more…)
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