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Seu Jorge · NPR Tiny Desk, Washington D.C. · 2010

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Live video · Latin · 2010s

Seu Jorge — NPR Tiny Desk, 2010

Why this recording

Filmed by NPR in September 2010, this Tiny Desk had never been posted to YouTube: the station found it while going back through its archives and put it online in August 2020, ten years later. Seu Jorge plays with Almaz, a band writer Jasmine Garsd describes as making him more versatile than before. She also notes how much he enjoyed playing seated right next to the office audience. Eighteen minutes documenting the Almaz period, less visible than his film roles.

Simon Janvier, live-sound professional and editor of the catalogue

Recorded on September 13, 2010 and unearthed from NPR’s archives for its YouTube release, this Tiny Desk Concert features Seu Jorge, the Brazilian singer and guitarist brought to an international audience by his role in Wes Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic,” where he covered David Bowie in Portuguese. Backed by his band Almaz, he performs a set steeped in samba, soul and MPB (Brazilian popular music), including reworkings of classics such as “Saudosa Bahia.” A son of a Rio de Janeiro favela, also revealed by the film “City of God,” Seu Jorge has a deep, raspy and deeply moving voice, able to tip a song from nostalgia into sensuality. In the stripped-down setting of Bob Boilen’s desk, this multi-song live capture reveals all the warmth of a major figure of the Brazilian scene. An essential filmed live concert for discovering the richness of Brazil’s popular music and one of its most soulful contemporary voices.

Personnel & credits

  • Seu Jorge — vocals, guitar

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