Brazil as a life force of worldwide musical domination. The waves of its influence (Bossanova and Rio Funk, Samba and Tropicalia, Os Mutantes and CSS engulf every imaginable coast from David Byrne to MIA.

Saturday 7th / 22:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)

Sunday 8th / 16:15 / Rex

(*) Presentation & Q&A with Guto Barra

Some countries export wine, others export cars, others statuettes. Brazil exports music, and it's worth remembering that it exports the most heterogeneous, distorted, lively and intense music on the planet. Beyond Ipanema gives us Brazil as a life force of worldwide musical domination. It's hardly surprising then, as Gilberto Gil says in this film, that world music increasingly seems to resemble Brazilian music, with all its "complexity, immediacy, fragmentation and variety". The unstoppable growth of its supremacy began in 1945, with the fascinating and influential Carmen Miranda, and hasn't ceased to this day. Since then, the waves of its global influence have adopted all kinds of forms: from the Bossanova that propelled the Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd mega hits of the 50's, as well as - of course - "The girl from Ipanema" by Astrud Gilberto, right up to the successful film Black Orpheus, and from there to contemporary Rio Funk, from Samba to Tropicalia, a genealogy that unites artists as diverse as Os Mutantes, CSS, Tom Zé, Marcos Valle, Sergio Méndez & Brazil 66 or Roberto Menescal. Beyond Ipanema also demonstrates how these waves have in turn engulfed artists as famous as David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, MIA or Devendra Banhart.
 
GUTO BARRA is a Brazilian who immigrated to New York in the 90's. His most highly acclaimed previous work was Clash of Cultures, about the electronic music scene in New York.