Jason Lyon Music

Tag: Bossa nova

  • Da-ba-da-ba-dah…

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    Never mind Baldwin’s superb yanqui lounge creep, I just love the beautifully done, inane, piss-take bossa. “You have my hand… it gives me the blues… in my heart…” Perfect Portubollocks. Also watch Maya Rudolph on shaker (and “da-ba-da-ba-dahs”) at 1:42. She knows the lines that are coming and starts losing it… The timing throughout is…

  • Word for the Day: Slatin

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    Every now and then someone coins a new word and I think it deserves to spread. I’d like to introduce you to the wonderfully descriptive term “slatin”, which comes courtesy of virtuoso percussionist João Bosco de Oliveira. Bosco will sometimes tell a little tale about one particular gig when he’d only recently arrived from Brasil in the ’80s…