Águas de março (Waters of March) Analysis
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2023
- My favorite song in the word is Águas de março (Waters of March) by Tom Jobim (Antonio Carlos Jobim). I talk about some of my history with the song online as well as what I think makes the song so special. You don't need to understand music theory for this explanation because I'll break it down in this video.
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You need to watch the documentary "Elis e Tom" about the behind-the-scenes recording of the album of the same name, which is a masterpiece of Brazilian music. Scenes from the time showing the creative process of these two geniuses, including the recording of "Águas de Março". It is showing in Brazilian cinemas and is Brazil's pre-candidate in the "documentary" category for the Oscar.
I've heard such great things. I hope there's an English version that comes out in the United States soon.
That's exactly what I was going to write. It is now on in São Paulo.
Always “descending” like the rain. Tom was a freaking genius.
The rule is clear: if a gringo talks about Brazil we give him engagement. If he says bad things, we give him a Vampetaço. If he says good things, we give him glory.
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This is dangerous. Vampetaço can make people sick.
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"The rule is clear" hahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!
I love the Milton Banana Trio! One of my favorite tunes from them is "Nôa Nôa", written by Sergio Mendes. I've been listening to that tune constantly for 20+ years, and each time I hear it, I discover new little pleasures hidden in the recording! An amazing 2-minute-long auditory masterpiece!
still learning things I never imagined about my own country's music because of you! thanks for that
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Very cool! 😊
The dominant seventh reminded me of traditional northeastern songs like Asa Branca ❤
Love this song a lot too. Seemingly so simple but genius.
David, your channel is one of the best music channels all over UA-cam! I'm your fan.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
My Born in Rio Heart feels so good in seeing people enjoying my hometown cultura abroad ❤
Even for us portuguese we love and cherish the richness and beauty of brasilien music🌸
Music connects and bring all the good in us humble humans.
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Olá, como vai? Você já ouviu “Sabiá”, de Tom Jobim e Chico Buarque, interpretada por Carminho?
Hello how are you? Have you ever heard “Song of Sabiá”, by Tom Jobim and Chico Buarque, performed by Carminho?
Ahhhh… que emocionante ouvir você elogiar nossa língua e nossa música. Nossa cultura é riquíssima. Gratidão ❤
This is great! This song gets me in the heart ever since i first heard it by Getz and Regina in the mid 70s. You have nailed it. I, too, am a Brazilian Gringo!
Amazing music, amazing lyrics. The promise of spring for a Brazilian living in NJ is amazing ❤😅
I have loved this song for years and your analysis has catalyzed a tsunami of feelings and thoughts. Muito Obrigado🙏. Absolutely beautiful!
Just when I am despondent about the current state of affairs in the world , out of nowhere, comes another human and strikes a chord that restores some faith. Thank you!🙏
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David, I love your content! I am a lover of music, I am Brazilian and live in Texas. You might be interested to know that Jobim’s grandson, Daniel Jobim, is currently on tour in the US with the also internationally famous Seu Jorge! I couldn’t go to their concert in Houston last week, but hear it was great and there was a lot of Tom Jobim songs!
There were*
Thank you! I've heard great things as well.
My favorite song as well. Poetry set to music.
Amazing ❤ As a life long Elis Regina fan, I also think this is the best version of the song
I loved your review!~
The Sergio Mendez version is my morning wakeup song... a modal/chromatic masterpiece, and absolutely one of my favorite songs that combines such beauty and complexity that anyone can relate to. Also, most Westerners - at least in the U.S. - are well versed in Brazilian rhythms courtesy of Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas! Everything he wrote had the coolest latin/jazz influences. Thanks for the analysis!
You know...this is a question I've always wanted to ask. I have a lot of Brazilian followers on Instagram and get a lot of recommendations for Brazilian artists. But I almost never see anyone ask for Sergio Mendez and I've wondered why.
@@DavidAsherBrown Probably due to him being a Brazilian artist who found his niche/fame in North America. I'm sure you know that Herb Alpert was responsible for introducing him to the West, and that Alpert's wife was Sergio's favorite go-to singer. And his New Brazil series were targeted to English listeners. I never heard of Mendez until the 1980's and just stumbled upon Waters of March about a month ago. Meanwhile, my wife - who is Ecuadorian - grew up listening to the original Brazilian version and had no clue who Mendez was until last month! Live, listen, and learn! It's a killer song, no matter the version.
Sir.. I Feel the same way about this song! ❤❤❤❤❤ Thank You
Wonderful! Thank you!
Wow! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!
Love to listen you talking about music!
Você é incrível!
David, Muito Obrigado!
I'm brazilian and I love this song.
I loved your analysis, great job!
Thank you!
It's really beautiful and inspiring to see your love for music in every single one of your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion with us. (and I would love to see you talking about "Sinal Fechado", from the great Paulinho da Viola. )
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Fantastic 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nice job! You talked through this really well, especially the bass line which is so important! 👍🏽
Thank you!
OBRIGADO !!!! Wonderful to find you here on UA-cam!! Know you on IG for a long time too!! Always enjoy learning from you and sharing music that is so very near and dear to my heart as well.
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Love your channel... that song was also a personal favorite (because of my birthday month)
Thank you!
An articulate analysis informed by an enthusiastic, deep love of the music...Thanks!
Thank you!
Hi
Thx for the Video
Its also my favorite song
I sang it all the time the year I was volunteering in a monastery and also to a portuguese friend. And he was in a potuguese radio show now to share about his experience in the place and wished for aguas de marco to play❤
Amazing vídeo 🎉 greetings from Brazil ❤
Thank you! 😃
Thanks!
David I just discover your channel . musically amazing
Thank you!
Re: uptake of Brazilian music by US jazz musicians (apart from bossa nova)...check out Wayne Shorter Native Dancer, or Pat Metheny, or more recently Esperanza Spalding...they all love Milton Nasciemento !
Esperanza Spalding played with Milton on his last, his farewell tour through Boston. She looked she was having a blast. "I'm playing with Milton!!!"
C/Bb - Am6 - Fm6/Ab - C6/G - Gb7(#11) - FMaj7 - Fm6 - ll: C69/G - Gm7(9)/C - F#m7b5 - Fm6 :ll ....... Love this song and until today I need to read the chord progression to keep track as he does some variations with the same music intention, genius Jobim! Thank you for one more great video David!
My favorite version of this song is the live one Elis Regina did on a TV special, just so great.
It is much slower, and therefore very meditative
"Les Eaux de Mars" the french version Georges Moustaki, mars is also the planet and makes the song more mystical :-)
Amazing video, David! I'm a huge fan of your content! As someone that lives in São Paulo, yeah, march is the last month when it rains more. At least that's how it's tecnically supposed to go, São Paulo is famous for having kind of unpredictable weather (our joke is that it is one of the few places where you can experience all four seasons in a day, many days a year). By the way, you don't need to feel insecure at all with your portuguese pronunciation, it's very easy to understand the words you are saying, I've taught a little bit of portuguese for foreigners and I would have been so happy if any of my former students were able to mimic the sounds as well as you do! Let me know if you need any voice memos!
Thank you for your kind words and that insight!
Listening to João Gilberto's versions of this tune, (especially the very stripped-down 1973 version), he plays some very strange inversions of the chords over some very strange bass notes. Absolutely masterful, but almost impossible to duplicate.
So cool the fact that you tried to sing it in Portuguese! It sounded very good man! Really shows the passion you have for the song. Congrats 👏
Thank you!
Ivan Lins is an amazing songwriter and melodicist. You'd probably get a kick out of his records. Try 'A Noite' for example, it has some pretty killer composition work in there.
I watched the duet with Tom and Elis sharing the mic with their playful movements along with the song-thanks, David, for that suggestion. I enjoyed what you explained about the 3rd inversion dominant 7th resolving downwards with the bass. It’s a terrific song. By the way I’m seeing Choro Das 3 this weekend. Their first US tour since the pandemic and loss of their father and percussionist. If I remember right it’s my fourth time to hear them live.
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Are you fond of lists? In 2000 a poll was conducted on the 31 greatest Brazilian songs of the XX Century. "The" greatest song and another 30 (hence the weird number). This was the controversial final result:
Campeã: Aquarela do Brasil
1: “Carinhoso” (Pixinguinha e João de Barro)
2: “Garota de Ipanema” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Vinícius de Moraes)
3: “Asa branca” (Luiz Gonzaga e Humberto Teixeira)
4: “Águas de março” (Antônio Carlos Jobim)
5: “Chega de saudade” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Vinícius de Moraes)
6: “As rosas não falam” (Cartola)
7: “Travessia” (Milton Nascimento e Fernando Brant)
8: “Desafinado” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Newton Mendonça)
9: “Eu sei que vou te amar” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Vinícius de Moraes)
10: “Chão de estrelas” (Orestes Barbosa e Sílvio Caldas)
11: “Se todos fossem iguais a você” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Vinícius de Moraes)
12: “Luar do sertão” (Catulo da Paixão Cearense)
13: “Samba do avião” (Antônio Carlos Jobim)
14: “Brasileirinho” (Waldir Azevedo)
15: “Retrato em branco e preto” (Antônio Carlos Jobim e Chico Buarque)
16: “O que será” (Chico Buarque de Holanda)
17: “Saudade da Bahia” (Dorival Caymmi)
18: “Manhã de carnaval (Luiz Bonfá e Antônio Maria)
19: “No rancho fundo” (Ary Barroso e Lamartine Babo)
20: “O bêbado e o equilibrista” (João Bôsco e Aldir Blanc)
21: “Tico-tico no fubá” (Zequinha de Abreu)
22: “Feitiço da Vila” (Noel Rosa e Vadico)
23: “Feitiço de oração” (Noel Rosa e Vadico)
24: “Marina” (Dorival Caymmi)
25: “A noite do meu bem” (Dolores Duran)
26: “Foi um rio que passou em minha vida” (Paulinho da Viola)
27: “Aquele abraço” (Gilberto Gil)
28: “Sampa” (Caetano Veloso)
29: “Detalhes” (Roberto Carlos e Erasmo Carlos)
30: “Meu bem querer” (Djavan)
Back in the 1970s, Tom Jobim was asked to tell 10 songs worth a maximum grade. His personal list was:
1) CARINHOSO, de Pixinguinha e João de Barro
2) NA BAIXA DO SAPATEIRO, de Ary Barroso;
3) SAIA DO MEU CAMINHO, de Custódio Mesquita e Evaldo Rui;
4) MULHER, de Custódio Mesquita e Saidi Cabral;
5) SONHEI QUE ESTAVAS TÃO LINDA, de Francisco Matoso e Lamartine Babo;
6) FEITIO DE ORAÇÃO, de Vadico e Noel Rosa;
7) ATÉ PENSEI, de Chico Buarque;
8) PRA DIZER ADEUS, de Edu Lobo e Torquato Neto;
9) CORAÇÃO VAGABUNDO, de Caetano Veloso;
10) ACALANTO, de Dorival Caymmi
These may be two intersting lists for anyone approaching Brazilian music
Carinhoso is a great song.
Doing that at 7:23 sends anyone shivers down their spine. Little miracles of nature.
I read years ago that Ray Gilbert, the English lyricist Jobim worked with for many years, did the FIRST translation of this into English - and Jobim hated it, lol. So he went back and wrote another one himself (the one you are referencing). Pretty funny, eh? Also, although Elis and Tom seem to be getting along great, some accounts say Elis thought of Tom as an out-of-touch grandfather who needed to be more modern. Certainly the gorgeous, modern music Elis was working on with Nascimento when she died shows she was indeed exploring music that was a modern extension of the traditional.
One more thing: One thing to watch with Jobim is the MELODY note compared to the bass. Jobim often juggles non-chord tomes (chord extensions or alterations) in the melody with chord tones to create tension, then "relaxation.". In this case, the first note of the melody is B over the G7/F (if the song is in C) which is a TRITONE, one of the most unstable notes in Western Music. So the melody starts with tension - which is coupled with the lyrics which provide suspense. Very thoughtful, meditative writing. We can learn a lot from Jobim.
Thanks for this insight!
Of course. I wish I had time to find the source on the Jobim / Regina dynamic, but I'm sure you can find it. Thanks for your good work. @@DavidAsherBrown
Great video! Congratulations on your Portuguese pronunciation!
Thank you! 😃
uma das melhores versões dessa musica e a do submarino 2021 xequerouti
I would be thrilled to hear your analysis on Os Argonautas; personally, the version sung by Carla Pires is my favourite. There seems to be greater significance behind those words; I am a native Spanish speaker, and yet I feel I cannot quite grasp the deeper meaning of the lyrics.
Recentemente entrou em cartaz nos cinemas aqui do Brasil o filme Elis e Tom, sobre o disco que eles gravaram juntos. O filme é ótimo. Você devia assistir.
Você precisa ouvir o músico Dominguinhos e conhecer a incrível obra dele.
True!
Se puser Dominguinhos e Yamandu o cara pira. Mas já deve ter pirado com o Egberto.
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Another brasilian masterpiece from brasilian music in harmony, melody and LIRYCS is Construção by Chico Buarque. you can easily find it on YT with lyrics.
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March is not usually the rainiest month. March is the first month of autumn. The rainy season in the Brazilian south-east goes from October to March, so the "Waters of March" do mark the end of summer and the rainy season.
In my region (Minas Gerais south-est) March is usually the month when we have the second flood of the year (the first one is from late December to early January), the "guava flood".
Thanks a lot! É pau é pedra é o fim do caminho….
Tom Jobim and Cesar Camargo Mariano play the piano on that song
So here goes one more suggestion: get acquainted with Dorival Caymmi music. Also his family! A whole family of fantastic composers and singers of very very beautiful music.
You should check the french version of agua de março which was created with the helped of Tom Jobim himself who was a close friend of Georges Moustaki
Thank you. I'll add that to my listening list!
Jobim loved birdsong, what you called "sprinkle of rain", is actually the song of a bird, "matita perê" like the name of the album in Portuguese, or "matita pereira", as in the lyrics. There is a legend that says that a witch disguises herself as this bird.
People believe that to hear the song of this bird, is a bad sign
Waw! You really love our Brazilian music, and you know more about Tom Jobin than I do.
I love your accent singing "Aguas De Marc,o"😊
Eh Pau, eh pedra...
Yes, it is the ending of the summer and the water "rain", it is closing the season. ❤❤❤❤
Thank you!
David, could you pls make a bossa nova playlist for new listeners to the genre?
This song always makes me very sad. Thinking of Elis, that beautiful creative soul hurling toward inevitable death.
Another one lost.
Deixem o David uns 30 dias no Brasil e ele vai estar fazendo sua própria farofa.
Brincadeiras a parte, nesse video estamos falando de dois colossos: Tom Jobim e Elis Regina, que infelizmente já faleceram. Outros ainda estão ativos ainda que (quase?) octagenários como Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil e Ney Matogrosso.
Crescemos com essas musicas- e tantas outras. Estilos regionais. Samba
Good job with the Portuguese, by the way.
Thank you!
You'll get over it David, it's a great song no question, but check out Gershwin he was a master too. 😎
Brazil is so big, you can't really describe the climate for the whole country at once, there's too much variation. March used to be the rainiest month in Rio, where Bossa Nova was born and Jobim lived. Climate change kinda killed that, now it rains a lot in december and april, but march is pretty dry.
Thanks for the insight!
@@DavidAsherBrown Didn't mean to be pedantic hehe glad you appreciate it
great video, I know it's kinda cheezy being obsessed over gringos in contact with Brazilian music, but it is heartwarming!
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V-cool!
WHERE.. is yoUr version, pls?
Thank you! I haven't recorded this in full.
@@DavidAsherBrown (( it's been kinda difficult to get the appropriate vocalists out since around 2010.
IF..i were more young ah might consider starting...a rally, 'March for Marços', lol.
It was inspiring to be to able listen to this, maestro!
ThanK you and stay blessed pls.
Please react to Taiane by Armandinho, it is a Frevo, fast and energetic!
Have u heard Construção from Chico Buarque?
I would love for u to do an analysis from it
Yes, I have a video on that! 😉
Hello. Please react "Travessia" by Milton Nascimento. Só cool this song. Hi from Brazil.
Thank you. I have that on my suggestions list.
Some of the most interesting reworking of Brazilian music is happening in Catalonia the new epicentre of Jazz. And its happening with kids from The Sant Andreu Jazz Band. Here they pick up the pace on this one...
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then a few years later they are starting careers...
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Yes, I love these videos!
Good job singing those Portuguese verses.
Thank you!
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Do you know Djavan? I think you'll like it
I haven't listened to too much yet but that is very high in my listening list as I've gotten many requests for it.
Halfway through the song there’s that instrumental only part. When they start singing again, I imagine a lightning strike when they say the word ‘pau’. Listen for it: “É uma cobra, é um PAU… “
I love that!
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Also, do you know Adam Neely? He makes great content dissecting songs, technique, harmonies etc, and has a few great pieces on Brazilian music as well!
I don't know him personally but I've seen some of his videos.
Ah! And for a bit more jazzy brazilian music that is NOT Bossa Nova, listen to Ivan Lins. He is a multi Grammy nominee and Latin Grammy winner and has shared the stage with the likes of Lee Ritenour. His songs have been sung by Quincy Jones, George Benson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Barbra Streisand
Your explanation ofvrain is completely false. It is about the dry river bed that fills with rain water from the mountains in a rush and that enables everyone to live again. E.g. in a dry hot summer season (January February!!!), drinking water and irrigation of fertile land becomes scarce.
Way too much intro talk.
Thanks!