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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Minusbaby's São Roque Performed Live

For most of us who don't live in California, New York City, Austin, or any other location of significance, this video is sort of an "Oh, so that's what a live chiptune show looks and sounds like" revelation.

Minusbaby put on this performance of São Roque -- a song written in and dedicated to a small city in São Paulo, Brasil, which he calls "one of the most beautiful places" he's ever lived in -- at a Liberty Lands Park, Philadelphia show held on August 8th, 2008.

The 08.08.08 edition of São Roque is available for download and streaming from 8bitcollective, but you can also grab the original song along with other four tracks from Minusbaby's Saudade for Beginners album for free at 8bitpeoples.

The album is described as aiming to "express life after the experience of saudade [a feeling of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost], a term often discussed pedantically by the academe, but best left to music and poetry as in bossa nova and samba."

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Hey, thanks for posting this - coincedentally, one day before I'm set to play another gig in Philly: http://www.8static.com; my first since the one in the video up there.

Thanks again! <):')

Rich

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