Media Highlights 2024 (Jan to Jun)

Music

I log most things on rateyourmusic.com. I also have a Spotify with some playlists.  

Jazz

• Bill Evans Trio - Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1959)

• Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby (1962)

• Bill Evans Trio - Portrait in Jazz (1960)

• Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass (1977)

MPB and Samba

• Dorival Caymmi - Canções praieiras (1954)

• Jorge Mautner - Mil e uma noites de Bagdá (1976)

• Jorge Ben - Jorge Ben (1969)

• Jorge Ben - Fôrça bruta (1970)

• Casuarina - MTV apresenta: Casuarina (2010)

• Sérgio Mendes - Brasileiro (1992)

• Martinho da Vila - Canta canta minha gente (1974)

• Elton Medeiros - Elton Medeiros (1973)

• Luedji Luna - Um corpo no mundo (2017)

• Gilberto Gil - Um Banda Um (1982)

• Gil e Jorge - Ogum Xangô (1975)

• Gal Costa - Água viva (1978)

• Gonzaguinha - Caminhos do coração (1982)

• Roberto Ribeiro - Roberto Ribeiro (1978)

• Jorge Ben - Bem-vinda amizade (1981)

• Leci Brandão - Leci Brandão (1985)

Rock and Pop

• Blondie - Autoamerican (1980)

• Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer (2018)

• Super Guitar Bros. - Ocarina of Time (2018)

• Chic - C'est Chic (1978)

• Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978)

Concerto / classical

• Berliner Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado / Martha Argerich - Piano Concerto No. 3 / Piano Concerto in G Major; Gaspard de la Nuit (1967)

• Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations (1982)

• Martha Argerich - Kinderszenen; Kreisleriana (1984)

Minimalism / ambient

• C418 - Minecraft: Volume Alpha (2011)

• Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)

• Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Social Network (2010)

• Steve Reich - Works: 1965-1995 (1997)

• Philip Glass - Glassworks (1982)

• Mats Bergström - Electric Counterpoint (2012)

Others

• Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future (2024)

• DJ Ramon Sucesso - Sexta dos crias (2023)

• FBC & VHOOR - Baile (2021)

• Héctor Lavoe - Comedia (1978)

• Racionais MC's - Sobrevivendo no inferno (1997)

Movies/TV

• 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968 

• Paddington 2 - 2017

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - 2023

• Everyone Says I Love You - 1996

• Stalker - 1979

• The Wind Rises - 2013

• Up in the Air - 2009

• Presto - 2008

• Whisper of the Heart - 1995

• Blow-Up - 1966

• Ghost World - 2001

• Michelangelo Eye to Eye - 2004

Books

• Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond