Fôrça Bruta (Brute Force) is the seventh studio album by Brazilian
singer-songwriter and guitarist Jorge Ben, recorded with the Trio
Mocotó band (pictured) and released by Philips Records in September
1970. It introduced an acoustic samba-based music that was mellower,
moodier, and less ornate than Ben's preceding work. In a largely
unrehearsed nighttime recording session, the singer improvised and
experimented with unconventional rhythmic arrangements, musical
techniques, and elements of soul, funk, and rock. Ben's lyrics explored
themes of romantic passion, melancholy, sensuality, and—in a departure
from the carefree sensibility of past releases—identity politics and
elements of postmodernism. A commercial and critical success, Fôrça
Bruta established Ben as a leading artist in Brazil's Tropicália
movement and pioneered a sound later known as samba rock. The album's
first American release came in 2007, the same year that Rolling Stone
Brasil named it the 61st greatest Brazilian music record.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B4r%C3%A7a_Bruta>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1861:
Vice President of the Confederate States of America Alexander
H. Stephens extemporaneously gave the "Cornerstone Speech", in which he
laid out the Confederacy's causes for declaring secession.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech>
1937:
A police squad, acting under orders from Governor of Puerto
Rico Blanton Winship, opened fire on demonstrators protesting the arrest
of Puerto Rican Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, killing 21
people and injuring 235 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponce_massacre>
1983:
In the West Bank, a number of Palestinian girls complained of
breathing difficulties due to strange odors, leading to accusations of
poison gas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_West_Bank_fainting_epidemic>
2006:
A man using a hammer smashed the statue of Phra Phrom in the
Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, and was subsequently beaten to death
by bystanders.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erawan_Shrine>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
carceral:
(formal or literary) Of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carceral>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them;
and the truth of truths is love.
--Philip James Bailey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_James_Bailey>
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