I first discovered Milton Nascimento at Central Library, 1015 N. Quincy St., ArlingtonVa.22201 back in the mid-90’s. I was working part-time as a teacher’s-assistant at the YMCAChildCareDevelopmentCenter, a preschool, and Central Library was within walking distance. I prosaically borrowed albums, CD formatted, by unbeknownst artist and serendipitously checked-out one of Milton’s albums. My first listen through my last, spanning at least 12 years, have always been with delectation.
Milton Nascimento was born in Rio. Nascimento’s White adoptive parents brought him to Tres Pontas, a small town in the state of Minas Gerais, when he was two. His mother sang in a choir and at local music festivals, often accompanied by Milton. Nascimento's father was an electronics tinkerer, math teacher, and tersely ran a local radio station where a young Milton sporadically worked as a DJ. He later began singing as a teenager. When he was 19, Nascimento moved to the capital Belo Horizonte and began singing wherever and whenever the occasion afforded. MN finally caught a break when the pop singer Elis Regina recorded one of his songs, "Canção do Sal," in 1966. Regina got him a showcase on a popular Brazilian TV program, and after performing at Brazil's International Song Festival the following year, his career was launched. Courage is Milton Nascimento's first album for North American ears, recorded at Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey under the watchful eye and discerning ear of Creed Taylor, is a masterpiece, a gorgeously executed tour through his early songs. Backed beautifully by Eumir Deodato's lush orchestrations and a clutch of sidemen from the Taylor stable (including Herbie Hancock, Airto Moreira, and Hubert Laws). Courage finds Nascimento at a time before tropicalismo, when he latched onto the tail end of the bossa nova movement and quickly became one of its most inspired performers and songwriters.
Out of respect for Reynaldo Ojeda* pull up a prosthetic fork-shaped abutment and let the music galvanize you to enthrallment.
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The group name Alphabet Soup is explained as follows:
The communicative rudiments of language starts with the alphabet. The alphabet is a set of letters and/or other characters written or otherwise (oral-tradition, etc.) arranged in a customary order to convey knowledge or inform. The "Soup" was our music. Together the compliment of both words (alphabet) and music rendered the EP: Sunny Day In Harlem.
Holden Caulfield is a fictional character created by J. D. Salinger. Holden is the teenage protagonist of Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye ; Holden also appears in some of Salinger's other literary works.
Physically, Holden is gangly and tall. He is also described as having several gray hairs on the right side of his head. These two qualities contribute to Caulfield's appearing to be older than his age, yet his mannerisms and behavior contradict that impression. One of Caulfield's most striking and quintessential qualities is his powerful revulsion for "phony" human qualities. Qualities such as narcissism, hypocrisy, and superficiality embody Holden's concept of phoniness; and, unfortunately, Holden is adept at realizing these qualities in other people. This serves to bolster Holden's cynicism and consequently contributes to his mistrust of other people. Interestingly, despite Holden's strong disdain for phony qualities, he exhibits some of the qualities that he abhors, thereby making him a somewhat tragic character.
Caulfield is the second of four children, with two brothers, D.B. and Allie, and one sister, Phoebe. (There is also a second sister, Viola, who is briefly mentioned in the short story "I'm Crazy," but is never referred to again.) Allie is deceased at the time of The Catcher in the Rye. Their parents are left unnamed in Salinger's works.
Born into a life of wealth and privilege, Caulfield looks down upon the elite world he occupies. He questions the values of his class and society and sometimes appears to oppose conventions merely for the sake of opposition. He is widely considered to be the template for the "angry young man" archetype.
Accordingly, my man "2-Liter" considers my acerbic critiques a "hate" of everything and my "can't fuck with me B!!!" dancing rants didn't/ don't exactly raise the bar thusly "2-Liter" has thereupon labeled me the consummate Holden Caulfield of the east-coast.
GED
To MC/Emcee is to move the crowd through master of ceremony microphone control.
GED is a MC/Emcee. GED is an abbreviation for Gorilla Ed. GED has previously performed under following names: "Nubian", “Low Key”, “Ed Lowe”, “Lowe” and currently Gorilla Ed/GED
GED is, most recently, featured on the first two mixtapes of the Shine Mixtape/ XM 66 Raw series: Volume 1, hosted by Jim Jones and Nore and Volume 2, hosted by Nas and Swizz Beats.
