I’m in Paris this week, to talk about reductio proofs in the Prior Analytics to the PhilMath Intersem colloquium. So once again, inspired by my whereabouts, I figured it would be nice to post something French-Brazilian at BMoF this week, and once again Chico Buarque comes to the rescue! For the 1973 movie Joanna Francesa (where the Joanna in question is no one other than Jeanne Moreau), he composed a song with the same name, which is an absolute masterpiece; in particular, the mixture of Portuguese and French in the lyrics is pretty epic.
I’m posting two versions here: first a video containing extracts from the movie, with Jeanne herself singing the song, and then Chico Buarque. (Apparently, there is a record version of the song sung by Jeanne Moreau, but the link isn’t working for me.) Then a version by the amazing singer Badi Assad, where she displays yet again her unbelievable abilities with ‘body percussion’. And finally a beautiful version from the great harmonica player Toots Thielemans’ album Brazil Project (1992), again with Chico Buarque in the vocals. (Btw, this is a great album, which entertained me for much of 1993 and thereabouts.)
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