Stay at home: Discs, books and DVDs to distract yourself in isolation – Crypto Dictation

O mail prepared a list with three opes discs, books and DVDs for you to be distracted during the period you stay at home fulfilling the measures in the fight against the coronavirus. Check out!CD

COPACABANA A DIVE IN THE FAILED LOVES

ZUZA MAN OF MELLO CONCEPT WITH VARIOUS ARTISTS. SESC SEAL, 14 TRACKS. AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS.

The album is a result of the book Copacabana: the trajectory of samba-cano (1929-1958), released in 2017 by Edies Sesc So Paulo and Editora 54. Organized and directed by Zuza Homem de Mello, the CD rene sambas-cano of 13 composers mentioned in the literary work re-recorded by artists of the new generation. The disc has well-known tracks, such as Copacabana (Joo de Barro and Alberto Ribeiro), which gives the album its name, re-recorded by Luciana Alves and Z Luiz Mazziotti; Revenge (Lupicnio Rodrigues), in the voice of Ayrton Montarroyos; and End of case (Dolores Duran), with verse by Luciana Alves. In addition, it has more B side songs, such as At dawn (Nilo Srgio), re-recorded by Toninho Ferragutti, and You don't know how to love (Dorival Caymmy, Hugo Lima and Carlos Guinle) by Luciana Alves. It is a great opportunity to relive a unique moment in the history of Brazilian music.

L HOUSE

DE MARCOS ALMEIDA. CIRIGUELA SOUND, 7 MSICAS. AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS.

Successor to Eu sarau, the album L de casa, by Marcos Almeida, marks the artist's return to the phonographic scenario after three years. In the project, the singer strolls through MPB and rock. Altogether, the disc has seven tracks, all written by the interpreter. Friendship, care and hope are some of the songs' themes. The life celebration sets the tone for What a wave, the only song in which Marcos has partners in both composition and interpretation. On the track, he is next to Baby do Brasil and Paulo Nazareth. The disc also has an instrumental track: Ns.

WAKE UP LOVE

DE LETRUX, LINIKER, LUEDJI LUNA, MARIA GAD AND XNIA FRANA. SESC SEAL, 18 TRACKS. AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS.

Inspired by the famous song by Chico Buarque, the album is the result of the union of five Brazilian artists, who, in common, have a strong social discourse. The quintet joined forces in a project conceived within Sesc So Paulo that had the traditional carnival balls as the north and resistance as the main theme. The artists divide their vocals into 18 tracks that dialogue with the current world, although most of them were written in the 1970s and 1980s. Open people (Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos), Let me tell (Ivan Lins and Ronaldo Monteiro de Souza), Extra (Gilberto Gil) and The want (Caetano Veloso). The disc ends with the strong No laziness to make a revolution, poem by Edgar.

DVD

Looking The first season (Looking, USA, 2014). Michael Lanan's TV series. With Jonathan Groff, Murray Bartlett, Frankie J. Alvarez, Russell Tovey, Ral Castillo and Lauren Weedman. HBO, drama, 200min. Not recommended for children under 18.

Achievements and failures by a group of young gay men move the whole plot, which takes place in San Francisco and divided, in the first season, into eight episodes. Patrick (Groff), a video game consultant, the protagonist, lost among the goals of his love conquests. Augustn is one of the most intense friends, but will soon move to Oakland. In the episodes, a routine of relationships built and shaken, systematically, that includes the company of Dom, a disillusioned waiter, among others, weighs heavily. While there is resignation en route to Augustn, Dom tries the chance of a lifetime by opening a restaurant with Portuguese food. Kevin, a new boss, and Richie, a somewhat disparaging Latino, will cheapen Patrick's head. In addition to good humor, with many acid shots, there is the solidity of a very committed cast.

Edgar Allan Poe in Cinema Volume 3. Edgar G. Ulmer, Lew Landers, Robert Florey and Gordon Hessler. With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Prince, Christopher Lee and David Manners. Four films created between 1932 and 1969, horror, DVD Verstil. Not recommended for children under 14 years.

On two albums, the films Black Cat, The Crow, The Murders on Rua Morgue and The Death of the Undead were reunited. All are classics adapted from the work of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). The star Bela Lugosi is in the cast of the first three works, while The Death of the Living Dead (1969) starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee. Expressionism weighs in the feature films The Black Cat and The Murders: the first shows a couple tortured by Satanists Hungarians, on the other hand, the focus is on experiments involving blood, women and monkeys. In The Crow, a surgeon is slaughtered for unrequited love. The collection also shows the plot of despair printed in a community tormented by a disfigured man.

Dumbo (USA, 2019). By Tim Burton. With Colin Farrell, Nico Parker, Eva Green, Finley Hobbins, Alan Arkin, Michael Keaton and Miguel Muoz Segura. Disney, drama, 112min. Free indicative rating.

For more than 80 years in the cinematographic imagination, Dumbo, Disney's classic animation, has been given a version in the flesh. The big-eared elephant promises to involve the Farrier family, formed by Holt, a war veteran, and his sons Milly and Joe. All are recruited by the businessman Max Medici to take care of the elephant that is scheduled to be a circus attraction. But the problem that abuse and bullying are part of his routine. Created by the duo Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl (illustrator), Dumbo originated in a book. In the original version of Disney's 1941 success, there was an Oscar win for best soundtrack.

BOOK

COURAGE

OF RAINA TELGEMEIER. INTRNSECA EDITORA, 224 PGINAS. AVERAGE PRICE: R $ 29.90 (PRINTED) AND R $ 24.90 (E-BOOK).

Phenomenon of current youth literature, Raina Telgemeier launches in Brazil the book Courage, which had 3.5 million copies sold in the United States. In more than 200 pages in comic book format, the author explores the discomfort of the protagonist, who bears the same name as the writer, as she matures. Fear and anxiety are part of the character's routine and the discussions covered in the work, since, every day, 10-year-old Raina has a new fear. To face this situation, she has the help of her parents and therapist. It is a sensitive book, full of humor and with a current debate, all of which is dedicated to children and adolescents.

ONIRA ASHES

BY UMBERTO MANNARINO. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ESDRAS GOMES. PLANET EDITOR, 256 pages. AVERAGE PRICE: R $ 41.90.

A name known on YouTube for his college entrance exams, the Brazilian Umberto Mannarino decided to move into another territory: the physical. From Asira de Onira is the first youtuber book on education that mixes fantasy and philosophical provocations. The work follows the story of a girl who lost her parents in a fire and is forced to rebuild life at her uncles' house, where she finds a secret portal to Onira, a world full of mysteries.

THE FOREST OF RETURNED FLOWERS

BY ALEXANDRE CALLARI. EDITORA PIPOCA & NANQUIM, 420 PGINA. AVERAGE PRICE: R $ 69.90.

Alexandre Callari's horror work appropriates H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Myths to create a Brazilian context. Set in the 1990s, the story shows a universe of hybrid environments, with spirits, evocations, mystical rituals, lost races and unimaginable beings. All this through the trajectory of Adam, who decides to take a sabbatical period. The protagonist's refuge is a picturesque city in the countryside of So Paulo. There, played in a plot of bizarre events involving not only the entire population, but also apocalyptic creatures of another dimension.

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