waliman4444 Posted April 29 Posted April 29 I saw a brief clip on FB with the Madison Scouts..The background music was a SAMBA treatment of WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND..I thought, "What a great concept for a show in DCI..All Brazilian based music"..So that led me to the above question...peace Quote
MikeN Posted April 29 Posted April 29 1995 Velvet Knights was the only one I can think of off the top of my head. Their show Harlequin Carnival was entirely the music of Brazilian drummer Airto Moreira. Played Lau Flora, Afrika and Starfish. Afrika in particular was a *jam,* I liked it a lot. Mike 1 Quote
OldSnareDrummer Posted April 29 Posted April 29 I think the only Brazillian music I recall that I actually knew was Brazillian and not some other Latin flavor was BD in early 1980s with their closer Dindi. 1 Quote
Lance Posted April 29 Posted April 29 15 minutes ago, MikeN said: 1995 Velvet Knights was the only one I can think of off the top of my head. Their show Harlequin Carnival was entirely the music of Brazilian drummer Airto Moreira. Played Lau Flora, Afrika and Starfish. Afrika in particular was a *jam,* I liked it a lot. Mike and of course VK is the answer to an anomalously specific question like this. 1 Quote
Jeff Ream Posted April 29 Posted April 29 26 minutes ago, MikeN said: 1995 Velvet Knights was the only one I can think of off the top of my head. Their show Harlequin Carnival was entirely the music of Brazilian drummer Airto Moreira. Played Lau Flora, Afrika and Starfish. Afrika in particular was a *jam,* I liked it a lot. Mike epic percussion feature 1 Quote
KVG_DC Posted April 29 Posted April 29 Yeah VK 95 comes to mind. I would LOVE for a corps to explore contemporary and historic Afrobeats and Afro-Caribbean catalogs. There's so much going on with polyrhythms and tonality not rooted in Western music theory meshing with more familiar musical construction that would be super for both creating challenging and captivating music books and exposing the marchers to a musicology they may not be as familiar with. 1 1 Quote
NewArpege Posted April 29 Posted April 29 In general, not much diversity in terms of full international music books. So many opportunities with middle eastern and south East Asian books/themes, but not many corps in recent history have tackled anything like that. 1 1 Quote
DAvery Posted May 1 Posted May 1 On 4/29/2026 at 3:01 PM, KVG_DC said: Yeah VK 95 comes to mind. I would LOVE for a corps to explore contemporary and historic Afrobeats and Afro-Caribbean catalogs. There's so much going on with polyrhythms and tonality not rooted in Western music theory meshing with more familiar musical construction that would be super for both creating challenging and captivating music books and exposing the marchers to a musicology they may not be as familiar with. When I was a band director I did a show one year entitled La Musica de Cuba. We started the show with everyone playing a west African drum beat and then went into a pasodoble to represent the combination of African and Spanish music in Cuban music. 1 2 Quote
waliman4444 Posted May 5 Author Posted May 5 I think the Cadets in 2017 used tap dancing during their program using platforms..I can see a similar scenario with this music style and rhythmic dance done on miked platforms...thanks for the video!..peace Quote
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