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Club Swei w/ Shwa La

Hip hop Bossa Country Soul Fado
Host: Schwa La

This month's episode of Club Swei explores the theme of saudade, a Portuguese concept meaning "the intimate feeling and mood caused by the longing for something absent being missed". Shwa La ran selections from Brazilian bossa nova to hip hop that touched on this feeling.


Tracklist

1 Sodade - Cesária Évora
2 Fado Loucura - Ana Moura
3 Saudades do Brasil em Portugal (Live 1968) - Vinicius de Moraes
4 Chega De Saudade - Joāo Gilberto
5 Manhã De Carnaval - Astrud Gilberto
6 Saudade Vem Correndo - Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfá
7 Ela Partiu - Tim Maia
8 Tezeta - Mulatu Astatke
9 All Youre Going to Want to Do is Go Back There - The Caretaker
10 Libets Delay - The Caretaker
11 I’ll Be Seeing You (Live 1956) - Billie Holiday
12 My Lovely Elizabeth - S.E. Rogie
13 Iwe Kusidio - Matthew Jeffries
14 Take Me Home, Country Roads (Live 1975) - Toots and the Maytals
15 Street Fighter - Frank Ocean
16 Songs For Women - Frank Ocean
17 Footsteps - Vanilla
18 Madeira II - Hi-Fidel & DJ Crucial
19 A Life In The Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete) - Outkast
20 Runnin’ - The Pharcyde
21 Da Art of Storytellin’ Pt.1 - Outkast
22 Take It Back - Swindle (Feat D Double E & Kiko Bun)
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