![]() What was your knowledge of samba before meeting Rodrigo? So I saved up, and next holiday, off I went with a borrowed camera, and a bunch of new friends to hang with. Then his manager got on his case and he had to go back to Rio to finish off his album, leaving me with an itch to get over to Rio and see for myself what the samba scene was like over there. Over the next few months, my living room became an almost permanent roda, with visiting musicians from Rio sleeping on the sofa, and loads of new Brazilian friends coming round for big lunch parties that turned into all night jam sessions. He sent me an email to ask me if I could help him find somewhere to stay, and I suggested he move into my spare room. We got on well, and a few months later he decided he wanted to come and live in London for six months. I used to run a club night in an old toilets in Shepherd’s Bush with Sam Sutton of the Fontanas, and one week we had a samba musician called Rodrigo Lampreia come to play as part of his mini tour of the UK. Watch the film below and also read about its making and Inman’s “samba journey” in the interview underneath: ![]() ![]() As soon as he got the chance he headed to Rio to discover the samba scene there, a trip which is documented in this great film, an intimate and personal portrait of samba that shows to what extent the music has a part in everyday Brazilian life. Sparked off by a chance encounter with a samba musician in London, he soon found his home taken over by rodas, all-night jams and samba sing-alongs, and a undoubted connection with Rio’s most famous rhythm had been struck. O Danado do Samba (translating as “That Damn Samba”) was a labour of love for Inman. Charlie Inman – the co-director behind Gilles Peterson’s Brasil Bam Bam Bam: The Story Of Sonzeira documentary – recently put together a 30-minute documentary on samba and we’re very proud to be bringing it to you all as a Sounds and Colours exclusive. ![]()
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