Furiosa mp3's

A couple mp3s from Salgueiro last night.
(I have a slow connection for uploads so can only post short snippets right now, not the whole recording)

Salgueiro bateria entrance
The crowd gives such a yell because we'd been standing in the rain AN HOUR AND A HALF for them to finally get started.
(I missed the very beginning of the first repique call, btw.

The "Furiosa" break
All the hollering in the middle is coming from the bateria guys. In addition to the Furiosa yell, of course.

The fireworks break
This is where the bateria knelt down and they set off giant sparklers right in the middle of the bateria.
(The hissing is the sparklers)
After the sparklers, when you hear the surdos, the surdo players were kneeling with their drums on the ground (sideways, heads at 90degrees to ground) in front of them. They'd brace one side of the drum with a knee and hit the other side.


drum junkie notes:
The paradinha that they started with is the same one I heard at Mocidade last year:
Two-and-three.
Two-and-three-ee, ah-four-and-ONE.
(then the bateria repeats it all).

It's a new take on the classic paradinha that starts:
Two-and-three. Four-and-one.
Two-and-three-ee, ah-four-and-ONE.

You mighta always thought that whole thing starts on a "one-and-two", didn't you? But it's very clear from how the three repiques come out of it, and from how they start the next paradinha later down the line, that they feel like the bateria ended on a ONE. Which means the whole thing started on a "two-and-three". (It was also damn clear from where I stood, where I could SEE the lead guy yelling "Um, dois, tres, quat', um!" to the other two repique players. Yup, they count themselves off, and at the top of their lungs, because all 3 guys have to hit the call cold, and damn they'd better be in sync or they'll get crucified.).

All of which makes sense because a "Two-and-three" is really a very samba sort of thing to do.