« Begilufin » Berlin Live: Brazil! (#1) #52
Dan & Ziv, Jorge Ben, Wilson Simonal, João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso and more.
Begilufin takes your ears on a wild swerving skateboard ride through the sounds of Brazil! An hour of dizzyingly diverse sounds from way back then until two days after tomorrow, a dive into the technicolor jungle of the unstoppable soul of Brazil where music never stops evolving. Umbabarauma!
Begilufin
Begilufin is an hour long radio show broadcast live twice a month from the heart Berlin on the station Pi Radio. On Begilufin we play a wild, confusing mess of international sounds, stretching from the birth of recorded music to something we heard two days ago. We do our best to ignore the normal, accentuate the weird, and ignore borders, boundaries and time-zones. Each show revolves around a central theme and then we surprise each other (and you, dear listener) with our selections live on air.
Since you ask, ‘Begilufin’ is a Hebrew word meaning intoxicated, inebriated, drunk, sozzled or smashed - a perfect description of the delirious off-centre mix of crazed music we like to spin on the show or indeed the effect it might have on your ears.
Begilufin was created by Ziv Lode in 2010. Ziv was joined by Dan Abbott a couples of years later after a chance meeting in a kindergarten playground revealed a mutual love of the music of Erkin ‘The Turkish Hendrix’ Koray.