Episode 109: Return of Summer Patch

Today I’ve put together an episode to honor Labor Day weekend, the symbolic last weekend of summer before we all turn our attention back to full productivity at work and school. This is the official summer last blast weekend, so I am turning once again to Brazil, the land of perpetual summer; or, at least, perpetual summer music. For me, samba joins reggae as the most summer appropriate music in the world. And don’t forget that Carnaval, which is the biggest time of the year for samba music in Brazil, corresponds to fall months in the Southern hemisphere, not early spring. So this time of year is seasonally appropriate for samba in the northern hemisphere. Next week the Tropicology playlist will start dipping into some of those fall moods... for now, however, we continue marching to a summer beat, Tropicology is not done with summer yet!