With tangos and Ellingtonia under his belt, this ever-curious occasional crossover classicist takes another break from the Berlin Staatsoper, the Chicago Symphony, and Bayreuth to dabble in an unfamiliar (to him) idiom. Though the results are about as spontaneous as a sunrise, this collection does cover a wide range of brief bits of Braziliana from inevitable tunes by Ary Barroso, Luiz Bonfá, and Antonio Carlos Jobim to songs by Milton Nascimento and Caetano Veloso and classical selections by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Darius Milhaud.

♪ Na língua iorubá, xirê significa dança, brincadeira e alegria. Xirê designa ainda a festa do Candomblé com saudações aos orixás. No dicionário de Carlinhos Brown, xirê também é Carnaval. Daí o título do álbum Pop xirê, lançado pelo artista baiano na quinta-feira, 16 de fevereiro, véspera da folia, via Candyall Music, com 13 músicas autorais compostas em português, espanhol e iorubá. No Carnaval de Brown, Pop xirê é disco que saúda tanto o timbau – instrumento de percussão com que o tribalista pôs a Timbalada na roda no Carnaval de 1991 – quanto os orixás, pedindo passagem para a alegria. Capa do álbum 'Pop xirê', de Carlinhos Brown Fernando Torquato Antecedido pelos singles Espero Yara (2022) e Marinheiro do amor (2023), lançados em 22 de dezembro e em 2 de fevereiro, com músicas compostas por Brown com Thiago Pugas e Jeffrei, respectivamente, o álbum Pop xirê abre com a saudação Mojuba (Carlinhos Brown), segue com Aglomera (Carlinhos Brown, Edmundo Carôso e Jorge Zarath) – música gravada com o filho do cantor, Daniel de Freitas – e deságua em Abaum coquê (Aparição) (Carlinhos Brown), faixa gravada por Brown com a cantora baiana Mariene de Castro.

Brazil Classics 2: O Samba is a 1989 compilation CD from the Luaka Bop label. It consists of samba variations from Brazil, compiled by David Byrne of the Talking Heads.

Brazil Classics 3: Forro Etc. is a 1991 compilation CD released by the Luaka Bop. For this edition, they explore the different aspects of a style of Brazilian music called forro. This was compiled by David Byrne of the Talking Heads.

Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical is a 1989 compilation CD from the Luaka Bop. It consists of a wide range of Brazilian music, compiled by David Byrne of the Talking Heads.

A compilation CD sampler found in an issue of Songlines magazine in 2003. The world music sampler features the richness of Brazilian music by exploring bossa nova, samba, and more.

Songs From The Tin is the 2000 debut album by Patrick Forge and Chris Franck, known collectively as Da Lata. This was released on the Palm Pictures label and this is the promo edition.

Tanto Tempo Remixes is the 2001 remix album by Bebel Gilberto. It features remixes of songs from her debut album, Tanto Tempo, by the likes of Da Lata, Peter Kruder, King Britt, Rae & Christian, Mario Caldato Jr. and many more.

Pure Brazil: Samba Soul Groove is a 2004 compilation CD of Brazilian music released through Universal Music Latino. Some of the artists featured include Caetano Veloso, Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben, Gilberto Gill, Gal Costa, and many more.