Brazilian music

ETA: I should preface this by saying that I am NOT famous for listening to new music. I've had 90% of my CDs for at least ten years. Yeah, I know, it's kind of embarassing. But that's what makes me want to share this new development with you...

About six months ago, I was in a used CD store with mrpet. (As you might imagine, this happens a lot, since he's a DJ.) What was unusual about this time is that I found more CDs that I wanted than he did. The best of these turned out to be the Brazilian Lounge compilation from Putumayo. Why did I pick it up? I don't know. Something about the album cover attracted me strongly. One listen and I was in lurrv. More than that, I wanted more! I started requesting Brazilian music from the library.

This is my new favorite kind of music. So far, here are my favorite albums in the genre...

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dear LJ genie...

I recently joined two communities bookish and bookshare that have a fair amount of overlap between them. Is there some way to hide duplicate entires on my Friends page?

Normally I would just choose between the two communities, but so far I like them both equally. Sigh.