The scene in San Francisco is a remarkable experience in exploring the flavors of world cultures, and experiencing them in new blends. It’s a city that recognizes that there is no pure cultural form, not here, because everything comes from somewhere else, or is influenced by something else, due to the city’s taste for the cosmopolitan. One can find any number of cultural expressions here, where European, Asian, African, and Latin-descended populations have active participants in the city’s art community.
For any kind of music, then, there are practitioners here who specialize, and have done so for many years. This means that the locals, and any guest in a San Francisco hotel , can have access to stunning new work by the world’s top artists. There are plenty of folk bands, who play traditional popular songs from their particular vantage point, and there are also artists like DJ Carioca , who takes the traditional music of Brazil and sets it to electronic beats for electrifying performances that are impossible to sit still to.
The traditional music isn’t exactly traditional either. There are mixes of forro and samba that have already departed from the traditional in their Brazilian manifestations. The result is a music that is perhaps two or three times removed from its source, but the new vision under electronic guidance brings about the same life and energy as the originals, sweetening the present moment as it embraces and recuperates a living history.
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