O-10, with respect, I think you may be mixing up a couple of things re the origins of Brazilian music and its African component.
**** Something had to be added to the Anacondas, Native Americans, plus the Portuguese music to make the music that is so common in Brazil today. Could it have come in on those slave ships I see on the horizon? Could it have sounded like this. ****
That is all true.....except the last sentence.
All those influences that you mention including the rhythmic component melded into what we recognize as Brazilian music. However, it is only the rhythmic component that has its origins in Africa. The melodic and harmonic components (and language) are very much Portuguese and never existed in Africa. So, no, one doesn’t find music that sounds like that in Africa for the simple reason that it never did....except the rhythmic component (in part). That rhythm, by itself, is a common African rhythm still found in African music and, by extension, in Afro-Latin music. A similar process, with some different and some similar ingredients became Jazz. Re the instruments used:
Instruments are always just a means to an end. The sound of the berimbau is a signature sound in Brazilian music and as you point out it had its origins in Africa; the “kalumbu”. It did not cease to exist in Africa when the slaves took it to Brazil and still exists and is used in African music.
https://youtu.be/wk5c-VsKn1E
https://youtu.be/u5uPqqZPrbM
Bottom line: Brazilian music is wonderful as you say. The sophistication of European melodic and harmonic tradition and the rhythm tradition of Africa.
**** Something had to be added to the Anacondas, Native Americans, plus the Portuguese music to make the music that is so common in Brazil today. Could it have come in on those slave ships I see on the horizon? Could it have sounded like this. ****
That is all true.....except the last sentence.
All those influences that you mention including the rhythmic component melded into what we recognize as Brazilian music. However, it is only the rhythmic component that has its origins in Africa. The melodic and harmonic components (and language) are very much Portuguese and never existed in Africa. So, no, one doesn’t find music that sounds like that in Africa for the simple reason that it never did....except the rhythmic component (in part). That rhythm, by itself, is a common African rhythm still found in African music and, by extension, in Afro-Latin music. A similar process, with some different and some similar ingredients became Jazz. Re the instruments used:
Instruments are always just a means to an end. The sound of the berimbau is a signature sound in Brazilian music and as you point out it had its origins in Africa; the “kalumbu”. It did not cease to exist in Africa when the slaves took it to Brazil and still exists and is used in African music.
https://youtu.be/wk5c-VsKn1E
https://youtu.be/u5uPqqZPrbM
Bottom line: Brazilian music is wonderful as you say. The sophistication of European melodic and harmonic tradition and the rhythm tradition of Africa.