大咖福利影院

Hey alexanderstephenlange,

Thank you for starting this quite interesting thread. 馃槈

I would like to see members' responses on that.

Cheers,

Cheryl

大咖福利影院 team

07/15/26 @alexanderstephenlange.聽 We live in the Centro Hist贸rico of Manaus, and there is music in the air every evening and all weekend, all the time.聽 I love it ... but we live on the 17th Floor -- 19 stories above the street thanks to topography and the vagaries of the Brazilian floor numbering system -- so that undoubtedly helps.聽

One of the few good results of the covid pandemic was that scarlet macaws, who had abandoned this part of the city decades ago, recolonized the Centro Hist贸rico and we now have a breeding population of about eight birds.聽 They're early risers and very noisy, but it's still wonderful to hear them making their morning rounds -- and to see them pass, if I run to the window fast enough.聽 Also very noisy but welcome are the flocks of Green Amazons who roost in the trees around sunset, and sound to me for all the world like crowds of anxious first graders who just got released for recess.

Other daily sounds I enjoy:聽 the street vendors selling things, the "sucateiros" calling out to buy scrap metal, the horns of the riverboats entering and leaving the port.

Daily sounds I could do without:聽 motorcycles that have proliferated as gasoline prices have risen, especially the seemingly hundreds of them without mufflers of any kind.

What about the rusted out grey VW Brasilia lata velo with duct tape and a black garbage bag where the back window used to be, with a loudspeaker strapped to the roof while driving down the street with the words "Pamonha, Pamonha, Pamhona, temos Pamonha aqui !!!" blaring out in every direction at 100 decibels !!!!

Yes, it was real.

I love cities and their noises. Sound asleep at 500AM I wake up slowly to the PM battalion doing their workout in the rooftop gym next to my 10th floor apartment聽 (Um, Dois, Um Dois) then the buses grow in number, and finally the motoboys start getting busy in the street. Love it !!

The only time it is truly quiet is when Flamengo or the Selecao is playing a serious and very important game. The sindico in my apartment is a Flamenguista like me, and during a game when they score you can hear him yell GOOOOOAAAAALLLL from 3 floors above me, and air horns, as well as more yelling everywhere on our block. I find Rio far noisier than when I stay in Sao Paulo for example, don't know why. My wife hates the noise regardless KKKKKK.

LOL! There are "good" noises and "bad" noises.

I kinda like the pamonha guy. We live among corn people; Xerem, canjica, cozido ou assado, munguz谩 and bolo de fub谩!!

.... but I agree that the roaming loudspeaker advertising, usually done in some descrepit vehicle no longer worthy of regular street use, that gets on the nerves.

I also dislike the incessant dog bark that plays out over the sound of any/everything else forcing one to close windows to the marvelous breeze that makes airconditioning unnecessary.

Neighbor parties are somewhat acceptabe given that they tone it down after midnight (law says 10p.m.) and it isn't that drunk-speak and unpleasant cackle of overdrunk people that should just go to bed.

My FAVORITE "noises" are night sounds in the rural area at night.

1. Burrowing owls:
2. Common Potoo:
3. Gray-necked Wood-Rail:
4. Common Pauraque:
5. Clanking goat and cow bells.

Or at the seaside on a secluded beach - that lapping of the waves on the sandy beach..... or the guy selling cavaco chin锚s who clanks out a rythm on a triangle.... or the fruit vendor calling out what types of fresh produce he's selling from his push-cart.

Once I spent time in Ilheus and the bottled gas distributor had the most eirie electronic "bell" I've ever heard. It was enchanting.

There are good noises and bad noises - but yes, Brazilians are loud.

mberigan

I will always remember and never forget the haunting melancholy sound of the Common Potoo, the Uruta煤 or Biemparado Com煤n, which I first heard in the middle of the city Cali in Colombia around 2am.聽 The ones in Colombia seem to have a slightly different call, usually 4-5 descending notes, always sad sounding.聽 But definitely a good noise!

Colombians are often quite loud, too LOL...

@abthree

> it's still wonderful to hear

Thank you, abthree, for your delightfully poetic story of the wonderful sounds!

I like the birdsong here in the morning of so many different types I have no idea about!

But yeah, motos and 肠补尘颈苍丑玫别蝉.... I could do without them!